Public Knowledge Project

🚀 Help Shape the Future of OJS! Call to complete the 5 minute Submission Workflow Survey by February 25th We’re making key improvements to the submission workflow in OJS to enhance usability and reduce unnecessary clicks. As part of this, we’re looking for feedback on two important areas: 🔹 Minimum Reviews versus Minimum Reviewers Required -- How should reviewer assignments be managed? 🔹 Days in Stage versus Days Since Last Activity -- What’s the most valuable way to track submission progress? Your insights will directly influence these updates, ensuring OJS works better for #editors, #JournalManagers, and the entire #publishing community. 📝 Take the survey before 25th February -- it won’t take more than 5 minutes! 📢 Your feedback matters -- let us know what works best for you! https://lnkd.in/gae8x5J3 Thank you for helping us improve #OJS 💡✨ Please consider sharing with folks who you know are using OJS! #OpenJournalSystems #SubmissionWorkflow #Usability #OJSUsers #OpenAccess

📖 💻 Upcoming webinar: "OMP under the spotlight: a closer look at PKP’s Open Monograph Press", Wednesday, Mar 12th 2025, 8 AM PDT / 9 AM MDT / 10 AM CDT, 11 AM EDT Presenter: Zoe Wake Hyde, PKP Open Monograph Press (OMP) Coordinator Facilitator: Kate Shuttleworth, PKP Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian The hot seat has been taken by Open Journal Systems, but let's not forget about long-form publishing like monographs, textbooks, and independent book publishing to name a few. PKP invites you to participate in a town hall-style conversation about PKP's community-driven #OpenMonographPress, which is currently the subject of a review by PKP’s OMP Coordinator, Zoe Wake Hyde. Zoe will share an overview of the findings to date, and invite attendees to respond to some prompt questions which will inform the final report. An open discussion will follow, where you can share your thoughts on OMP and its role in PKP’s strategic vision. We welcome all existing OMP users, those considering its adoption, and anyone interested in how PKP is supporting long-form publishing into the future. This event will be recorded and shared with the public. The hosts will disable microphones and video screens, and there will be opportunities for questions and comments. Join us! Register for free (as always): https://lnkd.in/gNjVXDrN If you don't want to use Eventbrite to register please check the link for the alternative registration method. Help us bring OMP forward! Please share with folks who are using OMP, looking for ways to publish long-form non-commercially, wanting to publish textbooks or independent books and the like, wanting to publish open education resources in the form of monographs, or anyone you think would be interested in (re)connecting with what's going on with OMP! #OpenMonographPress #OpenInfrastructure #FOSS #OpenAccess #OpenEducationResources #ORE #ScholarlyPublishing

▶️ The recording of the Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) webinar about Open Journal Systems (OJS) free and open source software implementation is now available! From their YouTube description: Karl Magnus Nilsen, senior platform engineer of the Norwegian Septentrio Academic Publishing platform discusses multilingualism in OJS. Vaso Manojlović shares his experiences of using OJS for journals and conference proceedings in Serbia and about his free Python script on Google Colab to scrape old site data and generate XML, speeding up import when migrating content to OJS from other websites. Friedrich Summann, CORE Operations Manager, speaks about enabling the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) in OJS. Check out the recording: https://lnkd.in/gqy4zgjt #CORE #OpenAccess #Metadata #Python #XML #MultilingualPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm #OpenJournalSystems #OJS

Happy International Love Data Week! #LoveData24 New research from PKP: "A caminho da indexação universal: OpenAlex e Open Journal Systems / Towards Universal Indexing: OpenAlex and Open Journal Systems" This year's Love Data Week theme is "Who's data is it, anyway?" It just so happens that Diego Chavarro (PKP), Juan Pablo Alperin (SFU Publishing, #ScholCommLab and PKP), and John Willinsky (Stanford University and PKP) put a paper on SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online Preprints this month: "By analyzing a dataset of 47,625 active JUOJS, we reveal that 71% of these journals have at least one article indexed in OpenAlex. Our findings underscore the central role of Crossref DOIs in achieving indexing, with 97% of the journals using Crossref DOIs included in OpenAlex." But who's data is it, anyway? The paper also underlines structural inequities, systemic disparities, and underrepresentation... check it out: https://lnkd.in/gu4i8YVZ #LoveData #Bibliodiversity #OpenAlex #OpenJournalSystems #OJS #Indexing #Multilingualism #DOIs #PIDs #Interoperability #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter

→ Appel à candidatures - revues savantes  📣📚 Érudit lance son appel à candidatures annuel pour les revues savantes québécoises et canadiennes qui souhaitent être diffusées sur la plateforme erudit.org à partir de janvier 2026. Chaque année, notre corpus de revues s'enrichit de plusieurs nouvelles publications. Chacune de ces revues fait l'objet d’un processus de sélection qui se base sur des critères précis, et chaque candidature est examinée par notre direction scientifique. Cette sélection limitée de nouveaux titres nous permet d’accompagner chaque équipe éditoriale de façon personnalisée. Dans le cadre de Coalition Publica, le partenariat entre Érudit et le Public Knowledge Project (PKP), nous sommes également heureux d'ouvrir cet appel aux revues savantes qui utilisent ou qui souhaitent utiliser Open Journal Systems (OJS) de PKP. Vous connaissez des revues savantes qui ne sont pas encore sur Érudit? N’hésitez pas à leur transmettre le message! Tous les détails ici : https://lnkd.in/eEdBPGTN _____________________ → Call for Applications - Scholarly Journals  📣📚 Good news! We have just opened our call for applications for Canadian scholarly journals that wish to be disseminated on erudit.org starting in 2026. As part of #CoalitionPublica, our partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), we are also pleased to open this call to scholarly journals that use or wish to use PKP's Open Journal Systems (#OJS). Do you know of a scholarly journal that could benefit from our digital production and dissemination services? Don't hesitate to share this message with them! Full details here: https://lnkd.in/eUY7Z_eA

Reminder: please join us for the next PKP Development News Update Webinar, happening February 18th! Yes, it will be recorded, and please check below for specifics.

Infra Finder now showcases 100 infrastructures! As we celebrate this major milestone, we want to highlight the indispensable role of open infrastructures in enabling open research and connecting researchers and knowledge worldwide. Open infrastructures' work in strengthening their community engagement mechanisms, governance, and technical infrastructure is invaluable in ensuring that the research community’s evolving needs can continue to be met. Discover the infrastructures underpinning and transforming research: https://lnkd.in/dYtuydjd Do you have a favorite open infrastructure service that should be added to Infra Finder? We'd love to meet them! Tag them in this post or head over to our Expression of Interest form to get started https://lnkd.in/d5Z274yw

✨ Registration is open for the Canada Student Journal Forum #SJF2025, February 18 - 20! This forum is an example of Canadian contexts in student publishing, but is free and open to all students globally. Student publishing and the university libraries that support it, are a key part of the Canadian scholarly publishing landscape. Did you know that one-third of Canada library-published journals are student journals (Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada CARL / ABRC, 2024*)? Learn from panelists and skill sessions > student editor grants, project management, open access, copyediting, artificial intelligence in scholarly publishing, and careers in scholarly publishing. Learn from student journal presenters > publishing practices, building community, journal growth, quality control, supporting student capacities, going national, interdisciplinary procedures, promoting research, reach, impact, publishing workflows, knowledge mobilization, continuance, brand consistency, and more! 🔖 Learn more and register https://lnkd.in/gWNWTfUZ * Check out CARL / ABRC "Canadian Library Journal Publishing: A Primer (2024)" https://lnkd.in/ghcwkqtd or in French https://lnkd.in/gZhknX7t #SJF2025 student journal participants on LinkedIn (but there are many more; check the "learn more and register" link above to learn about participating journals): Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education (CJNSE / RCJCÉ) Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management Eureka Undergraduate Science Journal Queen's Science Undergraduate Research Journal The iJournal The Mirror - Western's Undergraduate History Journal #CanadianPublishing #CanadianStudentJournals #StudentJournal #StudentEditor #OpenAccess #ScholComm #AcademicChatter

📅 Save the date for the next PKP Sprint! Organized in collaboration with the University of Oslo, the next sprint will take place June 2 - 3 2025, in Oslo, Norway. The PKP sprint is open to developers, system admins, journal managers, librarians, user interface experts, and others involved in publishing. If you use #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), #OpenMonographPress (OMP), or #OpenPreprintSystems (OPS) and have ideas to improve these systems, we invite you to join this fun 2 day event. No technical expertise required! 🤝 Please share this post with folks who may be interested, like journals using OJS, University Libraries hosting journals using OJS, scholarly publishing folks interested in improving features and workflows for journals, books and preprints, and folks who want to give back to the open infrastructure they use. Stay tuned for the registration announcement. Learn more and save the date: https://lnkd.in/g2YGb6Uz #PKPSprint #PKPOslo2025 #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure #SustainOpen #CommunityDriven #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter Tagging some folks who might be interested Amanda French Adam Buttrick Ayssi Rachid chaib bachir Jane Buggle Kamel Belhamel Crossref Creative Commons DOAJ DataCite Érudit Gareth Dyke Ginny Hendricks Gwendal Henry International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Iryna Kuchma Maria Lamury LSE Impact Blog University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) SFU Publishing University of Oslo Library University of Oslo Lancaster University Library Society for Scholarly Publishing Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association College & Research Libraries DOAJ Indian Open Preprint System Stanford University Press University of Victoria Libraries - Digital Scholarship Commons University of Tennessee Libraries University of Kansas Libraries Texas Digital Library Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) KU Leuven Bibliotheken - Libraries Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) Edinburgh Diamond

Webinar outputs: did you miss PKP's webinar on OJS and Open Research Europe (ORE) on January 23rd? OJS developments have already begun as OJS will underpin ORE's open publishing platform in 2026, which will also mean great things for all OJS user communities. Get a recap, access the webinar recording, and get the slides: https://lnkd.in/gCq7fUk9 #OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenPublishing #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenResearchEurope #ScholComm