Peter Suber has linked to a new presentation from UNC on Creating an Open Access Journal using OJS. It is well worth taking the time to review, especially if you are planning to start a new OA journal.

As part of the Open Access Week events at the SFU Library, you are invited to participate in the following presentation/webcast:

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: A Critical Theory of Open in the Digital Era: Sous les pavés, la plage

Social Sciences and Humanities Research as a Public Good: Identifying Research Prospects for Advancing Research Among Academic and Non-Academic Discourse Communities

May 27, 2010 - Concordia University, Montreal

This SSHRC-funded workshop organized by John Willinsky, Johanne Provençal and Rowland Lorimer will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss possibilities, partnerships and projects to extend the reach of social sciences and humanities research as a public good.

The Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy presents:

“The Right to Information Access”
October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium

UPDATE: This event will be available via a live web stream and remain freely accessible after October 30.

Web stream link for Windows Media Player Users

On the occasion of this university awarding an honorary Doctor of Laws being to John Willinsky at Fall Convocation, the Simon Fraser University Library is pleased to host a special presentation by this innovator in scholarly communication (see attached).

Thursday, October 8, 2009
10am - 11am

Thesis Defence Room
Room 2020, 2nd floor
W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC

Free drop-in admission

We have just started to collect original, staff-produced PowerPoint slides and course material on the PKP web page, and we're happy for anyone to use this material as part of their own presentations or courses. You can find this material http://pkp.sfu.ca/presentations; we'll be adding more as time goes on.

Arlene Mathison of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies presents "Libraries and Publishing: Using Open Journal Systems" at the November 2008 Transportation Librarians Roundtable.

You can also visit their journal: Journal of Transport and Land Use.

The presentations from the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories' Open Access Publishing conference are now available.

Be sure to listen to PKP developer MJ Suhonos' presentation. John's talk is not yet linked from this page.

Juan Pablo Alperin and Gustavo Fischman, from our PKP Latin American team, will be presenting in Toluca, Mexico on April 14-16, 2008 at the 5th Anniversary of Redalyc.

If you haven't seen the PKP Spanish language resource page, PKP Recursos en Español, created to assist OJS users in Latin America, stop by and take a look.

If you'd like to put together a similar resource page for your language community, let me know.