Registration is now open for the First International PKP Scholarly
Publishing Conference, July 11 - 13, 2007.
Please Note: Registration is limited to 200 people and is filling up
fast! If you are interested in attending the conference, please
register and submit your payment as soon as possible to secure a place.
The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the
organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to
share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a
focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies
(such as, but not restricted to, PKP^Òs OJS, OCS, and OA Harvester)
can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global
and public scale.
Major keynote and plenary speakers have now been confirmed. John
Willinsky, the founder of PKP and the creator of OJS software will
provide the opening keynote address. Raym Crow from SPARC will speak
on publishing cooperatives and the various forms they might take for
nonprofit publishers, including societies, university presses, and
universities themselves. We are also pleased to welcome Anurag
Acharya, Google Scholar^Òs founding engineer. Finally, Michael Geist
will close the conference with his thoughts on the changes and
challenges that lie ahead in the fields of communications, knowledge
creation, and intellectual property.
For more information and online registration:
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/index.php
Heather G. Morrison
Project Coordinator
BC Electronic Library Network
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Phone: 604-268-7001
Fax: 604-291-3023
Email: heatherm_at_eln.bc.ca
Web:
http://www.eln.bc.ca
Don't miss the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
July 11 - 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/
Received on Fri Mar 23 2007 - 20:45:37 GMT