This release was originally published on TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology’s Events page. Join the Public Knowledge Project’s Hannover 2023 Sprint, hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology on September 11-13, 2023 in Hannover, Germany.

PKP partner TIB in Germany, is asking academic libraries to collectively fund seven open access journals from quantum physics, computer science, and mathematics in order to help these journals adhere to high publishing standards and to publish without author fees. PKP supports this approach and encourages those interested to answer the call for libraries to participate in the KOALA funding round by contacting TIB.

As part of PKP’s 25th Anniversary, and on the occasion of the Annual Day of the Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, PKP UX / UI Designer Devika Goel will offer “Demystifying Scholarly Publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS): A Practical Workshop.” Event Description This event aims to assist both novice and experienced users of PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), as well as individuals interested in

“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