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PKP Sustainability StudyLaura and John Arnold Foundation, 2017 – 2018
John Willinsky, Brian Owen, Juan Pablo Alperin, James MacGregor, Alec Smecher, Kevin Stranack
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Open Access Publishing Cooperative Feasibility StudyMacArthur Foundation, 2015 – 2017John Willinsky, Kamran Naim, Smith Esseh, and Kevin StranackThe Open Access Publishing Cooperative Feasibility Study, in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and other important stakeholders, will explore the feasibility of establishing publishing cooperatives that bring together libraries, journals, scholarly societies, presses, and others as a financially sustainable open access model for peer-reviewed scholarly publishing. Over two years, the study will: (a) gathering financial data from journals and libraries to establish current investment levels in professional quality publishing; (b) consulting with stakeholders – research libraries, scholarly journals, scholarly societies, presses, funding agencies, and others – about perceived gains and risks of a co-op approach to open access funding, governance, and structure; and (c) develop and assess open source co-op publishing infrastructures for running pilot studies to evaluate impact on scholarly and public quality of this approach to open access publishing. If the results of the first three stages show sufficient promise, the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study plans to hold a culminating “constitutional assembly” for stakeholders in scholarly publishing. The assembly will apply what has been learned in the study to forge the principles and structures by which such cooperatives might constitute a means of bringing about sustainable and global open access to research and scholarship. |
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Smarter Scholarly Texts for Cross-Platform Publishing, Text-mining, and IndexingMediaX, 2013 – 2014MediaX, 2015 – 2016.CA Community Investment Program, 2015 – 2016Alex Garnett and Juan Pablo AlperinThis initiative is developing an open source XML software system that largely automates the parsing, tagging, conversion and rendering (in HTML, PDF, ePub, etc.) of content. It will not only improve the affordability of scholarly publications, it will improve the rendering of these texts in a more readable form across multiple formats; it will add to the text-mining, indexing, and rights-management capacities in working with these texts. This will enable journals, as well as small businesses providing journal support services, to establish a much more widely standard for scholarly publishing, enabling the rise of new apps and other means for taking advantage of this markup standard in teaching, research, and public use. |
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Integrating OMP and OJS through PKP Web LibraryPublic Knowledge Project, 2013-15Alec Smecher, Bruno Beghelli, Jason NugentPKP maintains related but separate applications implementing workflows for conference papers, journal articles, and scholarly monographs. In refining these workflows we have thoroughly characterized the common areas of overlap. In the interests of elegantly addressing the common scholarly mechanisms underlying these workflows, and as a matter of expediency in ensuring our applications share a single, nimble implementation of each of these mechanisms, we are working to extend the capabilities of our existing PKP Web Application Library to include higher-level constructs like peer reviews, audits, and record-keeping, in addition to the web application concerns it has previously addressed. It is our hope that in the future each application will become more like a specialized configuration of a common scholarly toolkit rather than an entirely different piece of software, allowing the publisher to mix and match attributes of different types of publication rather than maintaining a separate silo for each. |
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PKP Education ProjectUSAid, 2013 – 2014Kevin Stranack, Smith Esseh, Joe Haigh, and Max AlexanderThe PKP Education Project launched on April 1st, 2013. Work is being done on developing a MOOC like course structures: for example on Editorial Skills (in general) and OJS for Editors, and more. The PKP School platform on WordPress currently has a course teaching the use of OJS for journal managers. We intend to provide training and support that can be accessed when needed, in both ‘just in time’, as well as ‘just in case’ scenarios. |
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Helping Journals to Upgrade Data Publication for Reusable ResearchSloan, 2012-14Gary King (Harvard University) Alex Garnett, James MacGregorThe task is to build a Dataverse network plugin for Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP), while having journals demonstrate the publication of data sets leading to replication studies. |
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California Digital Library: User Interface/Experience review of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.0 alphaCalifornia Digital Library, 2013Rachael Hu, Gregory ShapiroThe California Digital Library became one of the Public Knowledge Project’s first formal development partners in 2012. As a major part of this commitment, CDL undertook a comprehensive user interface/experience review of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.0 alpha in 2013. The review concentrated on five major workflow areas:
PKP will use the CDL report to guide the ongoing UI/UX refinement of the first, and subsequent, production releases of the OJS 3.X software line. |
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Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and HumanitiesCanadian Foundation for Innovation, 2008-2010Rick Kopak, Rowland Lorimer, John Maxwell, Ray Siemens, Richard Smith, John WillinskyThe Synergies initiative created a national network for the production, storage, and access to digitized knowledge, including peer-reviewed journal articles, datasets, theses, conference proceedings, and scholarly books produced in Canada. OJS played a major support role in Synergies, being used by four of the five principal Synergies partners. |