🚀 PKP Releases OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5 -- user and community informed!

🔍 What’s new?

✔️ Redesigned editorial dashboard
✔️ New user invitation workflow
✔️ JATS XML preview
✔️ Interoperability advances
✔️ Multilingual publishing, and more!

Check the post:

🎯 Why upgrade now?
📥 Download the releases
📚 Learn what’s new
💬 How to share your feedback
👏 A huge thank you!

Explore and get resources: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/16/350-release-announcement/

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems #OpenAccess

📣 PKP's Annual Report is here!

Rooted in our values — Community Engagement, Educational Initiatives, Open Infrastructure, Research and Advocacy, as well as Sustainability — this year’s report highlights how these principles guide our work.

📄 Explore: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/16/annual-report-2024-release/

With deep gratitude to our entire team and community — thank you for building the future of #ScholarlyPublishing with us.

#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

Open Journal Systems version 3.5 is on its way! To help users get familiar with 3.5, we're creating a series of video resources.

In this video, 2 major changes are briefly presented and demonstrated: (1) redesign of submission interface, and (2) new user invitation process.

Check out this overview on YouTube! If you find this resource useful, please consider giving us a supportive comment, a like, and subscribe to get the latest; more is coming:

https://youtu.be/hbo9BA1NwSs?si=liB9DQgsM1Rug-6t

#OpenJournalSystems

PKP software updates are here! Are you on 3.3 or 3.4? Check it out:

* #OpenJournalSystems 3.3.0-21 (Long-Term Support / LTS) and 3.4.0-9
* #OpenMonographPress 3.3.0-21 (LTS) and 3.4.0-9
* #OpenPreprintSystems 3.3.0-21 (LTS) and 3.4.0-9

Access (and better yet join) the PKP Community Forum to stay informed and get details:

https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-and-ops-3-3-0-21-and-3-4-0-9-released/95887

📣 PKP is getting ready to release #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) version 3.5! Check out this overview, slide deck, and video resource to help you get familiar with enhanced editorial workflows, user management, and system performance based on user feedback:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/05/27/whats-new-in-open-journal-systems-ojs-3-5-with-recording-and-slides/

Have you checked out the latest PKP tech sessions?

Catch demos of #OpenJournalSystems and #Metabase business intelligence tools, as well as how to use the #OpenID plugin with OJS, #OpenMonographPress and #OpenPreprintSystems!

Access the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg358gdRUrDVkBczp0b815UxDtyqEc62r&si=7O4szrQP0Z0O2MTj

Hi all,

Please join us at our next Development News Update webinar, June 16 8 AM PDT!

Topics to be discussed include:

* OJS/OMP/OPS 3.5.0 release + features
* Expanded tools for content organization with Categories
* Customizable reviewer recommendation
* Controlled vocabulary plugins
* Journal Article Versions and preprints in OJS
* Using email templates to extend workflow

Hope to meet you there!

Eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-development-news-webinar-june-2025-tickets-1221598517049?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS

Invest in Open Infrastructure (#IOI, @investinopen) makes an important point in its new report:
https://investinopen.org/state-of-open-infrastructure-2025/sooi-foreword-2025/

"Imagine just a few of the major open infrastructures serving scholarship today: #arXiv, #PubMed, #DSpace, #OpenJournalSystems, or perhaps #CreativeCommons…Consider how many of these have been created on a cycle of grants and sustained on a combination of donations, membership fees, service hosting, and/or specialized development…Most scholars, teachers, and researchers…accept them as a given and depend on them…But these infrastructures are not, on the whole, sustainable businesses with robust fiscal models and diversified revenues. Many do not turn profits; most operate at steady losses that are absorbed by philanthropic and government funders and a variety of research institutions including labs, universities, and colleges. They operate on systems rife with technical debt, and they depend upon volunteer labour to cover much of their human costs from governance to editorial review to code development."

#OpenInfrastructure #ScholComm

Registration is open for the PKP Annual General Meeting happening Tuesday June 17 2025 at 9 AM PDT

Join us for updates and open discussion around strategic planning, Advisory Committee, research, scholarly publishing in Indonesia, what's next for Open Monograph Press, Open Research Europe and developments for Open Journal Systems 3.6.

Hope to meet you there!

Details and registration: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/05/20/pkp-2025-agm-registration-open/

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenResearchEurope

Reminder: Free, Easy, Essential; Future Proof your Scholarly Record with PKP Preservation Network, free webinar May 20

Why you should care about preservation with #PKPPN #OpenJournalSystems #OJS

Register today... it's not too late!

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/05/14/pkp-preservation-network-webinar-registration/

#PKPPN #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure