[GOAL] The Public Knowledge Project: Reflections and Directions After Two Decades

[Juan Pablo Alperin]

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to share our reflections on a
community consultation process that saw us receive feedback from a wide
range of stakeholders, including scholarly communications experts and past,
present, and potential users of PKP software and services. The community
consultation was led by the consulting firm BlueSky to BluePrint, with its
principal, Nancy Maron, with the support of the Laura and John Arnold
Foundation.

The attached report (available at the URL below), presents both the
opportunities and challenges that PKP faces as an academic-led project
trying to bring open source and community-based solutions for scholarly
communications and open access. It also outlines the actions that PKP
intends to take as it continues to operate in three main areas:

   1. Open Source Software;
   2. Research, education and advocacy; and
   3. PKP Publishing Services.

As the attached report explains, PKP is committed to bringing its
activities in these areas together in ways that reinforce each other and
are philosophically coherent and consistent with the principles that
underlie the open access community.

As we conclude this planning phase, PKP welcomes feedback in the form of
online annotations (using Hypothesis on the report itself
<https://pkp.sfu.ca/files/arnoldstudyreport2018/viewer/web/pkpviewer.html?file=%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2FPKPReflectionsAndDirections2018.pdf#page=1>),
public comments (on this page
<https://pkp.sfu.ca/reflections-and-directions-2018/>), or via private
feedback (on this form <https://pkp.sfu.ca/feedback/>). Your comments will
ensure PKP has the best possible plan to carry it into its third decade.

The report and links can all be found here:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/reflections-and-directions-2018/
BlueSky to BluePrint's report can be found here:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/findings-from-community-consultation-2018

-- Juan Pablo Alperin, on behalf of the PKP Team

Twitter: @pkp <https://twitter.com/pkp>
Email: pkp.contact at gmail.com
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