Crossref and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have entered a new phase of their long-standing collaboration, setting objectives to expand metadata capacities and support scholarly publishing communities worldwide.
The renewed partnership focuses on three areas: enhancing metadata registration workflows in Open Journal Systems (OJS) and developing a Crossref plug-in for Open Monograph Press (OMP); jointly engaging the community to transition OJS users to the upcoming Long-Term Support version of OJS, which enable richer metadata registration; and creating a self-paced PKP School course for system administrators.
The organizations previously collaborated on metadata tools development in 2020, which streamlined Crossref integration in OJS. Thousands of Crossref members, many from resource-constrained institutions, rely on OJS for metadata registration. The new initiatives aim to broaden participation in the research nexus by making tools more accessible and by offering targeted training.
Crossref and PKP expect the partnership to strengthen open scholarship by aligning technological improvements with community capacity-building, enabling a more inclusive and comprehensive metadata environment.
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