PKP began as a research initiative in which faculty and students investigated ways of improving public access to scholarly publications, with the software development following shortly thereafter, as the resulting studies of open science, related economic and legal models, metadata, social media, and historical precedents have continued to inform the building of innovative open source platforms and tools.
Metadata for Everyone
OJS Global Usage Tracking
Open Science in a Post-Pandemic World
Journal Integrity Initiative (JII)
Sharing Health Research
- Fleerackers, A., Nehring, L., Maggio, L. A., Enkhbayar, A., Moorhead, L., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data. Scientometrics.
- Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Doctors on Youtube: exploring the uses and gratifications of health vloggers. SocArXiv.
- Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). “Doctors” or “Influencers”? Physicians’ Presentation of Self in Health Vlogs. SocArXiv.
- Moorhead, L. L., Fleerackers, A., & Maggio, L. A. (2022). “It’s my job”: A qualitative study of the mediatization of science within the scientist-journalist relationship. bioRxiv.
- Fleerackers, A., Moorhead, L., Maggio, L. A., Fagan, K., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Science in motion: A qualitative analysis of journalists’ use and perception of preprints. bioRxiv.
- Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M., Moorhead, L., Ahmed, R., & Alperin, J. P. (2021). Communicating scientific uncertainty in an age of COVID-19: an investigation into the use of preprints by digital media outlets. Health Communication, 1–13.
- Riedlinger, M., Fleerackers, A., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Guenther, L., Joubert, M., & Osman, K. (2021). The conversation, ten years on: assessing the impact of a unique scholarly publishing initiative. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
Copyright Reform
- Copyright’s Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science, MIT Press, 2023. (read open access here).
- An Open Letter: Request for Information on the National Health Institute (NIH) Plan to Enhance Public Access to the Results of NIH-Supported Research, Notice Number: NOT-OD-23-091.
- cOAlition S
- Toward Responsible Publishing: Seeking input from the research community to establish a community-based scholarly communication system. October, 2023.
- cOAlition S statement: “cOAlition S supports efforts to improve copyright framework for research”. March, 2023.
- Slaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine
- A Second Marrakesh Miracle? March, 2023.
- Learning to Campaign for Copyright Reform. January, 2023.
- Two Senses of a Right to Research. November, 2022.
Science reported in the News
Open Data for Development
Open science in biomedicine
Payments for course readings
Science reported in the News
Open Data for Development
Open science in biomedicine
Payments for course readings
Research Resources
In its commitment to open science, PKP is making available the data it collects annually, with the publishing platform operator’s consent, from the publishing software beacon, which includes publishing and indexing information from OJS, OMP, and OPS installations. Data is made available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication.
- Khanna, S., Raoni, J., Smecher, A., Alperin, J.P., Ball, J., Willinsky, J. (2022). Details of publications using software by the Public Knowledge Project, V3. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCZNVY
- Khanna, S., Raoni, J., Smecher, A., Alperin, J.P., Ball, J. (2021). Details of publications using software by the Public Knowledge Project, V1. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCZNVY
This data has been used to plot the usage of OJS: