Join this webinar on November 1st, 2023, to gain insights into copyright and Creative Commons licensing considerations in OJS journals. The first part of this webinar will provide an overview of copyright in the Canadian context, open access publishing, and Creative Commons licenses. We will also discuss practical considerations when selecting a license and working with third-party content included in a publication.

PKP’s 25th Anniversary interview series celebrates the history of the Project and those involved – Part 1 features Brian Owen. For a quarter of a century, community partnerships have been key in PKP’s work towards making scholarly publishing a global public good. Getting into the stories behind these relationships, we asked partners and community members to share what drives these relationships.

The fourth set of sprint notes is now available from the PKP Copenhagen Sprint, hosted by the Royal Danish Library in June 2023 . Sprints involve PKP community members coming together in diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Royal Danish Library hosted eight working groups at the PKP Copenhagen Sprint last June. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

The third set of sprint notes is now available from the PKP Copenhagen Sprint, hosted by the Royal Danish Library in June 2023 . Sprints involve PKP community members coming together in diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Royal Danish Library hosted eight working groups at the PKP Copenhagen Sprint last June. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

The panel discussion will be hosted in English, while materials will be released in both English and French.

Dr. Tony Mays has been a part of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) team since February 2019 as an Education Specialist for Open Schooling.  In 2019, he joined the Editorial Board of COL’s Journal of Learning for Development and subsequently took over management of the journal.

On this Software Freedom Day and during its 25th anniversary, PKP takes a pause to celebrate its FOSS software and community. This September 16th, 2023, is Software Freedom Day, an annual world-wide celebration coordinated by the Digital Freedom Foundation to raise awareness of what it means to use free software and to encourage its use.

PKP held a development news webinar on Monday August 21st, 2023. The recording is now available. In this webinar, Alec Smecher, Bozana Bokan, Vitaliy Bezsheiko, Devika Goel, and Jarda Kotěšovec gave updates on PKP software developments and activities.

PKP is pleased to announce that it was named an awardee of ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF), an initiative of ORCID’s Global Participation Program.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and DataCite are pleased to announce in this jointly published release that PKP is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider.

PKP is to hold a development news webinar, open to the public, on Monday August 21st, at 9 AM PDT. The joining information is in this post. The first PKP Development News Webinar was held on December 12th, 2022.