Hi folks.
If you were at Access on the Saturday morning you heard Lynn
Copeland's mention of the PKP Conference next summer in Vancouver.
PKP is the Public Knowledge Project, the umbrella organization under
which live various open source publishing tools such as OJS. Software
developers and system administrators will be one audience stream at
the conference, and they're definitely interested in proposals for
papers of a more "techie" flavour. More info below.
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Quick link to 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
Website:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009
SECOND INTERNATIONAL PKP SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING CONFERENCE
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second
international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an
overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around
the world. A selected set of conference papers was subsequently
published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday.
The conference will appeal not just to members of the PKP community,
but to anyone interested in trends and developments for scholarly
publishing and communication. There will be a wide range of topical
sessions on new reading and publishing technologies; open access
initiatives; alternative publishing and funding models; national and
international collaborative projects; new roles and partnerships for
libraries, scholarly publishers and others; and sustainability for
open access publishing and open source software. Prospective and
first time users of OJS and other PKP software will be able to learn
more about the systems and establish contacts with the PKP community.
Experienced implementers, developers, and system administrators will
have an opportunity to participate in technical sessions and exchange
information.
The conference will commence with an opening keynote session on the
evening of July 8 convened by John Willinsky, the founder of the
Public Knowledge Project. There will be several pre-conference
workshops on July 8, and the main conference program will present a
combination of concurrent and single track sessions during on July 9
and 10. The conference will conclude with three special symposia on
community and network building intended for each of the core PKP
constituents: journal editors and publishers; librarians; and
software developers.
The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University’s downtown
campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations,
restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations. Please mark the
July 8 – 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look
forward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference.
Session proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2009 and
conference registration opens October 15, 2008. For more information,
please visit the conference web site: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/
index.php/pkp2009
The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research
initiative at Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and the
University of British Columbia. It seeks to improve the scholarly
and public quality of academic research through the development of
innovative online environments. PKP has developed free, open source
software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and
current conferences. The PKP software suite is comprised of three
modules in production: Open Archives Harvester, Open Journal Systems,
and Open Conference Systems, and two in development: Lemon8-XML and
Open Monograph Press.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second
international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an
overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around
the world. A selected set of conference papers was subsequently
published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday.
The conference will consist of a mixture of plenary talks and
parallel conference streams intended for the following groups:
- journal editors and publishers
- researchers in scholarly publishing
- librarians and information specialists
- open source software developers and system administrators
Papers and presentation proposals that address one or more of the
following topics are especially encouraged:
- New reading and publishing technologies, e.g. integration of
Web 2.0 features;
- Open access initiatives;
- Alternative publishing and funding models;
- National and international collaborative projects;
- New roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly
publishers, and others;
- Sustainability for open access publishing and open source
software.
Parallel sessions will each be up to 1 hour in length. They may
consist of a workshop, a case study, a research report, a set of 3
presentations on a single theme, a panel discussion as well as other
options.
Proposals for papers or presentations should be submitted by January
15, 2009, using the submission guidelines and form available at
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009/
The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University’s downtown
campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations,
restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations. Please mark
the July 8 – 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look
forward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference.
The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research
initiative at Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and the
University of British Columbia. The partnership brings together
faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to
exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the
professional and public value of scholarly research. Its research
program is investigating the social, economic, and technical issues
entailed in the use of online infrastructure and knowledge management
strategies to improve both the scholarly quality and public
accessibility and coherence of this body of knowledge in a
sustainable and globally accessible form. It seeks to improve the
scholarly and public quality of academic research through the
development of innovative online environments. It continues to be
an active player in the open access movement, as it provides the
leading open source software for journal and conference management
and publishing. The research and publishing activities of the project
have been reviewed and cited in Inside Higher Ed, Nature, New England
Journal of Medicine, Science, The Scientist and others.
Gordon Coleman
Project Coordinator
BC Electronic Library Network
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Phone: 778-782-7002
Fax: 778-782-3023
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.eln.bc.ca
