The Public Knowledge Project is a multi-university initiative to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.
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 30,000 journals worldwide.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): How to use PKP software and common troubleshooting issues.
Short Guide to Starting a New Journal: A short guide for editors wishing to launch a new journal.
Journal policies and workflows: A guide to common journal practices.
PKP Help Guide: A guide to using PKP’s help resources to answer questions and troubleshoot issues.
A visual, step-by-step guide to managing a journal with Open Journal Systems. View Now
Available in (3.1) العربية, Português (3.3), Español (3.1), Français (3.2), and Suomi (3.1).
Guides to host and deploy OJS, write themes and plugins, and contribute new features for the application. View Now
In this guide, we describe some of the changes between OJS 2 and OJS 3 and suggest steps for planning and completing your migration. View Now
Available in Español.
This guide gives advice and information on how to make your journal attractive, accessible, and unique. It explains how to customize existing themes, create CSS files, and select images and fonts to suit your audience and content. View Now
The Creating Accessible Content guide covers the general principles of creating universally accessible content published on the web. View Now
Available in Português.
These guides explain various aspects of discoverability and sustainability practices that can be employed around OJS journals, as well as detailed guides related to Google Scholar Indexing and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
This is a guide for post-secondary course instructors interested in using Open Journal Systems (OJS) for the creation of course journals. View Now
The PKP Student Journal Toolkit provides guidance to students interested in creating or joining a student journal. View Now
PKP School is a guided series of training videos on setting up a journal and editorial workflow in OJS 3.1, available in English and Spanish. Additional multilingual video tutorials made by users are available on PKP’s YouTube channel.
These guides explain how to use OJS plugins. Plugins integrate OJS with services offered by PKP partner organizations.
External resources on open access and scholarly publishing and how to start and manage a journal or publishing program.
These guides explain how configure PKP software for multiple languages as well as publishing in multiple languages, and provides guidance to users who want to create or edit a translation of a PKP software application or related documentation.
Resources about legislation and international regulation that online publishing might be subject to comply.
Help guides for older versions of our journal management software. We recommend you upgrade to OJS 3.
In this guide, we describe some of the changes between OJS 2 and OJS 3 and suggest steps for planning and completing your migration. View Now
For an overview of features you can look forward to seeing in OJS 3, see OJS 3 Features Overview. Watch Now
Available in Español.
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
OJS supports the use of the PayPal online payment system for secure online financial transactions. This guide outlines the basic steps in getting this up and running. View Now
Available in العربية.
An extensive document regarding versions 2.x of the OJS platform. View Now
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