The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a non-profit research initiative that is focused on the importance of making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies, and on developing strategies for making this possible including software solutions.
From the project web site:<blockquote>PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing - sfu.ca 
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It is a partnership between the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, the University of Pittsburgh, Ontario Council of University Libraries, the California Digital Library and the School of Education at Stanford University.
It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online environments. - wikipedia
# Software
The PKP's suite of software includes four separate, but inter-related applications to demonstrate the feasibility of open access: - Open Journal Systems - Open Conference Systems - PKP Open Archives Harvester - Open Monograph Press
PKP briefly experimented with a fifth application, Lemon8-XML, but has since opted to incorporate the XML functionality into the existing applications. All of the products are open source and freely available to anyone interested in using them - wikipedia
They share similar technical requirements (PHP, MySQL, Apache or Microsoft IIS 6, and a Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, or Windows operating system) and need only a minimal level of technical expertise to get up and running. In addition, the software is well supported with a free, online support forum and a growing body of publications and documentation is available on the project web site.
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