The Public Knowledge Project is a multi-university initiative to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.
Our flagship software for open access journal publishing, used by more than 10,000 journals worldwide.
A visual, step-by-step guide to managing a journal with Open Journal Systems. View Now
An easy-to-follow checklist of all the steps you’ll need to take to launch a successful journal. View Now
Getting Found, Staying Found highlights many aspects of the publishing process that are important for increasing your journal’s “findability” and building a wider audience. Moreover, it will also show you how to ensure reliable and ongoing access to your valuable content. Much of the information in this resource is intended to be generic and could be applied to any journal, using any software platform. View Now
This guide provides advice for users of PKP applications on how to approach the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). View Now
PKP School is an online, open, self-paced collection of courses designed to help improve the quality of scholarly publishing around the world.
Learn how you can take advantage of PKP’s partnership with Crossref to help publishers and journals take advantage of Crossref’s research indexing service. View Now
Find all of our documentation for earlier versions of Open Journal Systems. View Now
An introduction to building custom themes for Open Journal Systems 3.0+ and OMP 1.2+. It is written for web developers who wish to tailor the look and feel of their journal or press with custom PHP, HTML and CSS code. View Now
Available in Português Brasileiro.
Helpful hints and complete technical references for using OJS 3’s REST API. View Now
Component library, documentation and style guide for developers working with the user interface for OJS 3’s editorial backend. View Now
Help guides for older versions of our journal management software. We recommend you upgrade to OJS 3.
A visual, step-by-step guide to managing a journal with Open Journal Systems 2.x. View Now
This series of video courses is for journal editors who need to learn how to perform all of the basic editorial tasks in OJS 2 quickly. View Now
Learn how you can take advantage of PKP’s partnership with Crossref to help publishers and journals take advantage of Crossref’s research indexing service. View Now
An OJS 2 guide on how to import and export user information, published article data, and more. View Now
An extensive document regarding versions 2.x of the OJS platform. View Now
Usage guides and documentation for our monograph publishing software.
A step-by-step guide to managing a press with the legacy version of Open Monograph Press. View now
Learning OMP 3 is currently in development. Coming soon.
This guide provides advice for users of PKP applications on how to approach the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). View Now
This resource contains documentation generated automatically from the OMP source code. View Now
An introduction to building custom themes for Open Journal Systems 3.0+ and OMP 1.2+. It is written for web developers who wish to tailor the look and feel of their journal or press with custom PHP, HTML and CSS code. View Now
Available in Português Brasileiro.
Helpful hints and technical references for using OMP’s REST API. View Now
Component library, documentation and style guide for developers working with the user interface for OMP’s editorial backend. View Now
Usage guides and documentation for our scholarly conference software.
Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference. Learn more about OCS.
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