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.
The second set of sprint notes are 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.
English On June 26th and 27th 2023, the Instituto Biológico de São Paulo hosted the PKP Brasil 2023 event, organized by the Public Knowledge Project, the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil), and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO).
The first set of sprint notes are 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.
PKP held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2022 fiscal year on August 4th, 2023. The AGM recording is now available.
We are pleased to share PKP’s Annual Report and Annual General Meeting link for fiscal year 2022. The organization, along with its research and development, continues to grow because of the input and support of a great many contributors. The PKP 2022 Annual Report provides an update on PKP activities over the 2022 fiscal year.
Ukrainian to follow. This post was adapted from the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine website. On July 25 of this year, the webinar “Open Journal Systems (OJS) – a free and open software package for the publication of scientific research” was held, dedicated to the platform for hosting scientific journals, often used in open access.