Call for Papers

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP)[1] 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.

Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially encouraged:

  • Reports on institutional, national, and regional open access policies, initiatives, and projects;
  • Sustainability and alternative models for open access publishing;
  • Quality, impact, and reach of Open Access publications;
  • Open Access and higher education;
  • Interoperability and  information systems;
  • New reading and publishing technologies.

The conference will consist of a mixture of plenary presentations, parallel conference sessions, brief "lightning talks," posters, workshops, and an exhibitor’s hall. Presentations are welcome in both English and Spanish, with simultaneous translation available for some of the plenaries. 

Invited speakers will deliver plenary sessions around conference themes. Parallel sessions last up to two hours and will be a mixture of regular 15-minute presentations and 5-minute “Lightning Talks”. Sessions may consist of a case study, a research report, a "big idea" in publishing, outlining of a specific problem, as well as other options.

Proposals (500 word maximum) should be submitted by May 1, 2013, using the submission guidelines and form available on our web site. All proposals will be subject to peer-review and decision will be announced no later than May 15, 2013.

Accepted papers and presentations will be published on the conference website.

 

 


[1] The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.

 

Author Guidelines

Proposals for papers and presentations must be no more than 500 words. Panel presentatations can be up to 750 words if more than 3 panelists. Lighting talks should be no more than 250 words.
Please include any references, fully formatted in MLA form, below the proposal abstract.  
Be sure to specify on the first step of the submission process which of the following type of presentation is being proposed. 
  1. Papers (15 minutes)
    Standard conference papers, to be presented at the conference, with the paper posted to the PKP Conference web site.
  2. Presentations (15 minutes)
    Standard conference presentation, without an accompanying paper. The presentation file (e.g., Powerpoint) will be posted to the Conference web site.
  3. Panels (20 - 50 minutes, depending upon number of panelists)
    Standard conference panel session, with the time length determined by the number of panelists. All presentation files will be posted to the Conference web site.
  4. Lightning Talks (5 minutes)
    Very brief presentations: 5 slides in 5 minutes.The presentation file (e.g., Powerpoint) will be posted to the Conference web site. Topics could include a new feature development, a case study of a current project (local, regional, national, international) using one or more of the PKP software applications, or any short but big idea.

Submissions for this conference were closed on 2013-05-06.



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