About the Journals
The journals program is a collaboration between Stanford University Press (SUP) and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). Its mission is to expand sustainable Open Access (OA) models of journal publishing to advance the academic community’s claim on the future of scholarly publishing.
The Public Knowledge Project, founded in 1998 and based at Simon Fraser University (SFU), has long been active on the Stanford campus through its founder, Stanford’s Khosla Family Professor of Education Emeritus, John Willinsky. PKP developed Open Journal System (OJS), an open-source platform that manages the editorial workflow and publishing platform for over 34,000 journals.
The journals program, developed in consultation with the Office of Scholarly Communications at the Stanford Libraries, is a response to the rapidly increasing burdens imposed on commercial publishers’ journal editors and their boards in the form of higher article processing charges (APCs) and increased publication rates. The program utilizes the strengths and resources of two long-established university organizations to provide journals with an experienced publisher and platform developer that offer journals both subscribe-to-open (S2O) and reasonably priced APC paths, increasing access for authors and readers.