Collaborative Knowledge Foundation and PKP Announce Strategic Relationship

PKP is pleased to announce the commencement of a strategic relationship with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.  The CKF’s mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. CKF is building open source solutions in scholarly knowledge production that foster collaboration, integrity and speed. They are also interested in developing new models of research communication by engaging with relevant communities and stakeholders through the introduction of pilots and experiments in data sharing, openness, and reproducibility. These activities resonate with PKP’s advocacy and software development activities and  both parties are excited with the prospects to encourage collaboration amongst our respective development teams, and our collective networks, partners and user communities with an interest and commitment to “open” tools and technologies.

John Willinsky, PKP’s founder and director stated, “We’re delighted to be working in association with CFK’s team, and happy to be able to share what we know about developing and serving the broad global community of journals committed to open access, while being interested in exploring how such innovations can strengthen what that community can offer the world.”

Kristen Ratan, CKF’s co-founder stated: “We are excited to launch our new community with a partnership with PKP. The organizations are aligned in mission and approach and we look forward to taking the next step in the evolution of open scholarship together.”

About the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

CKF is a California based Not-For-Profit co-founded in October 2015 by Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde.  Kristen and Adam collectively possess extensive experience in the scholarly publishing sector and in the development of many successful open source initiatives.  Both have worked at an array of publishing organizations — HighWire, Atypon, PLOS, BookSprints, Floss Manuals — over the past 20 years.  More information about CKF is available at http://coko.foundation/

About PKP

The Public Knowledge Project was established in 1998 at the University of British Columbia. Since that time PKP has expanded and evolved into an international and virtual operation with two institutional anchors at Stanford University and Simon Fraser University Library. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal’s readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale. More information about PKP and its software and services is available at http://pkp.sfu.ca.