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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
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Did you miss this CBC podcast with Nahlah Ayed and John Willinsky on #OpenAccess and the problem of the #internet? (53 minutes)

Listen where you get your podcasts, or through the CBC Listen App: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Or you can listen directly from the website: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
pkp.sfu.ca Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 6d
📻 Tune in to the CBC Ideas podcast Monday January 12th, 5 PM ET, to catch PKP Founder John Willinsky on #OpenAccess and the problem of the #Internet.

#Research and #scholarlyPublishing should be freely available to all #Canadians and worldwide.

Where to listen: app.magellan.ai/listen_links...
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January 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Are you thinking of upgrading to #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) 3.5 or 3.6? There are webinars for you this January and February to better understand the features!

Check out the details and register (for free as always): forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/three-ojs-...
Three OJS webinars on new features re 3.5 and 3.6 coming up
Hi all, and happy New Year! Here’s a quick brief on PKP OJS webinars coming up in January and February in order of upcoming dates. Structured Citations in OJS 3.6 – January 14, 9 AM Pacific (time zo...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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📻 Tune in to the CBC Ideas podcast Monday January 12th, 5 PM ET, to catch PKP Founder John Willinsky on #OpenAccess and the problem of the #Internet.

#Research and #scholarlyPublishing should be freely available to all #Canadians and worldwide.

Where to listen: app.magellan.ai/listen_links...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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CBC Radio One #Vancouver Host @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social interviews PKP Founder John Willinsky about his appointment to the #OrderofCanada, PKP, #OpenAccess #research, #ScholarlyPublishing, and #OpenJournalSystems (6 min)

Check it out! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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.
January 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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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!
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!
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge!

-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...

Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
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.
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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1/ Catching up on reading and resources over the holidays? Check out this thread to help populate your catch up time!

PKP's Founder John Willinsky authored "Copyright’s Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science" #OpenAccess: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Copyright's Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science
A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.Open access is widely supported by res
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December 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) has extended the deadline for in-person and a limited number remote proposals for the 2026 Library Publishing Forum to January 5, 2026: librarypublishing.org/program/
Program | Library Publishing Coalition
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December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A new version of Coalition Publica's Canadian scholarly journal dataset now available on doi.org/10.5683/SP3/..., including latest FRQ support data and new journals. @borealisdata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @erudit.org
Revues savantes canadiennes/Canadian scholarly journals
Métadonnées des revues savantes canadiennes, y compris des revues actives et des revues ayant cessé la publication. Pour être incluses, les revues ...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🛠️ Are you supporting or using OJS, OMP, or OPS for #ScholarlyPublishing, and curious about developments? Come join us to learn what we're working on!

Monday December 15th, 8 AM PST, online, free and open: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/24/d...

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
PKP Development News Update Webinar: December 15 2025 - Public Knowledge Project
You are invited to join PKP's free and open Development News Update Webinar on Monday December 15th, 8 AM PST.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Do you know about the @almasiproject.bsky.social Ambassadors Program?

"We’re looking for passionate researchers, librarians, and community leaders to become ALMASI Ambassadors and help us shape and communicate the value of #DiamondOA."

Apply by January 15th!

almasiproject.org/almasi-ambas...
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.
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Thank you @almasiproject.bsky.social for this webinar to connect with the ALMASI (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit #OpenAccess Publishing Services Internationally) community and the discussion on why #DiamondOpenAccess matters for reclaiming knowledge!

Learn more about ALMASI: almasiproject.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🎓 Want to learn about today's technologies and infrastructures for open #ScholarlyPublishing?

Open to all -- register by December 12th for your spot in this unique course -- PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructures!

www.sfu.ca/publishing/m...

#ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructure for Academic Publishing
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December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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📣 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"

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ScholComm #AcademicSky
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.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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📰 PKP's community newsletter, Archipelago Issue 8, came out at the end of November -- check out this feature!

📌 Regional feature: Canada’s leadership in diamond open access

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/28/r...

#DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #CanadianPublishing #AcademicSky
Regional Feature: Canada’s Leadership in Diamond Open Access - Public Knowledge Project
Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a fo...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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⚙️ Is it time to update your OJS, OMP, or OPS installation?

New updates for 3.3 (LTS), 3.4 and 3.5 are available, including bug fixes and security improvements.

⚙️ Get 3.3.0-22 (LTS), 3.4.0-10, or 3.5.0-2:

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/15/k...

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
Memo: Keeping your OJS Installation Secure - Public Knowledge Project
Is it time for you to update your Open Journal Systems (OJS) installation? Find out in this post from PKP.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"This new release of OJS (3.5) improves the backend experience of the site, making publishing operations easier and increasing the overall security of the software."

Thank you for sharing, and for updating, @archimedeict.bsky.social. We hope you will enjoy 3.5 :D

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS
December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Hi all, just a quick reminder to folks in #OpenAccess, #OpenInfrastructure, #OpenPublishing, #ScholComm, and #ScholarlyPublishing communities that registration for our new, unique PKP @sfupublishing.bsky.social Open Publishing courses are open until December 12, 2025.

Secure your spot soon! ⤵️
pkp.sfu.ca Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · Nov 21
Are you a researcher, editor, journal manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional looking to develop your skills? Are you interested in learning more about the values, influences, technologies, and standards shaping today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem?

Our courses are for you! 🧵
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.
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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En tant que partenaire de #CoalitionPublica, nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous le rapport annuel @erudit.org !

As a partner in #CoalitionPublica with us, we are pleased to share @erudit.org's Annual Report!

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #CanadianPublishing #AcademicSky

⤵️
erudit.org Érudit @erudit.org · Nov 24
→ Rapport annuel 2024-2025 📊

L’équipe d’Érudit est fière de vous présenter le rapport de ses activités pour la dernière année!

Découvrez l’évolution de notre organisation, nos derniers projets et nos développements technologiques:
👉 apropos.erudit.org/rapport-annu...
#CoalitionPublica #libreaccès
Rapport annuel 2024-2025
Découvrez l'évolution de notre collection, nos derniers projets et nos développements technologiques dans notre rapport annuel 2024-2025.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The team are back from #Munin2025

Their presentations are available to view /download via our Zenodo Community 🖥️

@openbookcollective.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/83LSXMu

@thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca 👉 buff.ly/6IKKASS
Opening books collectively: Working together for a fairer future for books
This presentation introduces how a relatively new, non-profit initiative – the Open Book Collective (OBC) – is furthering open science in a closing world via its diamond approach to funding open…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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⚙️ Join us for a PKP Software Development Update Webinar on Monday December 15th at 8 AM PST!

* Roadmap update, open #PeerReview, #DOIs, #citations & more

Can't make it? Register anyway for the recording!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/24/d...

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
PKP Development News Update Webinar: December 15 2025 - Public Knowledge Project
You are invited to join PKP's free and open Development News Update Webinar on Monday December 15th, 8 AM PST.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Are you a researcher, editor, journal manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional looking to develop your skills? Are you interested in learning more about the values, influences, technologies, and standards shaping today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem?

Our courses are for you! 🧵
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.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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#CollaborationNotCompetition! Toby Steiner and Zoe Wake Hyde (@radishpress.bsky.social) here at #Munin2025 talking about the ongoing collaborations between @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and @pkp.sfu.ca / #OpenMonographPress, showcasing the potential of open data workflows
Toby gesturing to a slide above and to the left, including the logos of Open Book Collective, PKP, DOAB/OAPEN and Thoth Open Metadata. Standing next to Zoe, at the front of an auditorium
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Kami mengundang Anda ke webinar tentang Plug-in OJS!

Pelajari cara mengoptimalkan metadata jurnal Anda dan menyimpannya di Crossref agar lebih mudah diakses dan ditemukan. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/2617627758703/WN_5MHGQCSwS7qGpnnGz73KXw
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Join us on 2 December for a practical webinar on the OJS plug-in and metadata quality. We'll cover installation, configuration, metadata deposit, and how to evaluate your metadata using Participation Reports. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/7917633902163/WN_ixm9QC2XQkicUAK3XZLXSA
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM