PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2013

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held in Latin America, a region of the world that publishes almost exclusively in Open Access. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for exchange on innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contributions of open source technologies. We look forward to hosting editors, publishers, librarians, researchers, developers, content aggregators, and PKP’s growing user community from around the world.

Previous International PKP Scholarly Publishing conferences have brought together a remarkable array of presentations and participants from around the world. We anticipate an equally valuable experience in 2013.

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011

The Public Knowledge Project, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, presented the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

This was the first time that the PKP Conference was held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we enjoyed meeting more members of the international scholarly publishing community. Given that the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched ten years earlier (in December 2001), the PKP conference invited explorations of the successes achieved, setbacks overcome, and lessons learned in our shared attempts to support alternative publishing solutions and to increase open access within scholarly publishing. The first and second PKP conferences brought together a remarkable array of presentations and participants from around the world, and this third event provided an equally valuable experience in 2011.

Conference Reflections

For more information about the conference sessions, please visit the Presentation page, which includes selected videos, papers, and presentation files from the conference.

• Sponsorship Opportunities
• Hackfest Call for Participation
• General Terms and Conditions
• Venue
• Conference Schedule
• Posters
• Technical Workshop
• OJS Introduction Workshop
• OMP Workshop
• OJS Workshop (German)
• PKP Team "Meet and Greet"
• PKP Sustainability Preview
• Conference Sponsors

International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2009

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Highlights include:

• An opening keynote address by PKP founder and principal investigator, Dr. John Willinsky
• Pre-conference Workshops on various PKP software applications and communities
• A post-conference Workshop on creating open access journals led by Dr. David Solomon and Dr. Caroline Sutton
• A series of sessions from the Open Humanities Press
• A wide range of sessions for editors, libraries, and developers, from speakers from around the world

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, OMP, Lemon8-XML, and OA Harvester) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale.

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007

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.