PKP, ABEC, and SciELO to host event in Brazil

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The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) partners with the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to invite the academic community of scientific journals to participate in the PKP Event, to improve knowledge, best practices, and technological improvements for the use of PKP's Open Journal Systems (OJS). 

This event is part of the commemorative calendar of the 25th anniversary of the PKP and the SciELO Program.

Brazil, one of the most significant users of OJS in the world, will host the PKP Event, on June 26 and 27, 2023, at Instituto Biologico in São Paulo.

The meeting is an excellent opportunity to meet and work with users of the OJS system in Brazil, improve its use for scientific journals, and implement technological improvements in the platform. Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences, participate in workshops and work in groups.

The event is directed at editors, programmers, OJS administrators, and other members of editorial teams of scientific journals that use the system. Invited participants must be willing to share their problems, support other participants, and work on their journals.

It is important to emphasize that the PKP Event is not a congress or conference but a set of workshops conducted by the participants. Despite having plenary sessions to discuss the challenges and future of the OJS, the structure will include workshops in which each participant will explore and implement changes in their journals. In addition, participants will be able to work in groups on their topics of interest.

PKP event

Date: June 26 and 27, 2023

Hours: 9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm

Location: Instituto Biológico, Avenida Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves, 1252 Vila Mariana, city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Participation requirements:

• Be working in a scientific journal published in Brazil
• The scientific journal must use OJS version 3.1 or higher
• Be ready to make changes or implement new OJS features in your journal
• Be willing to lead a workshop on running journals using OJS (or tools in conjunction with OJS)
• Participate in workshops conducted by other participants
• Contribute to the OJS user community in Brazil

Among the suggested workshops are:

• DOI and ORCID setup and use within OJS
• PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) Setup
• Best practices for publishing multilingual scientific journals
• XML embedding
• Support for updating OJS to new versions
• Work on creating or translating documentation
• Implementation of new plugins

The theme of each workshop will be defined together with the selected guest participants and announced before the start so that participants have time to prepare the materials. The goal is to have a two-day work schedule that allows participants to conclude the event with improvements in their scientific journals.

Places are limited. Participation is free, and interested parties must register as guests using the registration form by clicking the button below.

Invited participants will be selected by a committee formed by PKP, ABEC Brasil, and SciELO members to increase the diversity of participants with different profiles, experiences, disciplines, and coming from various regions of the country.

There will be support for travel and accommodation expenses for some participants. Applicants must indicate the need for resources on the application form if required.

Organizing Committee

• Juan Pablo Alperin, PKP
• Alejandra Casas, PKP
• Alex Mendonça, SciELO
• Sigmar Rode, ABEC Brasil
• Germana Barata, ABEC Brasil, Unicamp
• Gildenir Santos, Unicamp Journals Portal
• Milton Shintaku, IBICT

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