OJS in a Morning
Date: July 8, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: Kevin Stranack, James MacGregor
Fee: $75.00
This popular workshop returns and will provide a complete "hands on" tour of the OJS software for new users, including the editorial process, configuration options, and customization tips. Be sure to register early, it was oversubscribed at the 2007 conference.
L8X in a Morning
Date: July 8, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: MJ Suhonos, Anita Palepu, Juan Pablo Alperin
Fee: $75.00
This workshop will give an interactive overview of PKP's Lemon8-XML (L8X) software, focusing on both its technical and editorial benefits. The schedule for the afternoon includes:
- an introduction to L8X, its rationale and editorial purpose
- a sample walk-through of publishing a paper using OJS and L8X, from submission to publication
- a technical design overview and brief technical demonstration
- an "open forum" discussion / question period
PKP Software Plug-in Workshop
Date: July 8, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: Alec Smecher, Matt Crider, Michael Felczak
Fee: $75.00
This workshop is intended for potential "coders" interested in contributing to PKP software development. If possible, all participants should bring a laptop with a pre-installed instance of the OJS software. We would also like to generate some discussion and suggestions for "plug-ins" in advance of the session. A special topic thread will be established on the PKP Support Forum to facilitate this. Please take the time to check this out before the conference. It is hoped this session will quickly develop into a hackfest, with potential developers identifying and commencing work on plug-ins.
Walking the Talking with the CLA Open Access Interest Group
Date: July 8, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: Lynn Copeland, Devon Greyson, Joy Kirchner, Heather Morrison, Leah Vanderjagt, Andrew Waller
Fee: $75.00
CLA members and non-members alike are welcome to attend this workshop! The newly formed CLA Interest Group for Open Access will moderate a presentation and discussion on Walking the Talking: Making OA Happen. Participants will learn about open access implementation, action and advocacy efforts underway, learn more about open access and/or develop confidence in their abilities to act as catalysts for open access, and develop a network of colleagues with whom to share ideas and issues in your own open access initiatives. A meeting agenda is available here.
Networkshop - Editors/Publishers
Date: July 8, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: John Willinsky, Rowly Lorimer
Fee: $75.00
This session is designed for publishers and editors of scholarly journals and will address many topical issues including:
- Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom;
- New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices;
- Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access
- challenges and benefits;
- Improving the features and design of publishing software
This "Networkshop" will be introduced by John Willinsky, the founder and director of PKP, and will include brief overviews by the core PKP team of the entire PKP software suite: OJS, OCS, OAI Metadata Harvester, L8X, and OMP. Special attention will be paid to PKP's newest software modules - L8X and OMP - and the modularization of the PKP platform.
Networkshop - Software Developers/Technical Experts
Date: July 8, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: PKP Team Developers
Fee: $75.00
This session is targeted for developers, systems administrators and technical staff who are responsible for installing and maintaining OJS and other PKP software systems. It will cover the following topics:
- Understanding and working with PKP software and its "plug-in" architecture, including a practical overview of the daily operational requirements
- Sharing tips and techniques to optimize your local system, improve security, and manage software upgrades;
- Building a PKP developers' community including software contributions and collaborative projects;
This "Networkshop" will be introduced by John Willinsky, the founder and director of PKP, and will include brief overviews by the core PKP team of the entire PKP software suite: OJS, OCS, OAI Metadata Harvester, L8X, and OMP. Special attention will be paid to PKP's newest software modules - L8X and OMP - and the modularization of the PKP platform.
Networkshop - Librarians/Information Specialists
Date: July 8, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: Brian Owen, Mark Jordan, Kevin Stranack
Fee: $75.00
This session is intended for librarians and other information specialists who may be considering a more proactive role in directly supporting scholarly journals and the associated publishing platforms. It will address the following practical concerns and topical issues:
- The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g. the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies;
- Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services;
- Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, .e.g "best practices" or case studies.
This "Networkshop" will be introduced by John Willinsky, the founder and director of PKP, and will include brief overviews by the core PKP team of the entire PKP software suite: OJS, OCS, OAI Metadata Harvester, L8X, and OMP. Special attention will be paid to PKP's newest software modules - L8X and OMP - and the modularization of the PKP platform.
PKP Hackfest
Date: July 10, 3:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Facilitators: Bozana Bokan, James MacGregor
Fee: $0.00
Join us on Friday afternoon for a hands-on developer's hackfest centered around the PKP suite of programs! This hackfest will be an informal developers' session where members of the community will be able to brainstorm ideas, collaborate on common issues and work towards developing new features for OJS, OCS, Lemon8-XML and the Harvester. The event will start off with 15 minutes or so of brainstorming and whiteboarding, after which participants will break off into teams and tackle the most popular issues as they see fit. While we encourage web developers in particular to participate, this event is open to non-developers as well. PKP team members will be on hand to help out and participate themselves.
We are happy to take hackfest ideas beforehand. Please submit your idea to James MacGregor: jmacgreg@gmail.com. Computers will not be provided, so if possible, bring your laptop. Wireless access will be provided, as will the PKP software on USB key and CD. The hackfest will go from 3:00-6:30, and will likely segue nicely into dinner for those interested.
Workshop on Creating Open Access Journals
Date: July 11, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Presenters: David Solomon, Caroline Sutton
Fee: $275.00
This full day workshop is for all scholar/researchers interested in founding new open access journals in their field of study. The target group would include small societies, special interest groups, university departments and other groups of researcher/scholars who are interested in creating a new open access scholarly journal or enhancing the quality of an existing journal. The list of topics include:
- Determining the scope, name, editorial board and governance structure, review process format/style and layout for the journal
- Developing policies, procedures, and instructions for authors
- Options for web hosting, journal management, backup, and web development
- Estimating the resource requirements for operating the journal and developing a business plan and financing options to address those requirements
- Considerations in developing partnerships with academic libraries, university presses and/or working with professional publishers and other consultants/partners
- Indexing, archiving and dissemination issues in developing a new journal or enhancing access to an existing journal
- Preparing for launching the journal, including obtaining initial content, developing a reviewer pool, marketing and publicizing the journal
- Operating, sustaining and maintaining an OA journal over the long-term
The workshop will consist of short didactic sessions, small group discussions and working individually under the direction of the faculty conceptualizing and designing a journal. Participants will be provided with a series of forms, checklists and other written decision aides to use in working though the process of designing their journal and planning its implementation.
David Solomon, PhD is a Professor of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Office of Medical Education Research and Development at Michigan State University. Trained as an educational psychologist he has over 20 years of experience in curriculum development, instructional design and evaluation in medical education. Dr. Solomon is the founding editor of Medical Education Online, an OA journal that has been in operation since April 1996. He has published widely on various topics in open access publishing and authored "Developing Open Access Journals: A practical guide", published by Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited that covers much of the material that will be contained in the workshop.
Caroline Sutton, PhD is one of the founding partners of Co-Action Publishing and innovative open access publishing firm. Dr. Sutton worked for several years as the managing editor for a major international publishing house managing approximately 30 journals in the HSS and STM areas before forming Co-Action Publishing with several partners. Dr. Sutton is currently working on a project funded by the Swedish Royal Library to develop a best practices guide to open access journal publication.