Mishra, Anil KumarKumar, Satish2023-07-122025-02-032023-07-1220151-63102-455-8https://dspacenew8-imu.refread.com/handle/123456789/1899Commercial publishers are increasing the subscription prices of journals, the libraries attached touniversities, colleges and R&D institutions are finding it very difficult to subscribe the core journals to cater tothe knowledge requirements of their stakeholders. The Open Journal System helps us to publish and manage theentire publishing process of a journal; the Academic institutions can do this without any additional funding.This paper describes about an initiative; started by the Public Knowledge Projecten-USOpen Journal SystemPublic Knowledge ProjectPKPPKP and its open journal system: an initiative in open access scholarly environmentBook chapter