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Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander

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PKP and CrossRefTwo P’s in a Cross

shared characteristics1. Both been around since the late 1990's

2. Both small mission-driven organizations

3. Both have distributed teams

4. Both build key infrastructure for scholarly publishing activities

5. Everyone always thinks they are bigger than they actually are

6. People confuse their employees for others

common assumptions1. That scholarly endeavors are worthwhile pursuits for

advancing human thinking and understanding.

2. The scholarly communication is an important piece of the scholarly endeavors.

3. That good scholarly communication makes for better scholarship

4. That the scholarly record is the foundation of those communications

5. That infrastructure can ensure the integrity, completeness, and usefulness of the scholarly record

in short

both organizations believe that by building and improving scholarly infrastructure, we are improving science and scholarship, and thereby having a positive effect on the world.

OJS is a

publishing platform which is a key piece of

scholarly infrastructureand infrastructure

improves scholarly communicationtherefore

OJS makes the world a better place

how PKP helps

1. By helping more people use the infrastructure

2. by making the infrastructure better

with some nuance

1. By increasing participation in scholarship, both in terms of the those who publish and those who read; and

2. By facilitating the use of standards and best practices.

develops open source software and conducts research to

improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing

PKP

develops open source software and conducts research to

improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing

PKP: CrossRef

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thank you.@juancommander @pkp