Increasing Access to Knowledge: The Contribution of Open Access Publishing

Speaker:          Prof. John Willinsky   
                  University of British Columbia 
                  Canada  

Title:            Increasing Access to Knowledge: 
                  The Contribution of Open Access Publishing 

Date:             Monday, 09 Feb 2004 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Seng Lecture Theatre) 
                  (near lift nos. 25/26)   


ABSTRACT: 

In response to a number of pressing intellectual, economic, social and
technical issues that currently face scholarly publishing, the Public
Knowledge Project has developed open source systems that will support an
alternative knowledge economy for scholarship. This presentation will
demonstrate the  potential of new management and publishing systems for
improving both the accessibility and scholarly quality of research journals
and conferences. The systems are designed for editors and conference
directors, with few technical skills, and intended to enable more research
to be made open access, as well as support the publishing activities and
research capacities of developing countries.

BIOGRAPHY: 

John Willinsky is the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology at
the University of British Columbia and author of If Only We Knew: Increasing
the Public Value of the Social Sciences (Routledge) and Technologies of
Knowing (Beacon), among other books. For a working preview of the publishing
software, as well as access to Willinsky's papers on these themes, see the
Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.ubc.ca).