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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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There are more career paths than you might realize with Journal Management and Editing skills! This PKP SFU Open Publishing course maps to roles like Publications Manager, Editorial Operations, Open Access Publishing Manager, Integrity Officer, Ethics Specialist, and more!

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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.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Check out the many career paths relevant to the PKP SFU Open Publishing Technologies and Infrastructure course!

Keep going in the thread for more reasons why to enroll in these values-driven, community-focused, top of the line courses 🧵

#OpenPublishing #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #ScholComm
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.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Not a credit student? Not a problem! These courses are not just for MPub students — they are for anyone involved in or interested in open publishing.

Learn from anywhere and complete the weekly course content remotely when it fits your schedule!

Wondering how these courses map to careers?

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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.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 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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👋 "Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for #OpenAccess books and chapters"

Toby Steiner @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, Zoe Wake Hyde @pkp.sfu.ca Nov 19 #Munin2025

Stream: site.uit.no/muninconf/pr...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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
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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