PKP shares open documentation updates for PKP software users including updated Quick Submit Guide for Back Issues, PKP Help Guide, and DOI Plugin Guide. Are you a PKP software user? If so, you may be interested in these updates from PKP Docs, your source for user guides, developer documentation, and publishing tips.
PKP showcases Canada Student Journal Forum participants and recaps the February 20 – 22 2024 event. Student publishing, libraries, infrastructure, and community are at the heart of a unique and vibrant scholarly publishing ecosystem. This year marked the 9th annual Canada Student Journal Forum, bringing together students and library experts across Canada.
Following the sale of PeerJ, PKP reiterates that its design goes hand in hand with its commitment to free and open software forever. The sale of the open access publisher PeerJ to Taylor & Francis is an opportunity to remind our communities of users why the Public Knowledge Project is not for sale and will not be sold.
PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free, community-driven software, Open Monograph Press (OMP). UPDATE: This post was updated March 6th, 2025 for #OEWeek25. Open Education Week is an annual, global event dedicated to advocating for access to and reach of education.
PKP has Diamond in its DNA — in this blogpost PKP summarizes its article on “The Platform Developers in a Federated Model of Diamond Open Access” and expands on bibliodiversity and inclusion considerations. There is a palpable buzz in our world around the concept of Diamond Open Access (OA)—a model of OA where journals are free from access fees for readers and Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors.
This post was originally published on Coalition Publica’s website here. Save the date — you are invited to the Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals on June 19th, 2024, at McGill University.
PKP and the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) invite scholarly publishing communities to the PKP Minnesota Sprint, with an LPC pre-conference event, May 13 – 14, 2024. We are thrilled to announce that the Public Knowledge Project is partnering with the Library Publishing Coalition, aligning our events with the eagerly anticipated, in-person, Library Publishing Forum 2024 at the University of Minnesota.
You are invited to join PKP for a free online webinar on February 27, 2024 at 9 am PT to learn about, and to think more maximally about PIDs and metadata in your OJS publications! Event Description Persistent Identifiers, commonly referred to as PIDs, play a pivotal role in fostering trust within scholarly publications while concurrently enhancing publication discoverability and accessibility.
PKP announces the first 2024 Sprint and Pre-Conference event, happening Monday, May 13, 2024 and Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The Public Knowledge Project is thrilled to announce our inaugural Sprint of 2024, marking our first PKP Sprint in North America since 2019!
This post on PKP’s year in review and event recap is part of PKP’s inaugural newsletter issue, “Archipelago”. As a community-driven project, the Public Knowledge Project finds great value in participating in and hosting in-person and online events to get closer and share experiences with community members worldwide.
This post, an update to PKP’s Membership structure, is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”. The Public Knowledge Project’s most widely used software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), is the backbone of over 34,000 journals worldwide, amounting to over 8 million published articles. The OA Diamond Journals Study shows estimates of OJS being used by 60% of the sampled journals.