Today we celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and the progress that PKP and the OJS community have made towards making scholarly publishing more accessible – and thus open for all.

UPDATE June 1 2021: The deadline for applications has passed, and applications are no longer accepted. PKP is currently seeking a talented, full-time Communications Manager to help with PKP’s wide-ranging communications efforts.

Adapted from an email announcement from the Library Publishing Coalition, sent May 5, 2021. PKP is delighted to announce, in collaboration with the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), the launch of a new series of courses in PKP School: Getting Started in Library Publishing . This four-course series is adapted from the LPC’s Library Publishing Curriculum, which originally launched in Google Drive in 2018 as a suite of synchronous

Since the release of OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3, we’ve been hard at work planning our next major release. In this post, I’ll kick off our 3.4 development cycle by sharing our plans for the next six months, including major work on email notifications, DOIs, accessibility, and code modernization.

Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the 2021 Call for Proposals – Big Data. Non-commercial research projects in the digital humanities are invited to apply for access to the largest digital research corpus of Canadian full text periodicals available.

This month we released OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3. These release packages were in development for nearly a year and represent a major step forward in our efforts to modernize the codebase and improve our release process. In this post, I’ll describe some of the key changes we’re making to the way we build software and how that will benefit our community.

Coalition Publica is launching a call for applications for scholarly journals wishing to be disseminated on the Érudit platform (erudit.org) as of January 2023. The journal should submit its application before Sunday, April 24, 2022 . Applications received after this date may be evaluated for the following year.

In our third “Feature Friday” installment, we take a look at new features in OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3 helping to make our software truly open. At PKP, we believe openness is about sharing freely (without cost) and sharing widely (without barriers). But what happens when what we think is open isn’t open to all? When your software cannot be fully experienced by assistive technologies, or when it uses exclusionary terminology?

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to introduce Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), PKP’s newest Development Partner.  A new Cooperation Agreement welcomes PKP’s first Development Partner outside of North America.

Did you know? Open Journal Systems (OJS) is currently being translated into 52 different languages.

Are you a journal manager or editor using Open Journal Systems (OJS)? Are there improvements you’d like to see to help you manage statistics, editorial workflow, or other tasks? If yes, the PKP Technical Committee wants to hear from you!  The PKP Technical Committee (TC) was formalized in 2013 and includes representatives from each of PKP’s Development Partners, as well as several members from the community.