California Digital Library joins PKP as major development partner in open access scholarly publishing

The SPARC OA Forum received this announcement of a new collaboration,,, “As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts 
and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves 
at a crossroads between publishers and faculty -- and eagerly working to 
provide new solutions to entrenched problems.  The California Digital 
Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University 
of California system, focuses on supporting open source publishing 
infrastructure through a major development partnership with the Public 
Knowledge Project (PKP).... As a result of this agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite — Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year...”