Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age
3rd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference at Freie Universität Berlin, September 26-28, 2011
№ 290/2011 from Sep 16, 2011
The Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at Freie Universität Berlin in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Simon Fraser University Library is organizing an international conference on scholarly publishing projects in the age of the Internet. The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26th – 28th, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. It is the first time that the event is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada. The conference will be dealing with explorations of the utilization of open source publishing software, adoption of alternate publishing models, and the advancement of the open access movement.
Media representatives are cordially invited to attend.
Open access is a means of taking advantage of the opportunities provided by the Internet to make peer-reviewed scientific material and scholarly literature freely available to all users. Global accessibility allows scientists and scholars to retrieve recent data in a convenient way and use it in further research. Thus open access manages to accelerate the dissemination of scientific and scholarly knowledge and information.
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) 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. Located at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Stanford University, PKP has developed free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences. Software such as Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, and Open Monograph Press increases access to knowledge, improves management, and reduces publishing costs. Over 8,000 online journals worldwide are currently using the OJS software. The Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at Freie Universität Berlin supports associated and external scientists and scholars as well as institutions in publishing electronic journals. Since October 2010 CeDiS has been contributing to the improvement of OJS related to scholarly publishing conditions in German-speaking countries within the framework of a project funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany’s central, self-governing research funding organization.
Time, Location
- Monday, September 26 – Wednesday, September 28, 2011
- Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, subway station Thielplatz or Dahlem-Dorf (U3)
Conference Schedule
For more information, see the conference website:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/schedule
To register (complimentary) as a member of the press, please contact:
Katrin Plank-Sabha, Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), Tel.: +49 (0)30 / 838-53705, Email: presse@cedis.fu-berlin.de
Further Information
Internet
Conference Website: www.pkp2011.de
Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS): www.cedis.fu-berlin.de