Director

John Willinsky
John (Khosla Family Professor of Education, Stanford University) started PKP in 1998 at the University of British Columbia in an effort to create greater public and global access to research and scholarship through the use of new publishing technologies. He is the author of, among other books, Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994); Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998); Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000); and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).

 

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Associate Directors

Juan Pablo Alperin
Associate Director of Research
Vancouver, BC, Canada – Juan is an Assistant Professor in the Publishing Program at SFU. Follow Juan on Twitter at @juancommander and see his latest publications and presentations at http://alperin.ca.

Alec Smecher
Associate Director of Development
BC, Canada – Alec is the lead developer for all PKP software and the PKP Web Application Library. When not developing software, he conducts workshops, runs marathons, and plays the drums.

Amanda Stevens
Associate Director of Publishing Services
Halifax, NS, Canada – Amanda Stevens joined PKP in 2017 as a Publication Support Specialist and now manages PKP’s fee-based hosting and support service and community support services, such as documentation and the Forum. She has a Master of Library and Information Studies degree and has done a variety of non-traditional library work, including book indexing and alternative subject thesaurus development. Outside of work, she loves to DJ, make zines, swim, and garden.

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Operations Management Team

Michael Felczak
Head of Systems
Canada

 

Nate Wright
Head of Platform Experience
Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Nathalie Vallières
Communications Manager
Canada, USA

 

Lin Zhang
Budget Coordinator
Canada

 

 

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PKP Team

Vitaliy Bezsheiko
Software Developer
Kyiv, Ukraine

 

Bozana Bokan
Software Developer
Germany

 

 

Dimitris Efstathiou
Software Developer
Athens, Greece

 

Roger Gillis
Publication Support Specialist
Halifax, NS, Canada

 

Gian Jaskulski
Senior Systems Administrator

 

 

Josh Noronha
Systems Administrator

 

 

Erik Hanson
Software Developer
Canada

 

Mark Jordan
Associate Dean of Libraries, Digital Strategy (SFU Library)
Canada

 

Mariya Maistrovskaya
Publication Support Specialist
Toronto, ON, Canada

 

Patricia Mangahis
Publication Support Specialist
Canada

 

Michael Nason
Publication Support Specialist/Metadata and Crossref Liaison
Fredericton, NB, Canada

 

Jason Nugent
Senior System Administrator
Fredericton, NB, Canada

 

Andrea Pritt
Publication Support Specialist
Harrisburg, PA, United States

 

Janio Sarmento
System Administrator
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

 

Kate Shuttleworth
Publication Support Specialist
Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

Jonas Raoni Soares da Silva
Software Developer
Moscow, Russia

 

Emma Uhl
Publication Support Specialist
Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

Alejandra Casas Niño de Rivera 
Publication Support Specialist
Mexico

 

Jon Ball
Student Research Associate, Stanford University
California

 

Saurabh Khanna
Student Research Associate, Stanford University
California

 

Catherine Baron
Student Research Associate, Stanford University
California

 

Daniel R Pimentel
Student Research Associate, Stanford University
California

 

Miroslav Ivan Suzara
Student Research Associate, Stanford University
California

 

Famira Racy
Social Media Assistant, Communications
Alberta, Canada

 

 

 

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PKP Advisory Committee

• Allan Bell, Chair
  Associate University Librarian, Digital Programs and Services
  University of British Columbia
• Gwen Bird
  Dean of Libraries
  Simon Fraser University
• Talia Chung
  University Librarian and Vice-Provost (Knowledge Systems)
  University of Ottawa / Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)
• Aaron Brenner
  Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship & Creation
  University of Pittsburgh
• Sonya Betz
  Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services
  University of Alberta
• Geoffrey Harder
  Associate University Librarian
  University of Alberta
• Kaitlin Newson
  Digital Projects Librarian
  Scholars Portal
• Tanja Niemann
  Executive Director
  Érudit

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PKP Community Leaders

• Marc Bria
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  PKP Technical Committee Chair
• Clinton Graham
  University of Pittsburgh
  PKP Community Forum Leader
• Kaitlin Newson
  Scholars Portal
  PKP Members Committee Chair/PKP Documentation Interest Group (DIG) Coordinator
• Antti-Jussi Nygård
  The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
• Bronwen Sprout
  University of British Columbia
  PKP Preservation Network (PN) Coordinator
• Marco Tullney
  German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
• Dulip Withanage
  German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

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Past Associates

• Sonya Betz, University of Alberta, Past PKP Technical Committee Chair
• Bruno Beghelli, System Developer
• Lynn Copeland, University Librarian and Dean of Library Services, Simon Fraser University Library (Retired)
• Matt Crider, System Developer
• Charles Eckman, University Librarian and Dean of Library Services, Simon Fraser University Library (2010-2013)
• Samuel Smith Esseh, Researcher
• Florian Grandel, System Developer
• Kevin Jamieson, first OJS Lead Developer
• Chris MacDonald, System Developer
• James MacGregor, Associate Director of Strategic Projects and Services and Interim Managing Director
• Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer
• Brian Owen, PKP Managing Director
• MJ Suhonos, System Developer
• Michael Thessel, System Developer
• Israel Cefrin, System Administrator/UX Researcher for Accessibility
• Kevin Stranack, Membership Development & Community Education