Open Monograph Press
The full, end-to-end solution for publishing books. Publish your monographs and edited volumes with full metadata for worldwide dissemination and discovery. Manage submissions and conduct internal and external reviews in a single, intuitive workflow.
Everything a book publisher needs
Submit
Invite authors to submit to your press through a configurable, step-by-step submission wizard.
Review
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to keep everyone on schedule.
Publish
Publish books to your own website in PDF, ePub, or any publication format, alongside supplementary materials.
Distribute
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google Scholar, full ONIX creation, and OAI-PMH metadata harvesters.
Key Features
An all-in-one platform with the power to support modern book publishing for a global audience.
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Flexible editorial workflow
Run a streamlined publishing pipeline with editors, copyeditors, translators and production assistants.
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Stay on schedule
Track every submission and find out quickly when editors and reviewers are falling behind.
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Peer review
Conduct internal and external review rounds, with tools to help you find the right reviewer every time.
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Your books, your brand
Create a custom theme for your press or customize our responsive default theme to fit your brand.
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Rich publication metadata
Distribute book and chapter metadata in machine-readable formats like ONIX and OAI-PMH.
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Global scholarly infrastructure
Integrate with established and emerging industry standards such as DOIs, ORCID authentication and ROR affiliations.
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Multiple languages
Born in multilingual Canada, our software allows you to publish books in one, two or as many languages as you need.
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Own your data
No lock-ins or walled gardens. Use import/export tools to take your data anywhere, even to a different platform.
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Sell books
Accept online or offline payments and sell books directly through your catalog.
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Track your success
View detailed book-by-book statistics and monitor editorial metrics like response times and reviews per submission.
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Audio/video and datasets
Publish audio and video files, research datasets, and supplementary material alongside full-text PDFs, ePubs, HTML files, and more.
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Preserve the scholarly record
Post new editions and keep a record of old editions with versioned metadata.
“OMP is a comfortable open source solution for open access publishing, developed by a dedicated team of developers. Especially convenient is the possibility to extend the software via plugins.”
— Dr. Maria Effinger, Head of Department Publication Services, Heidelberg University Library
How It Works
Hosting & Other Services
Want to focus on publishing and have the technical work of installation, hosting, troubleshooting, and upgrades taken care of? PKP offers complete hosting and support plans for OJS, OMP, and OPS, plus training, consulting, and custom development.
Get Help & Support
There’s plenty of help when you need it. Learn what’s available from PKP and our community of thousands of scholarly communications professionals.
Training
Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training resources, including how to set up a press and best practices in publishing.
Documentation
Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software, along with helpful guides on how to get indexed, keeping your software up-to-date and secure, and a whole lot more.
Community Forum
Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our community asks and answers questions, and shares tips on how to achieve their publishing goals.
The PKP Story
For more than two decades, PKP has helped researchers, scholarly societies, and academic libraries take back control of the scholarly publishing in the service of they and their colleagues’ work.
Why Open Source
The principles and practices of open source software enable everyone to participate in open access publishing, because scholarly infrastructure should be as open as the science.