“Inclusion in the DOAJ: A panel discussion” is brought to you in partnership with Coalition Publica , this June 28th, 2023, 10 AM CDT. About 42% of the journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have been identified as using PKP’s community-driven Open Journal Systems (OJS) as their scholarly publishing platform. The OJS DOAJ community is growing!

PKP and Érudit, together as Coalition Publica, presented an open webinar focusing on the challenges, benefits, publishing options, how-to steps, and best practices for basic multilingual metadata use in PKP software. This webinar was offered both in English and French and based on PKP’s documentation with the objective of supporting multilingual practices in international and Canadian journals.

About 5 years ago, PKP welcomed Vitaliy Bezsheiko to the team as a Software Developer working mostly on the editorial and JATS XML workflow as well as on themes development. Now, in his new role as Software Developer Workflow Lead, Vitaliy takes the time to reflect on his past role, experiences, milestones, the meaning of his work, and what the future may hold.

Come join our global, virtual team and help transform scholarly publishing! DESCRIPTION The Budget Coordinator, PKP is responsible for providing financial, administrative, and operational support for the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The position is responsible for preparing and monitoring the annual budget process and long-term financial plan; project budgets, financial reports, projections, and year-end processing.

The next PKP Sprint will be taking place at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark , on June 20 and 21, 2023 . Registration is now open on the event’s website, where you can learn more about the schedule and proposed topics for #pkpcpn2023 . The purpose of a PKP Sprint is to bring together the community to work on improving PKP software.

In light of Elsevier’s recent editorial resignations and Wiley’s editorial firing, the Public Knowledge Project wishes to reiterate its twenty-five-year commitment to enabling the independence and integrity of scholarly editors by providing them with high quality free and open source publishing platforms for journals, books and preprints. That is to say, there is an alternative.

This DOAJ Indexing for Open Journal Systems (OJS) webinar outlines the steps that OJS-published journals can take to comply with DOAJ application requirements, for example, how to represent and link to information in OJS that is relevant for DOAJ inclusion and indexing.

The English summary follows. Webinaire Coalition Publica : L’utilisation judicieuse du multilinguisme dans les logiciels de PKP Nous invitons la communauté des revues savantes à participer à ce webinaire gratuit sur les défis, les avantages, les outils de publication, les étapes à suivre et les meilleures pratiques pour l’utilisation de métadonnées multilingues dans les logiciels du Public Knowledge Project (PKP). Le

PKP shares SciELO’s excitement as these two strategic partners both celebrate 25th anniversaries in 2023.  PKP and SciELO share a passion for open infrastructure development that can help make research and scholarship a global public good.

As part of the PKP community, be one of the first to try out PKP’s OJS / OMP / OPS 3.4 by participating in the Release Testing program. Participants will have a chance to try out a fresh installation and / or an upgrade. Additionally, participants can indicate which special areas of the software they are interested in testing.

Join us on our mission to increase the quality and reach of scholarly publishing as PKP’s Associate Director of Publishing Services.