The fourth in the series of EIFL webinars about using Open Journal Systems (OJS), free and open source software that facilitates the management and publishing of scholarly journals, will show how collaboration between the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), which developed OJS, can help increase the visibility of OA journal content.

DOAJ and PKP experts will explain how clear journal information and policies help journals get indexed in DOAJ, why good metadata matters, and how OJS makes it easier for journals to meet DOAJ’s acceptance criteria. Useful plugins available in the OJS Plugin Gallery that can help automate tasks like sending metadata to DOAJ and registering Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) will also be discussed. Additionally, we’ll introduce the PKP Community Forum, a valuable resource for connecting with fellow open access publishers and learning from their experiences.

• Date and time: 23 April 2025, 12:00 UTC
• To register: You can register here
• Presenters:
  • Dominic Mitchell, Deputy Director and Platform Manager at DOAJ
  • Mariya Maistrovskaya, Senior Publication Support Specialist at PKP

See recordings and slides of the first and second webinars. The third webinar will take place on 25 March.