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Libraries HomeExpert on Open Access to Discuss Future of Academic Publishing, Fri., Dec. 4
November 4, 2009
John Willinsky, a visionary leader and author in the area of digital scholarship and open access, will give a talk entitled “Open Access to Knowledge and the Intellectual Properties of Learning” on Friday, December 4, at 3 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room. A reception will follow the talk.
With faculty appointments at both the Stanford School of Education and the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Willinsky has been an innovator in the field of open access. As founder of the Public Knowledge Project, he developed the Open Journal Systems for serials publishing, and, more recently, the Open Monograph Press for book-length works. He also played the lead role in convincing the Stanford School of Education to adopt an open access deposit mandate for all of its faculty members.
Willinsky describes his research as focusing on “analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation.” He argues that the use of new publishing technologies and new economic models will improve access to scholarly work for the advancement of public knowledge.
Willinsky has written on such topics as Wikipedia and the effects of open access initiatives on public knowledge and academic scholarship. His most recent book on the subject, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, was published by MIT Press.
Sponsored by the UO Libraries, the Oregon Humanities Center, and the Oregon State University Libraries, the lecture is part of the Year of the Book series at the UO.
For more information, contact JQ Johnson, Scholarly Communications, 346-1746, jqj@uoregon.edu.