Registration open for PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
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?s 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 illinsky, 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?s 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
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Kevin Stranack
PKP/reSearcher Support Librarian
Email: kstranac@sfu.ca
Web: http://software.lib.sfu.ca/
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Don't miss the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
July 11 - 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/
It was a great conference
I?ve been to a few conferences in my professional career (really, far more than I want to recall) but few stick out as engaging and thought provoking as the one I attended earlier this week. All too often conference sessions can just wash over one with brief - but only fleeting - notice. Not true at the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference.
Why do I think it was such a great conference though? Because the notes I found myself taking weren?t summaries of what the speakers were saying but rather an ongoing conversation with myself about how the information helped interpret things in my own organization, prompted ideas for projects, led me to identify new potential partners for projects, etc. This may have been helped along by knowing the conference proceedings will be published eventually (hint, hint for those of you not able to be there - worth watching for!) but somehow things came together in ways they don?t always. I do owe a small disclaimer here that I was on the planning committee but my role was small but, in the end, I think the speakers and attendees created the environment, not the planners.
Robert PhD, Social Project
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Mp3monster