Open Monograph Press (OMP) for Open Education

PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free, community-driven software, Open Monograph Press (OMP). UPDATE: This post was updated March 6th, 2025 for #OEWeek25.

Open Education Week is an annual, global event dedicated to advocating for access to and reach of education. Those working in Open Education have the opportunity to share their projects, resources, and achievements. PKP is known for facilitating public knowledge, and we are pleased to join the celebration.

The event raises awareness among educators, practitioners, and students. However, PKP takes a moment to highlight the importance of open infrastructure as a driver of open education initiatives. Specifically, PKP's community-driven free software, Open Monograph Press (OMP), is providing educators around the globe with a quality option for publishing Open Education Resources (OERs).

Leveraging Open Monograph Press (OMP) for Open Education

What is Open Monograph Press (OMP)? OMP is the full, end-to-end solution for publishing books with full metadata, enabling global dissemination and discovery. A single, intuitive workflow guides the entire process, from submissions to reviewing to publishing.

OMP is not the product of a few minds at a single institution. Rather, it is developed and maintained by a world-wide community of contributors with diverse knowledge, expertise, and needs. Contributors come together via PKP, which is a community-governed project that calls Simon Fraser University its institutional home as an SFU Core Research Facility. That said, OMP (or any PKP software), is not, and never will be "for sale."

Who's using OMP?

Educators use OMP around the world, thus it is impossible to showcase all of them here! Let's start with an example from the PKP website, and then take a small tour around the globe. 

Heidelberg University Publishing runs an open access publishing service using OMP. They publish about 150 open access monographs and edited volumes every year. Further, they are home to heiBOOKS, and three specialist information services, namely Art – Photography – Design, Ancient History (Propylaeum) and South Asia (FID4SA).

For the rest of the tour, images and links are from the publishers' web catalogues. Quotes are from the publishers' "About" pages.

University of Cape Town Open Access Monographs, Africa

"UCT Libraries has taken on the role of publisher to meet campus demand for digital publishing platforms to support e-journals, conference proceedings, monographs and textbooks. It is… the only one in Africa to offer the service of publishing monographs that might have otherwise been placed on websites and remained unpublished."

Universidad Veracruzana Libros Pedagogía y educación, Mexico

"Nuestra Editorial es un espacio donde escritores de todo el orbe y en diferentes lenguas, pueden convivir y enriquecer nuestra cultura y nuestra visión universal del mundo. Y es un espacio al que tú que visitas nuestro portal, puedes acercarte y ser parte de él, a través de las lecturas que te ofrecemos."

"Our Publishing House is a space where writers from all over the world and in different languages can coexist and enrich our culture and our universal vision of the world. And it is a space that you who visit our portal can come closer to and be a part of, through the readings we offer you."

TU Delft Open Publishing – Textbooks, Netherlands

"An Open Textbook is a dynamic educational publication that can easily be shared, extended and kept up-to-date by the authors. Producing Open Textbook allows the TU Delft to showcase the range of expertise that is available at the university. More importantly, it helps teaching staff to further establish themselves as experts in their field and to be more effective teachers."

Free University of Berlin Language Science Press, Germany

"We publish 30 monographs and edited volumes a year. Our 29 series are supported by a worldwide network… Over 1000 linguists have published a book or a chapter with Language Science Press… There are no fees for authors or readers (Platinum / Diamond Open Access)."

ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC, Slovenia

"Založba ZRC, as a publishing unit of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), public and non-profit institution, is the main publishing house of the ZRC SAZU institutes. It specialises in academic publications, particularly in the humanities, but also in the social and natural sciences, as well as in social medicine and related sciences."

University of Warwick Press, England

"The University of Warwick Press (UWP) is an open access, digital, publisher of academic journals and books… we are committed to open access dissemination of research and teaching materials while maintaining the academic quality of the work we disseminate.  The press is designed to be a place where researchers and academics can experiment and innovate their approach to publishing."

Cappelen Damm Akademisk's NOASP, Norway

"The research publishing division at Cappelen Damm Akademisk is a dedicated team of editors at that offer specialised solutions for open access publishing of anthologies, monographs and scholarly journals on our customized publising platform, NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing). Our vision is to be the Nordic region's leading source of expertise within this fast-growing area and to provide the academic community with the best possible open access publishing services."

Airlangga University Press, Indonesia

"Kami merupakan penerbit yang bernaung di bawah Universitas Airlangga. Melalui bidang penerbitan, AUP diharapkan mampu meningkatkan produktivitas dosen dan akademisi khususnya di lingkungan Universitas Airlangga dalam menerbitkan karya-karya terbarunya untuk diteruskan kepada masyarakat secara luas."

"We are a publisher under the auspices of Airlangga University. Through the field of publishing, AUP is expected to be able to increase the productivity of lecturers and academics, especially in the Airlangga University environment, in publishing their latest works to be forwarded to the wider community."

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – Editora UFPE, Brazil

"A Editora UFPE, enquanto importante órgão suplementar da UFPE, é responsável pelo apoio à produção intelectual dos docentes e pesquisadores da Universidade e pela publicação digital e impressa de livros… a Editora colabora para o processo formativo dos alunos da UFPE nas diversas áreas compreendidas pelo fazer editorial, como letras, design, ciência da informação, biblioteconomia e tecnologia, entre outras."

"The UFPE Press, as an important supplementary body of UFPE, is responsible for supporting the intellectual production of the University's professors and researchers and for the digital and printed publication of books… the Press collaborates in the training process of UFPE students in the various areas covered by editorial work, such as literature, design, information science, library science and technology, among others."

Queen's University Library Theory and History of Education Monograph Series, Canada

"The… Series evolved from the THEIRG open access journal: Encounters in Theory and History of Education, established in 2000. This well-indexed journal has an international readership spanning more than 30 countries, from Argentina to New Zealand, from Albania to the United Kingdom… (welcoming) manuscripts and, on occasion, edited volumes with a compelling narrative on the history of education, philosophy of education, interdisciplinary perspectives on educational theory, sociological historical approaches, and intellectual history of education."

More Presses and Projects

Learn more about the new Scottish Universities Press and Edinburgh Diamond using OMP at this feature post from the Open Access Book Network 

SFU uses OMP to bring together all these resources, which themselves use Open Journal Systems (OJS) or OMP: Archaeology Press Books, SFU Library Digital Publishing Book Collection, Faculty Journals, Student Journals and Course Projects

The examples in this post are only a small selection of folks using PKP software to share knowledge and education openly — check out the latest beacon data for more OMP installations around the world (filter by OMP)

Learn more about OMP

Learn more about OMP 3.4 through PKP's Docs Hub

Check OMP code, pull requests, actions and more on PKP GitHub

Learn more about OMP through PKP on YouTube

Join a world-wide community of OMP users at the PKP Community Forum

Check out the OMP review in progress

Join the upcoming OMP Town Hall on March 12th, 2025 (and register to get the recording even if you can't make it)

Inquire about OMP hosting through PKP

Happy Open Education Week and may your knowledge sharing journeys be fruitful!

Download assets to share from the OE Global website's OE Week Visuals Kit.

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