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PKP is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial scholarly publishing via free open software — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
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🎉 PKP has launched its 2026 - 2030 Strategic Plan!

Check out our mission, mission, values, and key priorities:

🔗 Get the full plan here: pkp.sfu.ca/2026-2030-st...

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm
We're working toward a world where everyone can access and meaningfully contribute to open knowledge, for the benefit of all.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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At the #OAWeek Indiana University Library Keynote, PKP's Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca shows how 'exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers' - hidden diversity shows up when considering more inclusive databases

The paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Old approaches no longer reflect reality and oligopoly persists only in exclusive databases from van Bellen S, Alperin JP, Larivière V (2025) Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers. PLoS One 20(6): e0327015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327015
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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PKP’s Docs Hub offers user guides, developer documentation, and publishing resources for all our software.

Thanks to countless community contributions, PKP Docs Hub remains current, practical, and comprehensive: docs.pkp.sfu.ca

Docs Hub Contributor Guide: docs.pkp.sfu.ca/contributing...

#OAWeek
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October 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🔓 Next this #OAWeek PKP is spotlighting @craft-oa.bsky.social #OpenJournalSystems #DiamondOpenAccess plugins!

Discover what's possible when #OpenInfrastructure meets open collaboration, and how these plugins help boost recognition of #DiamondOA journals.

www.craft-oa.eu/ojs-diamond-...
Who owns our knowledge? How communities power the future of open publishing with PKP
October 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The 1st Canadian Conference on #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship is happening October 9 -10, 2025!

PKP, @erudit.org, and #CoalitionPublica are pleased to be partner contributors to this event.

Livestreaming will be on!

Details: oscanada.github.io/en/

#OSCanada #CanadaSky #AcademicChatter
October 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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👋 Let's connect at the @craft-oa.bsky.social Conference - Crafting the Future of #DiamondOpenAccess: Technical, Social & Political Perspectives of #ScholarlyPublishing

Urooj Nizami & @markhusk.bsky.social are there with many friends! @eudch.bsky.social

Check the thread for details 🧵

#CRAFT_OA2025
Mark is strategic business development advisor and Urooj is community engagement and outreach associate director
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more!

Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Thanks for sharing, @copim.bsky.social!

Very interesting reading for your Friday. @joedeville.bsky.social really paints a picture of how community collaboration is the cornerstone of #OpenBook publishing, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and #OpenMonographPress! ⤵️

#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure
Open Book Collective and Open Monograph Press interview with Joe Deville
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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PKP is pleased to sponsor #OASPA2025, which is bringing together folks from around the world to engage in the theme, "Embracing the Complexity -- how do we get to 100% #OpenAccess?"

Check out the incredible lineup of topics, panels, and speakers: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...

Have a great time!
OASPA 2025 Platinum Sponsors is MDPI, Gold Sponsors are ACS Publications and acm, Silver Sponsors are Bloomsbury, AJOL, and Cambridge University Press, and Bronze Sponsors are PKP, Crossref, PLOS, CCC, Delta Think, ASM, DOAJ, Frontiers, and Sage. And generous support from Wellcome Trust
September 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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👋 Are you going to be at #OASPA2025?

PKP's Strategic Business Development Advisor Mark Huskisson @markhusk.bsky.social will be there and wants to connect with you.

Chat about all things open, PKP, #OpenJournalSystems and more -- email mark[at]publicknowledgeproject.org or ping him on Bluesky!
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September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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It's #OASPA2025 @oaspa.bsky.social time!

PKP's Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca will be on the Tuesday September 23rd panel -- "Scaling inclusive #OpenAccess models"

👋 We hope to meet you there!
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September 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🔍 “...it frees us from the confinement imposed by the hegemonic stance…” -Suzanne Beth, Senior Coordinator, #Research, Érudit

💎 “...[it’s] a political and ethical choice that affirms the right to learn and share…” -Jeanette Hatherill, Senior Coordinator, #CoalitionPublica

#SoftwareFreedomDay2025
What does software freedom mean to you? Celebrating Software Freedom Day
September 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Full house today at @cern.bsky.social #OSFair2025 @osfair.bsky.social panel, Open Research Europe: A Catalyst toward Equitable Publishing, with PKP's Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca!

Hope everyone is having a great time!

#OpenScience #ORE #OpenJournalSystems
Juan Pablo Alperin speaking to a full house on a panel on Open Research Europe and PKP's Open Journal Systems (OJS) at the CERN Open Science Fair 2025. The slide on the projector shows the distribution of more than 50,000 OJS installations world wide.
September 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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📢 Upcoming #OpenMonographPress (OMP) Community Call - Thur August 28, 8 AM PDT

With OMP Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social!

If you signed up in the past, your invite is in your inbox 📬

If you haven't yet, sign up for OMP Community Calls: airtable.com/appDTVyaIiYb...

#OpenAccess
Zoe's smiling face is framed by shoulder length brown curly hair. PKP and OMP logos. "OMP Community Calls under the Spotlight". Quote from Zoe: "These calls are such a great chance to problem solve together. Today, we talked about everything from submissions to chapter workflows to aligning OJS and OMP themes. There's a wealth of experience in our user community to be shared.”
August 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🗓️ Optimizing #OJS for #MultilingualPublishing and #OpenAccess #JournalPublishing in #Africa

Join #AfricArXiv August 28 2025 at 11 AM CAT for a presentation by PKP's Müge Bakioğlu. Learn how to make the most of #OpenJournalSystems #OJS core features!

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Official session with featured presenter: AfricarXiv Open Science Webinar Series Optimizing Open Journal Systems (OJS) for multilingual open access journal publishing August 28, 2025. 10 AM WAT UTC +1, 11 AM CAT, 12 PM EAT Moderator is Keletso Masisi who's ORCID number is 0000-0001-5626-9605 Speaker is Müge Bakioğlu from PKP Presented by UbuntuNet Alliance, Access 2 Perspectives, and supported by the African Open Science Platform
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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PKP’s Mariya Maistrovskaya will present at @ifla.org #WLIC2025! Her talk features examples from PKP.

If you're going, say hi - Mariya would love to talk all things #Libraries, #OpenInfrastructure, #Sustainability, #OpenScholarship & #OpenScience.

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Join us at IFLA #WLIC2025 Monday August 18, 1 - 2 PM, UTC+5 Session is Sustainable Paths Towards Open Science and Open Scholarship Mariya’s talk is called It takes a village: How Library Contributions to Open Infrastructure Shape Global Open Science A quote from Mariya's abstract is the following. Drawing on real-world case studies, this presentation will highlight how library-led contributions to open platforms and collaborative support structures are helping grow a sustainable, scalable, and interoperative scholarly landscape...” Maria will present how libraries help build, sustain, and advance open infrastructure with in-kind, financial, hosting, and partnership examples from PKP. If you’d like to get in touch with Mariya, you can also send an email to connect to mariya_maistrovskaya at sfu.ca
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – #OJS 3.x to 3.5 release upgrade tutorial

Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!

Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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💎 Do you know about the @eudch.bsky.social European Diamond Capacity Hub Registry and Forum, fiscally hosted by @operaseu.bsky.social? Have you registered?

PKP is pleased to have registered. Check it out:

registry.diamas.org/public-knowl...

#AcademicSky #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA
The logo is a diamond in the shape of a heart, symbolizing the collective love for diamond open access.
July 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🚀 PKP announces the release of #OpenJournalSystems #OJS, #OpenMonographPress, and #OpenPreprintSystems version 3.5.0-1!

Thanks to our incredible community of coders, testers, documentation contributors, and financial contributors who make these releases possible.

forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...
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July 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🚀 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0-21 and 3.4.0-9 released -- it's time to update!

Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:

forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
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July 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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📢 Join PKP #OpenMonographPress (OMP) Community Calls!

Join OMP Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social for updates, feature planning, funding priority discussions, and share your needs.

Sign up: airtable.com/appDTVyaIiYb...

#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #ScholComm #AcademicSky
Zoe's smiling face is framed by shoulder length brown curly hair. PKP and OMP logos. "OMP Community Calls under the Spotlight". Quote from Zoe: "These calls are such a great chance to problem solve together. Today, we talked about everything from submissions to chapter workflows to aligning OJS and OMP themes. There's a wealth of experience in our user community to be shared.”
June 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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🎥 Now Available: PKP 2025 Annual General Meeting Recording + resources!

- Research, impact
- #OpenMonographPress
- #OpenJournalSystems
- #OpenResearchEurope and more

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/20/p...

Thank you for your continued support + collaboration!

#OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess #AcademicSky
PKP AGM recap and recording now available. The background is a team of about 50 global community members gather together at a PKP Sprint to develop software underpinning scholarly publishing.
June 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Thank you to all the #pkpOslo2025 participants for joining us and working hard to improve PKP software!

We also want to thank our local hosts, @uio.no, for an amazing experience and a successful and productive sprint!

Thank you!
June 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Last, but never least, the sixth working group of the second day of #pkpOslo2025 worked on OJS statistics
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#pkpOslo2025 also had a working group dedicated to OMP, its submission form, and how we define books
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM