The in-person class on Tuesday, June 3rd will begin with guest speaker Michael Felczak - all are welcome, 5:30 p.m. Desmarais 111-61 - details:
Academic-Led Scholarly Publishing, Technical Representation, and the Public Knowledge Project
This
short talk will provide an introduction to the Public Knowledge Project
(PKP), a university-based research and development effort focused on
academic-led scholarly publishing. Through the development of freely
available online publishing platforms, including Open Journal Systems,
Open Monograph Press, and Open Conference Systems, the PKP provides
software and support services to academics and scholarly associations
seeking an alternative to existing commercial publishing models. I will
also outline the political significance of open source software with
reference to concrete examples drawn from Canadian academic journals
that publish using PKP software.
Michael Felczak is the online
editor at the Canadian Journal of Communication and a PhD candidate in
the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. His research
examines the production and consumption of new communication
technologies and he has recently published and presented work on the
history of network neutrality, communication rights and e-government,
and the practices of free/open source software.
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