PKP’s community newsletter Archipelago issue 11 is here!
This issue of Archipelago opens with a look back at a year of meaningful progress across software, research, and community with PKP’s 2025 Annual Report. We also share the latest OJS Beacon data, now tracking 58,000 journals across 156 countries, and announce PKP’s stewardship of citeproc-php.
Famira Racy @fracy writes about how upgrading OJS is key to connecting with the ecosystem of repositories, funders, institutions, indexing services, researcher profiles, and metadata registries, and shares a collection of OJS 3.5 upgrading resources.
Magnus Lu sits down with Urooj Nizami to talk about the craft of technical writing, and our Development Dispatch covers the new editing and production features in OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.6. Magnus also shares a snapshot of the first PKP Virtual Sprint which kickstarted plugin improvements.
Israel Cefrin @israel.cefrin shares how PKP accessibility continues to advance as we move from a completed independent audit to concrete remediation work across our publishing platforms, guided by disabled users, assistive technology testing, and evolving global accessibility legislation.
There is much more in the newsletter, like Learning OJS 3.5 with PKP School, Mark Huskisson’s ‘From Infrastructure to Commons’ article, Coalition Publica news, and more.
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