Public Knowledge Project

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PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca

Photo of Teresa Lee, Managing Director. Text reads Teresa is a librarian and publisher with experience in Canadian academic libraries, the US government sector, and UN publishing. She held roles as the Associate Dean, Research and Open Scholarship at York University Libraries; Knowledge Manager at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO); E-resource and Access Librarian at UBC; and Liaison Librarian to UBC’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Teresa is a graduate of UBC’s iSchool, and was an Associate Fellow at the US National Library of Medicine. She brings a well-rounded perspective that is informed by experience and ongoing professional interest in health librarianship, e-resources, licensing, copyright, intergovernmental publishing, bibliometrics, and scholarly communications. She is committed to equity in the making and sharing of knowledge. In her off hours she can be found reading, loafing with her dog, or rounding up friends for chamber music.
Photo of Urooj, located in Montréal, Canada. Text reads Urooj works to build and maintain relationships with PKP’s diverse international community and partners. She is a trained librarian with a master’s degree from McGill University’s School of Information Studies and holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Temple University.
Entrevues avec : Margot Mellet, Professeure adjointe, chercheuse et éditrice, Université de Sherbrooke, revues, Sens Public & Imaginations (entrevue en français) Samantha MacFarlane, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Preservation Studies (KULA) (interview in English) Maude Lethiecq-Normand, Cheffe du service Recherche et initiatives numériques, Bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal (entrevue en français)
Interviews with / Entrevues avec : Margot Mellet, Professeure adjointe, chercheuse et éditrice, Université de Sherbrooke, revues, Sens Public & Imaginations (entrevue en français) Samantha MacFarlane, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Preservation Studies (KULA) (interview in English) Maude Lethiecq-Normand, Cheffe du service Recherche et initiatives numériques, Bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal (entrevue en français)
Réunion en personne de la Coalition Publica en 2024, réunissant plus de 30 membres d'Erudit et du Public Knowledge Project pour discuter de collaborations, d'innovations, de stratégie, de mission et plus encore. Encadré en bas par le logo du Navigateur des installations de recherche de la FCI, un N divisé en deux flèches pointant vers le haut et vers le bas, reliées par un espace négatif, symbolise l'innovation et la collaboration.
Coalition Publica in person meeting of 2024 with more than 30 team members coming together from Erudit and Public Knowledge Project to discuss collaborations, innovations, strategy, mission and more. Framed at the bottom with the CFI Research Facilities Navigator logo, an N broken into 2 arrow shaped parts going up and down joined by negative space to represent innovation and collaboration.
Library Publishing Forum 2026 June 17 to 18 in Seattle at University of Washington. Ferris wheel in silhouette pictured.
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Página principal del sitio web de PKP School. Imagen de portada con el texto: Aprendizaje global, conocimiento global. PKP School es una colección de cursos en línea, abiertos y a ritmo propio, diseñados para ayudar a mejorar la calidad de la publicación académica en todo el mundo.
PKP school website home page. Cover image with text: global learning, global knowledge. PKP School is an online, open, self-paced collection of courses designed to help improve the quality of scholarly publishing around the world.
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The Stockholm archipelago in Sweden is lit up in a golden bath of sunlight, with a mysterious mist hanging low in front of the silhouetted island. The water shimmers like a glowing, rippling mirror. The use of archipelago photography in PKP's newsletter represents the distributed yet connected nature of free and open source software as well as open access communities. The photo was taken by PKP's Jason Nugent on his travels.
Continue the conversation with Mark. Email him at mark@publicknowledgeproject.org or chat with him on BlueSky
Continue the conversation with Open Monograph Press Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde. Email her at zwhyde@sfu.ca
Kora and Mark try to keep straight faces but they are having way too much fun!
Mark Huskisson is PKP Strategic Business Advisor and Juan Pablo Alperin is PKP Scientific Director. The Summit's logo is an elephant in India reaching up to a tree with many branches. The elephant has a diamond shaped blanket on its back with an open access symbol.
OMP Community Calls under the spotlight graphic featuring Zoe Wake Hyde, OMP Coordinator. The quote reads These calls are such a great chance to problem solve together… we (have) 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.
Snapshot of text describing the interview reads The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. Eighty people appointed to the Order of Canada. January 5, 2026. Thirteen British Columbians were appointed this year, including John Willinsky for his work on the Public Knowledge Project, which aims to make all research publicly accessible.
Photo of poinsettias representing holiday season, and text that says thank you to our communities for another incredible year. We wish you and yours all the best for 2026!
The Order of Canada insignia: a white, six-pointed snowflake-shaped medal with gold edges, a red maple leaf at the center, and a crown above it, with the words ‘The Order of Canada’ displayed above the emblem.
ALMASI stands for Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services in Africa, Europe and Latin America, and is focused on Diamond Open Access with no fees for authors or readers.
Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
A table titled “Journal Management and Editing” lists skills in the left column and corresponding careers in the right column. – Journal management responsibilities: careers include managing editor, journal manager, and publications manager. – Designing editorial workflows: careers include editorial operations manager and assistant editor. – Implementing peer review: careers include peer review coordinator, managing editor, and section editor. – Applying publishing ethics: careers include research integrity officer, ethics specialist, and editor. – Content curation and quality control: careers include editor, associate editor, and portfolio manager. – Integrating open access: careers include open-access (OA) publishing manager and library publishing coordinator.
A table titled “Technology and Infrastructure” lists skills in the left column and corresponding careers in the right column. – Understanding scholarly technologies and infrastructures: careers include publishing technologist, systems analyst, and product manager. – Using CMS to manage academic content: careers include digital publishing specialist, CMS administrator, and content manager. – Applying metadata standards: careers include metadata librarian, indexing specialist, and repository manager. – Implementing digital preservation: careers include digital archivist, preservation specialist, and repository manager. – Evaluating libraries, repositories, and open-access (OA) platforms: careers include scholarly communications librarian, OA manager, and publishing strategist. – Assessing and applying open-source tools: careers include open publishing librarian, technical specialist, and support roles.
A table titled “Making Knowledge Public” lists skills in the left column and related careers in the right column. – Understanding how research moves into the public sphere: careers include knowledge mobilization, scholarly communications, and research impact. – Evaluating the public value of scholarly knowledge: careers include research impact analysis, open-access (OA) strategy, and policy-oriented publishing. – Critiquing academic prestige structures: careers include publishing reform, OA advocacy, and scholarly publishing strategy. – Identifying barriers to making knowledge public: careers include OA management, repository strategy, and public scholarship coordination. – Reflecting on the role of education and institutions: careers include academic strategy, publishing ethics, and university policy roles. – Assessing opportunities to strengthen researchers’ public mission: careers include public scholarship offices, impact units, and open-access management.
Welcome to your future in open publishing! Learn why you should take new PKP SFU open publishing courses and how they can prepare you for the future. Register before December 12 2025.
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We're working toward a world where everyone can access and meaningfully contribute to open knowledge, for the benefit of all.
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
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Who owns our knowledge? How communities power the future of open publishing with PKP
Mark is strategic business development advisor and Urooj is community engagement and outreach associate director
Open Book Collective and Open Monograph Press interview with Joe Deville
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
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What does software freedom mean to you? Celebrating Software Freedom Day
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.
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.”
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
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
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The logo is a diamond in the shape of a heart, symbolizing the collective love for diamond open access.
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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.”
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.