In June 2022, the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies hosted a PKP Sprint in Helsinki, Finland. The Sprint involves PKP community members forming groups to tackle PKP software and support. This is a summary of one such group’s work.
Are you a librarian interested in reshaping scholarly communication? Then you may be interested in learning that the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is hiring a new Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian. PKP is a research and development facility at Simon Fraser University dedicated to improving how broadly research circulates.
As part of an annual tradition at this time of year, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) released its 2021 Annual Report on June 28th, 2022. The report, covering the fiscal year 2021 to March 31st, touches on all the year’s highlights in PKP’s ongoing efforts to expand public access to research and scholarship. At the top of the highlight list this year is PKP’s signing on to Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Core Facilities Program.
May 30, 2021 The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is thrilled to welcome back Kevin Stranack to the PKP leadership team. Kevin has been appointed the inaugural Director of Operations for the Public Knowledge Project in its recent designation as Simon Fraser University’s newest Core Facility.
May 16, 2022 PKP wants to acknowledge and thank Sonya Betz, Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, University of Alberta , for her role as the Chair of the Technical Committee. Sonya’s expertise in online user experience, digital repositories, scholarly publishing, and open access made her an invaluable member of the PKP technical committee.
April 27, 2022 English message follows. De acuerdo con datos publicados en 2021, existen más de 25,000 revistas en el mundo utilizando OJS para publicar, de las cuales 4,714 se encuentran en Latinoamérica . Sin embargo, los datos muestran que aún existe un alto porcentaje de instalaciones que no utilizan una versión de OJS actualizada.
April 14, 2022 Google Analytics’ privacy practices are being challenged, especially in European Union member countries, where they contravene the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and have been declared illegal in some countries. For this reason, the PKP Technical Committee recommends not using Google Analytics so you do not end up tracking readers that are citizens of countries that enforce GDPR.
Contact: Nate Wright Public Knowledge Project SFU Library, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC natew@publicknowledgeproject.org Job Title: Senior UX Designer The Senior UX Designer is responsible for ensuring that PKP produces accessible, user-centered software that meets the needs of a diverse global community of scholarly publishers.
April 4, 2022 PKP is seeking new volunteer members to join the Documentation Interest Group , a community-led PKP working group that manages, creates, and improves documentation about PKP software and publishing best practices. This is a great opportunity for a community member to get more involved with PKP, network with PKP partners and other organizations, and advance documentation and support resources.
Bogotá welcomes its first Latin American PKP Sprint, which will be held on June 30 and July 1, 2022 hosted by the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. Register today, space is limited. The post Bogota Sprint 2022 appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.
March 16, 2022 Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has unleashed an outpouring of condemnation from scientists and research organizations worldwide.This week, Canada’s three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) , the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – announced a new Special Response