From: Pierre Mounier <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:46:12 +0100

http://oep.hypotheses.org/1283

OpenEdition is proud to support the Canadian project PKP (Public
Knowledge Project) and thereby contribute to the development of open
source solutions for digital publishing. This partnership demonstrates
the shared vision of OpenEdition and PKP to promote open access
academic and scientific publishing by providing innovative and
scalable professional solutions.

OpenEdition's digital publishing platforms, OpenEdition Books,
Revues.org and Calenda, are run using Lodel, an online content
management software (CMS) designed specifically for the digital
publication of long and complex texts within a highly structured
editorial environment. This solution has been adopted by 400 journals
and 35 academic publishers. OpenEdition intends to strengthen and
complement its provision of services in terms of editorial workflow
thanks to the open source solutions developed by PKP: OJS (Open
Journal Systems) and OMP (Open Monograph Press).

Translated into 32 languages, OJS makes it easier for members of
international editorial teams to collaborate. It allows academic
journals to manage the different phases of editing a manuscript, while
improving the organization and efficiency of the editorial process.
Building on the success of OJS, PKP has continued to innovate, and in
2013 released the OMP software. Aimed at university presses and
academic publishers, the software provides a clear and intuitive
workflow for organizing all the different stages of submitting
manuscripts and revising, editing and producing books.

Key aspects of the partnership:

OpenEdition contributes to the evolution of features of PKP's
editorial workflow management solutions by participating in the OMP
Early Adopters program.

OpenEdition contributes to the translation of interfaces and user
documentation into French.

As a Bronze sponsor, OpenEdition provides financial support to PKP and
becomes a member of its commission of partners.

PKP

The Public Knowledge Project is a collective of academics, librarians
and technical experts that, since 1998, has been building free, open
source software publishing platforms which provide an alternative to
commercial and subscription-based routes to scholarly communication.
Its various digital platforms provide a guided path through the
editorial workflow of submission, review, editing, publishing and
indexing. PKP is best known for developing and maintaining Open
Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press and Open Conference Systems. The
project's goal from the outset was to find ways of increasing public
and global access to research and scholarship. As such, it was an
early participant in the open access movement that seeks to develop
ways of creating peer-reviewed journals that do not charge readers for
access to their content. PKP continues to be a major actor in the
scholarly publishing community.

OpenEdition

OpenEdition (www.openedition.org) brings together four complementary
publication and information platforms for the humanities and social
sciences: OpenEdition Books (books series), Revues.org  (academic
journals), Hypothèses (research blogs), Calenda(academic
announcements). These four platforms constitute a complete
infrastructure for academic communication. Since 2011 OpenEdition has
proposed a commercial programme for open access content, OpenEdition
Freemium, to libraries and university institutions. OpenEdition is
developed by the Center for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo), an
initiative supported by the French Ministry of Research and four
prestigious academic institutions: the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University (AMU), the École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Avignon and Vaucluse
University. In 2012, OpenEdition received the Label Equipex future
investment award.

OpenEdition has a longstanding policy to partner with and support open
access and open source initiatives. To this end, OpenEdition is a
member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), Sparc
Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and
CenterNet (an international network of digital humanities centers). It
provides financial support to the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access
Journals), Framasoft (a French network dedicating to promoting open
software) and the AFUL (Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de
Logiciels Libres).


Pierre Mounier
Directeur adjoint - Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte
Associate Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing

EHESS
190-198 avenue de France
75244 Paris cedex 13
Bureau/Office 447
Mob. +33 (0)6 61 98 31 86
Twitter : @piotrr70