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Documentation - Aid to Scholarly Journals / Documentation - Aide aux revues savantes — Coalition Publica For the 2025 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals program, Coalition Publica is pleased to provide editorial teams with a series of documents to aid in the preparation of their applications. En vue du conc...

→ #CoalitionPublica shares documentation to help those applying to the 2025 #SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals program.

📌 www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell...

#openaccess #diamondoa #AcademicChatter #OJS #ResearchMatters @pkp.sfu.ca

→ Programme Aide aux revues savantes du #CRSH

Nouvelles exigences 2025: #libreaccès immédiat sans #APCs, licence ouverte et DOAJ.

📌 Consultez les ressources de Coalition Publica: www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell...

@pkp.sfu.ca #OpenJournalSystems #ScholarlyPublishing #CanadianResearch

🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – OJS Upgrade

For systems administrators and journal managers responsible for managing #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS)

Register to learn about upgrading from OJS 3.x to the latest 3.5 release: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...

About a month ago, the 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School took place in #Coimbra. From beginners to experienced OJS users, participants gained valuable insights through hands-on workshops. 🔗Read more in our blog recap: www.craft-oa.eu/enabling-dia...
All the materials on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/...

We Want Your Feedback! New PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses Coming Soon - Public Knowledge Project PKP is pleased to announce collaborations with SFU and Lifelong Learning for new open publishing courses, and seeks community feedback.

🔊 We want your feedback on new PKP + @sfupublishing.bsky.social #OpenPublishing courses!

Courses:

* Making Knowledge Public
* #JournalManagement and Editing
* Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing

Survey open 'till Aug 8 - please share!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/07/w...

#OpenAccess

Inside OJS 3.5 with UX / UI Designer Devika Goel: Part 1 - Public Knowledge Project Learn about how communities got involved, the diversity of testing, and what went through Devika’s mind as she worked on the 3.5 design.

📰 "Inside OJS 3.5 with UX/UI Designer Devika Goel Part 1" -- check it out!

"Ultimately, I hope this redesign feels like an invitation... It’s about making sure everyone feels seen, heard, and supported."

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/28/i...

#OpenJournalSystems #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess #AcademicSky

Passion for Publishing: talking OMP with Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde Learn more about the findings of Zoe Wake Hyde’s Open Monograph Press (OMP) coordination and review efforts.

📰 Issue 6 of Archipelago features Zoe Wake Hyde, PKP’s OMP Coordinator!

Zoe shares her passion for OMP, libraries as publishers, and connecting with OMP users.

"I love learning from OMP users and seeing how they publish..."

Learn more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/28/p...

#OpenMonographPress #OpenAccess

The logo is a diamond in the shape of a heart, symbolizing the collective love for diamond open access.

💎 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

Join us on 27 Aug, 11:00 CEST for the next #DIAMAS Conversation Series webinar!
We’ll explore how the #EDCH Training Platform helps turn resources into real-world #capacity for #DiamondOA.

Tools, training & impact — let’s build together!

🔗 Register: buff.ly/a8DdH4C

#OpenAccess #OpenScience

This is a really exciting metadata development. Collaborative stewardship and distributed assertion models are the right way to go and some smart people are working on it.

Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research process | Letters Letters: Readers respond to an article on how too many low-quality papers and journals are being churned out

📢 Broken incentives & hijacked #OpenAccess — sound familiar?

@theguardian.com article sparked responses including a powerful one at #ScholCommLab @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social Leigh-Ann Butler & @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#AcademicSky

What do you think of John's proposal to solve the ongoing problem?

Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers Global scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. This paper revisits the data on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative ...

📚 New Research Alert - Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

📖 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @erudit.org

#ScholComm #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #Bibliodiversity #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Position on Estimation and Implications of Invisible Languages on the Internet University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) invites applications for a fully funded Postdoctoral Researcher on our ‘Invisible Languages’ project. The postdoc appointee...

📢 Job Alert: Postdoc at University of Amsterdam - Amserdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) - Estimation & Implications of Invisible Languages on the Internet

* 20-month full-time, starting Jan 2026
* Research linguistic justice, build tools, lead workshops

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Why Metadata Enrichment Matters for the Public Knowledge Project Learn why PKP is deeply involved in the Collaborative Metadata initiative (COMET), to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata.

I've been putting a lot of focus on #metadata and metadata quality recently, both in research and in work with @cometadata.bsky.social . Here's a blog post I wrote about why it matters, to me, and to @pkp.sfu.ca : pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/m...

OJS, OMP, OPS logos

🚀 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...

📢 Don't forget to register for the @cometadata.bsky.social Community Meeting July 15th!

Agenda

🎯 What is the COMET Model?
🎯 Overview of current pilot projects
🎯 Initial project findings
🎯 Discussion time
🎯 Opportunities for involvement

#Metadata #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky

Research Integrity and Copyright: A Proposal - Slaw The number one issue facing scholarly publishing today is research integrity. The crisis is associated with paper mills selling authorships to fabricated papers; reviewer cabals colluding with special...

📢 PKP Founder & advocate John Willinsky speaks out on #ResearchIntegrity, proposing and seeking feedback on, legislative reform

What do you think about John's bold proposal?

www.slaw.ca/2025/07/02/r...

#Copyright #ResearchIntegrity #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

OJS, OMP, OPS logos

🚀 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

We Want Your Feedback! New PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses Coming Soon - Public Knowledge Project PKP is pleased to announce collaborations with SFU and Lifelong Learning for new open publishing courses, and seeks community feedback.

PKP is pleased to announce the launch of collaborations with @sfupublishing.bsky.social and Lifelong Learning for new open publishing courses, and seeks community feedback.

Take the quick survey and learn more about the new courses: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/07/w...

#ScholarlyPublishing #OpenPublishing

We're 27 now :D

→ Data to document scholarly journals 🔎📊

#CoalitionPublica has developed a detailed and freely accessible inventory of national journals.

To learn more, watch the webinar "Documenting the Canadian Scholarly Journal Landscape."

youtu.be/SBykyZXzzjM?...
#CoalitionPublica @erudit.org

YouTube video by Public Knowledge Project OJS 3.5 Submission Navigation and Dashboard

▶️ New video out! OJS 3.5 Redesigned Submission Navigation and Dashboard

In 8 minutes learn about:

✨ Submission Dashboard Overview
✨ Navigation Menus and Views
✨ User Specific Views and much, much more!

youtu.be/c9d28VxO7VM

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Article Production in PKP Software: Directions and Plans - Public Knowledge Project This post highlights production changes and plans for PKP software versions 3.5 and 3.6 that will lower the cost of publishing, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models.

🚨 New blog post: “Article production in PKP Software: Directions & plans”🚨

🌱 Updates in 3.5 & 3.6
🌱 Benefits for costs, access, new models
🌱 Insights for devs, editors & managers

🔗 pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/p...

#openJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems #ScholComm #AcademicSky

We love your posters and infographics <3 So happy to see all the buzz!

Will this event be recorded? PKP's #OpenMonographPress (OMP) Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social will likely be interested in this event but the time zone difference makes it a bit tough. Fantastic to see #OABooks coming to the forefront!

Congratulations and happy 25 years! Keep up the amazing work!

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.”

📢 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

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.

🎥 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

🎓El informe anual de @pkp.sfu.ca sigue dando alas a una comunidad brillante y generosa que cree en el poder transformador del conocimiento.
📌52.000 revistas y los proyectos europeos baten sus alas.
❤️España, gracias al trabajo de sus Editoriales Universitarias, suman aquí también. #MarcBria