The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for
the upcoming PKP 2015 Scholarly Publishing conference:
* John Maxwell , Director of the Canadian Institute for Studies in
Publishing at SFU, and Associate Professor in the Masters of Publishing program
at SFU.
* Miriam Posner , Digital Humanities program coordinator and member of the
core DH faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.
* Ray Siemens , Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and
Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of
Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science.
* John Willinsky , PKP Director, Khosla Family Professor of Education and
Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford
University, Professor in Publishing Studies at SFU, and Distinguished Scholar
in Residence at the SFU Library.
For more information, please visit the ‘Invited Speakers’ page on the
conference website: http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/pages/view/speakers
Call for Participation
The conference will address a wide range of issues such as open access
publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources,
the digital humanities, current and future scholars as publishers, and open
source technologies. It will provide opportunities to explore a new array of
connections among scholarship, technology, and community, all focused around
the broad theme of openness.
The program will consist of a mixture of invited plenary presentations, a “next
generation scholars” panel discussion, brief “lightning talks,” a 2-day
development sprint, and workshops. A preliminary schedule, including the
updated registration fees, can be found on the conference website:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/pages/view/program
This year, the conference organizing team has chosen a more dynamic, modern
format for the PKP conference, with more opportunities to participate and learn
from each other. This format will be more interactive and allow all
participants to engage with each other on topics of mutual interest. Therefore,
instead of more traditional full presentations, we invite proposals for
lightning talks and development sprint participation only. Lightning Talks are
limited to 5 minutes each (“5 slides in 5 minutes”). Lightning talks can be
based on a full paper, in which case you will have the opportunity to have that
paper made available on the conference website; so that other participants can
read it before or after the conference.
Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially
encouraged:
* Roles for next generation scholars, researchers, and librarians;
* Community connections and partnerships among scholarly journals, the
digital humanities, and libraries;
* Open education and open learning;
* New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., innovative reader
interfaces;
* Sustainability for Open: finance and beyond;
* From scholarly publishing to scholarly products, e.g. the next generation
scholarly monograph;
* New approaches to assessing research outcomes and impact;
* The full research lifecycle and new linkages with scholarly publishing,
e.g. research data.
To start your submission, please visit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/schedConf/cfp
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015
Karen Meijer-Kline, MA MLIS
Communications and Member Services Officer
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Simon Fraser University Library
Email: [email protected]
Skype: kmeijerkline
pkp.sfu.ca
