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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.

Our Software

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.

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For Journals

Manage your entire submission, peer review, and production workflow with the world’s most widely used end-to-end journal publishing platform.

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For Preprints

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

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For Presses

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

Meet Our Community

See how our partners and colleagues in scholarly communications use OJS, OMP and OPS to manage their workflow and adapt the software to meet their needs.

“OJS and OMP are easy to understand publishing software solutions for both editors and administrators… Setting up new journals is extremely fast and there are numerous options to customize them, be it for the layout or for additional functions.”

— Dr. Maria Effinger, heiUP

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.

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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.

Get Help & Support

Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training resources, including how to set up a journal, best practices in publishing, and a full video course for editors.

Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software, along with helpful guides on how to get indexed, keeping your software up-to-date and secure, and a whole lot more.

Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our community asks and answers questions, and shares tips on how to achieve their publishing goals.