Hi folks.

If you were at Access on the Saturday morning you heard Lynn  
Copeland's mention of the PKP Conference next summer in Vancouver.  
PKP is the Public Knowledge Project, the umbrella organization under  
which live various open source publishing tools such as OJS. Software  
developers and system administrators will be one audience stream at  
the conference, and they're definitely interested in proposals for  
papers of a more "techie" flavour. More info below.

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Quick link to 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference  
Website:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009

SECOND INTERNATIONAL PKP SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING CONFERENCE
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second  
international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in  
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an  
overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around  
the world.  A selected set of conference papers was subsequently  
published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday.

The conference will appeal not just to members of the PKP community,  
but to anyone interested in trends and developments for scholarly  
publishing and communication.   There will be a wide range of topical  
sessions on new reading and publishing technologies; open access  
initiatives; alternative publishing and funding models; national and  
international collaborative projects;  new roles and partnerships for  
libraries, scholarly publishers and others; and sustainability for  
open access publishing and open source software.   Prospective and  
first time users of OJS and other PKP software will be able to learn  
more about the systems and establish contacts with the PKP community.  
Experienced implementers, developers, and system administrators will  
have an opportunity to participate in technical sessions and exchange  
information.

The conference will commence with an opening keynote session on the  
evening of July 8 convened by John Willinsky, the founder of the  
Public Knowledge Project.   There will be several pre-conference  
workshops on July 8, and the main conference program will present a  
combination of concurrent and single track sessions during on July 9  
and 10.  The conference will conclude with three special symposia on  
community and network building intended for each of the core PKP  
constituents:  journal editors and publishers; librarians; and  
software developers.

The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University’s downtown  
campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations,  
restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations.  Please mark the  
July 8 – 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look  
forward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference.
Session proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2009 and  
conference registration opens October 15, 2008. For more information,  
please visit the conference web site: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/ 
index.php/pkp2009

The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research  
initiative at Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and the  
University of British Columbia.  It seeks to improve the scholarly  
and public quality of academic research through the development of  
innovative online environments. PKP has developed free, open source  
software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and  
current conferences. The PKP software suite is comprised of three  
modules in production: Open Archives Harvester, Open Journal Systems,  
and Open Conference Systems, and two in development: Lemon8-XML and  
Open Monograph Press.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second  
international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in  
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an  
overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around  
the world.  A selected set of conference papers was subsequently  
published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday.

The conference will consist of a mixture of plenary talks and  
parallel conference streams intended for the following groups:

-       journal editors and publishers
-       researchers in scholarly publishing
-       librarians and information specialists
-       open source software developers and system administrators

Papers and presentation proposals that address one or more of the  
following topics are especially encouraged:

-       New reading and publishing technologies, e.g. integration of  
Web 2.0 features;
-       Open access initiatives;
-       Alternative publishing and funding models;
-       National and international collaborative projects;
-       New roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly  
publishers, and others;
-       Sustainability for open access publishing and open source  
software.

Parallel sessions will each be up to 1 hour in length.  They may  
consist of a workshop, a case study, a research report, a set of 3  
presentations on a single theme, a panel discussion as well as other  
options.

Proposals for papers or presentations should be submitted by January  
15, 2009, using the submission guidelines and form available at  
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009/

The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University’s downtown  
campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations,  
restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations.   Please mark  
the July 8 – 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look  
forward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference.

The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research  
initiative at Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and the  
University of British Columbia.  The partnership brings together  
faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to  
exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the  
professional and public value of scholarly research. Its research  
program is investigating the social, economic, and technical issues  
entailed in the use of online infrastructure and knowledge management  
strategies to improve both the scholarly quality and public  
accessibility and coherence of this body of knowledge in a  
sustainable and globally accessible form. It seeks to improve the  
scholarly and public quality of academic research through the  
development of innovative online environments.   It continues to be  
an active player in the open access movement, as it provides the  
leading open source software for journal and conference management  
and publishing. The research and publishing activities of the project  
have been reviewed and cited in Inside Higher Ed, Nature, New England  
Journal of Medicine, Science, The Scientist and others.


Gordon Coleman
Project Coordinator
BC Electronic Library Network
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