PKP Director
John Willinsky
john.willinsky@stanford.edu
John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education, Stanford University and Professor (Part-Time) Publishing Studies, SFU and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, SFU Library. John 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).
PKP Managing Director
Brian Owen
gwbowen@sfu.ca
Brian Owen is the Associate University Librarian for Processing and Systems at SFU Library. He is an Associate with SFU’s Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, SFU’s Master of Publishing Program, and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). In 2007, Brian received the Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).
PKP Technical Architect
Alec Smecher
alec@smecher.bc.ca
Alec is the technical architect for the Public Knowledge Project, and lead developer of Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), Open Harvester Systems (OHS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and the PKP Web Application Library (WAL). When not actively developing PKP software, he runs workshops around the world, runs marathons internationally, and plays drums in a band.
PKP Team
Juan Pablo Alperin
Assistant Professor of Publishing, SFU; Research Associate, PKP
juan@alperin.ca
Juan started working with the Public Knowledge Project from his native Argentina in 2007, and has continued to be involved as systems developer, project manager, researcher, and doctoral student from Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and the US. He leads several of PKP’s R&D and Scholarly Inquiry initiatives around scholarly publishing in Latin America, is in charge of PKP’s Article Level Metrics service, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Publishing Program at SFU.
Bozana Bokan
System Developer
bozana.bokan@posteo.net
Božana is a software developer with PKP. She’s been involved with OJS since 2.0 and, as a part of her work at the Freie Universität Berlin, she has been involved with the PKP community for a long time before formally joining the PKP team in November 2015. Besides OJS and PKP she likes helping people, the outdoors, yoga and dancing.
Kurt Bolko
System Administrator
kab16@sfu.ca
Kurt is a system administrator with the SFU Library, and works closely with the PKP Publishing Services team.
Jordan Cloutier
System Administrator
jordan.cloutier@gmail.com
Jordan is a system administrator with PKP, and also works closely with the PKP Publishing Services team.
Dimitris Efstathiou
System Developer
defstat@gmail.com
For the last 3 years, Dimitris develops and supports scholarly electronic publication services for the National Documentation Centre, corresponding to the growing publishing needs of the Hellenic academic community. OJS and OMP being the backbone of the service’s infrastructure, he has been actively involved with the PKP community, and can’t wait to be part of the further expansion of PKP’s products.
Samuel Smith Esseh, Ph.D.
Head, Publishing Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology, Ghana.
skesseh@gmail.com
Smith Esseh has delivered publishing workshops across Africa, and conducted research on journal publishing on the continent. He is currently heading the Publishing Studies Department at KNUST and developing online course materials for the PKP School on the editing of scholarly journals.
Michael Felczak
System Developer, PKP Publishing Services
michael.pkp@gmail.com
Michael has been engaged with online scholarly publishing since 2005 in various capacities as a developer, online editor, and researcher. In addition to helping out with PKP’s publishing services and development, Michael has also taught and published on the societal benefits of open source publishing software, network neutrality, and communication rights in a digital world. Michael holds a PhD and MA in Communication from Simon Fraser University and a BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Alex Garnett
System Developer
axfelix@gmail.com
Alex is a Digital Preservation and Data Curation specialist at SFU. His work with PKP includes document parsing and data archiving research projects, as well as consulting as an unofficial travel agent.
Roger Gillis
PKP Publishing Services Associate
roger.gillis@gmail.com
Based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Roger Gillis provides client support, training, and other forms of support for PKP and PKP publishing services. He is expertise spans a wide variety of areas including: Archives, reference and instruction, information literacy, and library-based publishing initiatives. Roger is a strong believer to pragmatic approaches to open access and providing solutions for researchers to make their research more accessible.
Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems, Simon Fraser University Library
mjordan@sfu.ca
Mark is Head of Library Systems at SFU. His interests include repository platforms, content management frameworks, and metadata aggregation and reuse. Mark is also the author of Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Chandos, 2006).
James MacGregor
PKP Publishing Services Coordinator
jmacgreg@gmail.com
Formerly of the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick, James is Public Knowledge Project’s Publishing Services Coordinator, helping to organize the Project’s various hosting and consultation initiatives. He is based in Vancouver or Nova Scotia, depending.
Kassim Machioudi
System Developer
kassim@machioudi.com
Kassim has over 10 years of experience in web and software development. He’s passionate about Web, open source, information retrieval and data science. Before joining PKP, he worked for Université de Moncton, University of New-Brunswick and Polytechnique Montreal.
Michael Nason
PKP Publishing Services Associate; Coordinator, PKP Documentation Interest Group
michael.nason@gmail.com
Mike Nason is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of New Brunswick, as well as a member of the PKP Publishing Services team and coordinator of the PKP Documentation Interest Group. His work at UNB is chiefly focused on content recruitment for – and the population of – their new Institutional Repository as well as other day-to-day initiatives like open access literacy, speaking with faculty about author’s rights and sharing research, helping with UNB’s Journals operation, and generally avoiding emails. Whatever time is left, Mike spends on bicycles, playing in bands, and answering trouble tickets.
Angela Raasch
Manager of Finance
araasch@sfu.ca
Angela has worked as the Manager of Administrative Services for the SFU Library since 2003 and has assisted the Public Knowledge Project Team since 2004. In September 2014, she officially joined the Public Knowledge Project Team as the Manager of Finance and Budget Coordinator for SFU Library.
Kevin Stranack
Community Engagement & Learning Co-ordinator
kstranac@sfu.ca
Kevin has been a member of the PKP Team since 2005. He received his Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2002 and his Master of Adult Education from the University of Regina in 2013.
Nate Wright
Front-End Developer
Nate Wright is a software developer with PKP working to make it’s publishing suite more user-friendly without destroying everything in the process. He has a background in International Relations and worked briefly as a journalist in the Middle East before settling in Edinburgh, where he ponders existential questions like “will my dog tear the house apart if I don’t take him for a walk today?”
PKP Advisory Committee
- Allan Bell
Associate University Librarian, Digital Programs and Services
University of British Columbia - Gwen Bird
Dean of Libraries
Simon Fraser University - Tim Deliyannides, Chair
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head, Information Technology
University of Pittsburgh - Geoff Harder
Associate University Librarian
University of Alberta - Joy Kirchner
University Librarian
York University
PKP Community Leaders
- Sonya Betz
University of Alberta
Usability Coordinator - Clinton Graham
University of Pittsburgh
Community Forum Leader - Jeanette Hatherill
University of Ottawa
PKP Technical Committee Chair - Michael Nason
University of New Brunswick
PKP Documentation Interest Group Coordinator - Bronwen Sprout
University of British Columbia
LOCKSS Coordinator - Marco Tullney
Translation Coordinator
PKP Research Associates
- Silvio Carvalho Neto, Centro Universitário de Franca, Brazil
- Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
PKP Student Associates
- Janna Avon, University of British Columbia
- Khaled Diab, Simon Fraser University
- Sebastian Galvez, Stanford University
- Sazzad Hussain, St. Francis Xavier University
- Kamran Naim, Stanford University
- Fariha Naz, Simon Fraser University
- Joseph Nicolls, Stanford University
- Andrea Pritt, University of Pittsburgh
- Matthew Rusk, Stanford University
Past Associates
- Bruno Beghelli, Systems 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)
- Florian Grandel, System Developer
- Kevin Jamieson, first OJS Lead Developer
- Chris MacDonald, System Developer
- Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer
- Jason Nugent, Systems Developer
- MJ Suhonos, System Developer
- Michael Thessel, System Developer