Publishing Software

For Scholars, By Scholars

Reliable publishing solutions that put control of scholarly publishing back into the hands of researchers and academics.

Own your platform

All of our software is open source, non-commercial, and driven by our community of researchers and publishers. It cannot be acquired and commercialized because our licensing prevents it.rn

Fit your budget

Run any size project, from a single journal to the largest publishing platform, with software that can be deployed on shared hosting, cloud providers, and everything in-between. We can even host it for you.

Reach everyone

Publish for a global community of scholars committed to bibliodiversity, with translations in 30+ languages, multilingual publications, and support for industry standards like DOI, ORCID, OAI-PMH, ONIX, and more.

We provide three platforms for managing the researcher-to-reader workflow, empowering scholarly publishers who work with preprints, journals and books — or all of them at once.

For Journals

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is the world’s most widely used journal management and publishing software.

For Books

Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an end-to-end solution for publishing books with full metadata.

For Preprints

Open Preprint Systems (OPS) provides everything needed to run a fully-featured preprint server for researchers.

For Everyone, Everywhere

Whether publishing traditional journals and monographs, or pursuing novel publishing models, our software is used around the world to run open access scholarly journals, presses and preprint servers.

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Showcases

Arctic Review on Law and Politics Homepage

NOASP

Journal of Digital Social Research

Athenea Digital

Trusted by institutions around the world

PKP’s open source software is being used around the globe – improving the quality and access to academic research.

Hosting & Other Services

Want to focus on publishing and have the technical work of installation, hosting, troubleshooting, and upgrades taken care of? PKP offers complete hosting and support plans for OJS, OMP, and OPS, plus training, consulting, and custom development.

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