This evening, John Willinsky opened the Public Knowledge Project conference at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in downtown Vancouver. Professor Willinsky’s keynote address, titled “Free? What’s So Special About Learning? The Intellectual Property Argument”, outlined a new way of thinking about the debate over open-access in scholarly publishing. […]
Knowledge Mobilization
This week, I will be attending the Public Knowledge Project Conference at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus in Vancouver as part of my work for the Notes on Knowledge Mobilization project. The conference begins tomorrow with a keynote address by Professor John Willinsky, director of the Public Knowledge Project and author […]
The Open Humanities Press, an international open-access publishing collective, has been publishing and supporting online peer-reviewed scholarly journals on contemporary critical thought since at least 2006. OHP is committed to providing the same rigorous peer-review process and high-quality scholarship of traditional subscription-based or “gated” journals. As scholarly publishing changes with […]
Novelist, blogger, and technology activist, Cory Doctorow, posted a video of some of his thoughts on the importance of an open-access approach to scholarship and education. He recorded this video for the European Union’s International Symposium on Helping Educational Leaders Use New Tools. Doctorow lays out some of his main […]
The Public Knowledge Project, a research and development initiative that promotes better scholarly research and publication through online publishing and the creation of knowledge-sharing environments, will be holding a conference in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 8-10 at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus at the Harbour Centre. For anyone interested […]
I have recently started thinking about these three things: copyright, scholarly publishing, and the open-access movement. I am at the beginning of a new project dealing with these matters in the field of Canadian history. Since I am just starting out, I have a lot of reading to do, so […]