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JASPER: a cross-industry collaboration making a real difference! | DOAJ News Service

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Two years ago, DOAJ announced it would take proactive steps to prevent open access journals from disappearing from the Internet. Two months later, Project JASPER was born. 

JASPER is a cross-industry collaboration with one main goal: to help open access journals be preserved long-term. It sounds simple, but there are challenges. Lack of resources and understanding around why preservation is needed means that many journals aren’t ever preserved. 

The JASPER partners—CLOCKSS, DOAJ, Internet Archive, The Keepers Registry, and Public Knowledge Project (PKP)—collaborated to build on existing trusted infrastructure and services. Journals indexed in DOAJ can apply to be included in a variety of long-term digital preservation services if they meet a range of selection criteria. Journals can choose one or more preservation routes: currently, Internet Archive, the PKP’s Preservation Network (PKP-PN), or CLOCKSS.

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25 Years of Open Source & Open Access: An interview with Lynn Copeland – Public Knowledge Project

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“For a quarter of a century, community partnerships have been key in PKP’s work towards making research a global public good. Getting into the stories behind these relationships, we asked some of our partners to share what drives these connections. We are grateful to Lynn Copeland and those who know her for taking the time to share these stories….”

Continuing partnerships after SCOSS – SCOSS – The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services

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“With the infrastructures from the SCOSS 2nd funding cycle nearing the end of their active fundraising period through SCOSS, we would like to highlight their need for continued support. All three infrastructures (DOAB/OAPEN, PKP and OpenCitations)  are actively pursuing long-term funding strategies and fostering connections with existing and future supporting organisations. Their work continues, and has accelerated over the years, and we need them as part of a healthy Open Science ecosystem.

While DOAB/OAPEN has already reached its SCOSS funding target, both PKP and OpenCitations still need additional financial support to help reach their funding target before the end of this year. We strongly encourage you to help them as this funding ultimately helps the wider OS community….”

Discovering book publishing platforms (webinar recording) | publishOA.ie on YouTube

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PublishOA.ie, co-led by the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, is pleased to share a webinar which gives an introduction to different publishing platforms for books.

The webinar included demos from platform providers Coko Foundation (Ketida), Manifold, and The Public Knowledge Project’s Open Monograph Press (PKP/OMP), and is part of PublishOA.ie’s mission of evaluating the feasibility of establishing a national publishing platform in Ireland.

If you are involved in book publishing or curious about open source systems, this webinar will give you the opportunity to see different platforms in action and put questions directly to the teams involved. Each platform is presented, followed by a Q&A session.

– Ketida is produced by the Coko Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to use to use Open Source to transform how knowledge is created, improved, and shared.

– Manifold is a collaboration between the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding, and each group brings a unique perspective to the project: scholarship, publishing, and technology. It is 100 percent open source and free.

– PKP/OMP produces free, open source software to disseminate research and manage the entire scholarly publishing workflow from submission to indexing.

SSHRC renews its support of Coalition Publica for the Development of Open Access – Public Knowledge Project

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“This ongoing investment will build on Coalition Publica’s success in advancing the discoverability and impact of social sciences and humanities research in Canada and abroad.

Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the renewal of SSHRC funding to contribute to its ongoing operations for the next six years (2023-2029). With this support, Coalition Publica will continue to develop its services for journals, including interoperability and compliance with international standards, and contribute to research on the scholarly publishing landscape.

Created by the Érudit Consortium and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Coalition Publica is a pan-Canadian partnership that brings together key players in scholarly publishing and research in Canada and abroad, in support of an equitable, open and sustainable ecosystem for scholarly communication….”

SSHRC renews its support of Coalition Publica for the Development of Open Access — Coalition Publica

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“Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the renewal of SSHRC funding to contribute to its ongoing operations for the next six years (2023-2029). With this support, Coalition Publica will continue to develop its services for journals, including interoperability and compliance with international standards, and contribute to research on the scholarly publishing landscape.

Created by the Érudit Consortium and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Coalition Publica is a pan-Canadian partnership that brings together key players in scholarly publishing and research in Canada and abroad, in support of an equitable, open and sustainable ecosystem for scholarly communication….”

Coalition Publica to host Open Access Week webinar: Advancing research visibility through National Portals – Public Knowledge Project

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“Join the Public Knowledge Project and Érudit as they celebrate 25 years by bringing you timely programming on pivotal topics in scholarly communications and publishing.

On October 26, during Open Access Week, join panelists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden to discuss national portals – collections of journals that are published within a geographic location that combine their metadata, and sometimes content, in a single interface.

This panel discussion brings together representatives from nascent and mature national portal projects to shed light on the benefits, challenges, and strategies for effectively establishing and maintaining these critical platforms….”

PKP Celebrates Software Freedom Day and 25 years of FOSS – Public Knowledge Project

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“This September 16th, 2023, is Software Freedom Day, an annual world-wide celebration coordinated by the Digital Freedom Foundation to raise awareness of what it means to use free software and to encourage its use.

At the same time, PKP celebrates a quarter of a century developing and maintaining free and open software with the scholarly publishing community. Since its very beginnings, inspired by the inability to share research resources publicly and openly, PKP has decidedly taken action to distribute its applications freely.

In this blog post, PKP joins in on the celebrations, and takes a moment to share a key message: PKP is and always will be dedicated to the development of free software….”

Invitation to join PKP’s Community Contributor Pathway | Public Knowledge Project

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PKP invites you to become a Community Contributor through our pathway!

At PKP, we rely on the support of a diverse and enthusiastic community of contributors to strengthen and expand our projects. Our mission is to increase scholarly publishing access, quality, and diversity. 

Ways to Contribute

When you become a Community Contributor at PKP, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a variety of exciting and meaningful ways:

Join an Interest Group or Committee: Become part of our dynamic committees, such as the Documentation Interest Group (DIG), Education Interest Group (EIG), Multilingualism Interest Group (MIG), Members Committee (MC), Technical Committee (TC), or Advisory Committee (AC). Each group plays a crucial role in shaping the future of PKP’s initiatives.
Share Your Expertise on the Community Forum: Respond to support inquiries and engage in lively discussions on our Community Forum. 
Contribute Code: Help enhance our projects by developing plugins and contributing to the ongoing development of PKP’s tools and platforms.

Benefits of becoming a Community Contributor

By taking the Community Contributor pathway, you gain access to exclusive membership benefits. One exciting perk is the chance to apply for our scholarship to collaborate with the PKP community during our in-person sprints.

 

Call for libraries to participate in KOALA funding round – Public Knowledge Project

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“PKP partner TIB in Germany, is asking academic libraries to collectively fund seven open access journals from quantum physics, computer science, and mathematics in order to help these journals adhere to high publishing standards and to publish without author fees. PKP supports this approach and encourages those interested to answer the call for libraries to participate in the KOALA funding round by contacting TIB….”

<strong>Using Open Monograph Press for open access book publishing at Scottish institutions</strong> – Open Access Books Network

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“Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is a new fully open access and not-for-profit press owned and managed by 18 Scottish academic libraries, co-ordinated through the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL). The Press aims to provide a clear and cost-effective route for researchers at Scottish HEIs to make their work freely available to a global audience. We will initially focus on publishing monographs, mainly due to changing funder requirements around OA for books (e.g. the UKRI policy). In this part of the blog post I will discuss why SUP decided to use OMP as our platform and talk about our experiences of using the platform so far….”

PKP is hiring an Associate Director of Publishing Services – Public Knowledge Project

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“The Associate Director, Publishing Services provides operational direction for PKP’s Publishing Services (PKP|PS) activities, including leading a team of professional and support staff and supporting the development and growth of programs and services to position PKP|PS as a trusted service provider and leader in the field of scholarly publishing.

The role manages an annual operating budget and is responsible for establishing and ensuring that revenue and expense targets are met. As part of PKP’s strategic leadership team, the Associate Director is responsible for planning the long-term sustainability of PKP, including developing and implementing strategies to advance PKP priorities and opportunities, improve operations, and launch initiatives, products, and services. The role establishes processes for client engagement, business development, and service delivery, and reporting on PKP|PS activities….”

NWO to support three new open infrastructures | NWO

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Open science benefits from an open infrastructure and thriving networks and communities that support the scientific community in sharing publications, data and software openly. NWO’s support to the following four organisations contributes to this.

Open science Infrastructures

OpenCitations

OpenCitations is a non-profit organisation dedicated to publishing open bibliographic and citation data using Linked Data technologies. Providing an open database of citations reduces the reliance on commercial products for doing bibliometric research and citation measurement.

Research Organization Registry (ROR)

ROR is a global, open registry for identifying research organisations run by the academic community. ROR makes it easy for any person or system to standardise institutional names and link research organisations to researchers and research outputs. ROR is also one of the recommended Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in the NWO PID Strategy.

Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

PKP is a research and development initiative of Simon Fraser University in Canada that develops the leading open source publishing software Open Journal Systems (OJS). More than 30,000 open access journals worldwide use this software. This makes it an essential infrastructure in the open access publishing landscape.

Netherlands Reproducibility Network (NLRN)

NLRN aims to increase knowledge on the transparency and reproducibility of research and to coordinate, support and strengthen initiatives and developments in this field in order to improve the quality and efficiency of research in the Netherlands. NLRN is a member of the international network of national reproducibility networks.

Open science stands for the transition to a more open and participatory research practice in which publications, data, software and other forms of scientific information are shared and made available for reuse at the earliest possible stage. Open science leads to greater impact, both on science and on society. NWO believes that publicly funded research should be openly available and is actively contributing to the transition to open science.

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NWO supports a number of non-profit, community-led initiatives aimed at renewing the scientific communication system. See more details on these infrastructures.

PKP joins £5.8 million project for open access books: Open Book Futures (OBF) – Public Knowledge Project

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“PKP joins a new project that works to increase access to valuable research and sustainability for the future of open access books, which is set to receive more than £5.8 million in funding.

Led by Lancaster University, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools and practices that enable both academics and the wider public to make more and better use of books published on an Open Access basis. Open Access books can be accessed and used online free of charge….”