Public Knowledge Project

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The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a research and development initiative that is also a Core Facility of Simon Fraser University. We develop community-driven free and open software, as well as conduct research, to improve the quality and reach of non-commercial scholarly publishing for the global public good.

#ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm #OpenInfrastructure #ScholarlyIndependence #OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenPreprintSystems #OpenMonographPress #FOSS #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Websitehttps://pkp.sfu.ca/
Open Journal Systemshttps://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/
PKP Community Forumhttps://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/
PKP Docs Hubhttps://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/

đź“° Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago"!

Interview with PKP's new Managing Director, Teresa Lee

Demystifying #FOSS with Alec Smecher @asmecher

Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA with Mark Huskisson @markhusk

#OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6 task history / improved notifications with Magnus Lu

Publication Facts Label #PFLabel with PKP Founder John Willinsky

And more to access all in one place: https://lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/archipelago-issue-10-march-2026-5878

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter

The @copim #CopimConference is well under way, bringing together communities interested in and building the future of community-led #OpenAccess books.

Catch PKP's OMP Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde on "Where are the new scholar-led #OpenAccess presses & how can we support their emergence?" panel with Lucy Barnes (Chair), Julien McHardy and Niki Rhyner, February 27, 13:30 GMT!

Check out the program: https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/#conference-programme

#OpenMonographPress #OpenBooks #OpenPublishing #AcademicChatter

đź‘‹ Hi #CopimConference @copim community!

PKP's Strategic Business Development Advisor Mark Huskisson - @markhusk - is on site.

Mark is available to connect and discuss #OpenAccess, publishing models, funding, community drivers, PKP software like #OpenMonographPress (OMP) and more.

Please feel free to connect in person, here on Mastodon, or email him: [email protected]

🛠️ Upcoming PKP Development News webinar -- February 23, 2026, 8 AM Pacific Time!

Topics
- Roadmap update
- Body text editor
- PubMed Central deposits
- JATS
- Peer review

If you can't make it, register anyway and get the recording.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-development-news-webinar-february-2026-tickets-1975856243212

(or email commpkp[at]sfu[dot]ca subject: Feb Dev webinar registration)

@DOAJ @ORCID_Org @tibhannover @TIBopenpub @crossref @ResearchOrgs @investinopen @SCOSSfunding

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

You're invited to the upcoming webinar: @craftoa Developments in #OpenJournalSystems: #Metadata quality and #MultilingualPublishing

February 9, 8 AM PT

Join us (for free as usual) to learn about:

Multilingual publishing improvements: Enhanced support for small and regional languages, plus language-specific URLs (OJS 3.5)

Metadata innovations: Integration of controlled vocabularies, enhancements to contributor metadata, and support for data citations (OJS 3.6)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/craft-oa-developments-in-ojs-metadata-quality-and-multilingual-publishing-tickets-1977084302370?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1

CRAFT-OA Developments in OJS: Metadata quality and multilingual publishing

Join us to learn about OJS enhancements from the CRAFT-OA project.

Eventbrite

Reminder -- upcoming webinar "What’s Coming in OJS 3.6: Tasks and Discussions" features January 28, 9 - 9:45 AM PT

With these features, you can:

- Create tasks for any stage of the submission workflow, either from scratch or using pre-built templates.

- Track progress and monitor completion, with visual cues highlighting the latest activity.

- Automate task initiation at specific workflow stages to save time and reduce manual steps.

Join us for live demos and more!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-coming-in-ojs-36-tasks-and-discussions-tickets-1977312758689?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1

What’s Coming in OJS 3.6: Tasks and Discussions

Join us to learn about the Tasks and Discussions feature coming in OJS 3.6.

Eventbrite

Are you using #OpenMonographPress (OMP) to publish scholarly books, #monographs or other long-form works?

Join our Community Call with Zoe Wake Hyde @zwhnz to contribute to the future of OMP!

January 29, 8 AM PT

If you haven't signed up for invites, email zwhyde[at]sfu[dot]ca or sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/4zcv52jb

#OABooks

Reminder: PKP webinar happening tomorrow (January 14), 9 - 9:30 AM Pacific, on Structured #Citations in #OpenJournalSystems 3.6 with Gazi YĂĽcel of @tibhannover

Details and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pkp-webinar-structured-citations-in-ojs-36-tickets-1976978404627?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1

@TIBopenpub

#OpenResearchEurope

From us to all of our lovely communities, we are very thankful for all the collaboration, support, initiatives, events, connections and so much more over 2025. We wish you all a very happy New Year and we look forward to 2026 with you!

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

PKP supports this call, and works to develop and maintain free open software for independent scholarly publishing.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820

#ScholComm #AcademicChatter #FOSS #BetterPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #IndependentPublishing #OpenAccess