Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011) will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the growing, international PKP user community. Given that the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in December 2001, will be celebrating its first decade, the conference invites explorations of the lessons learned, successes achieved, and setbacks overcome in our shared attempts to increase and open access within scholarly publishing. The first and second PKP conferences brought together a remarkable array of presentations and participants from around the world, and we anticipate an equally valuable experience in 2011.

Confirmed speakers include Anurag Acharya (Google Scholar), Eelco Ferwerda (Amsterdam University Press), Gustavo E. Fischman (Arizona State University), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Foundations), Sigi Jottkandt (Open Humanities Press), Ray Siemens (University of Victoria), Astrid van Wesenbeeck (SPARC Europe) und John Willinsky (Stanford University and PKP.

More information: http://www.pkp2011.de

The theme for the conference is "Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World". The program for the conference is now available, including lists of sessions and plenary speakers:

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/schedule

In addition, the conference will again host a "hackfest", where groups of software developers, managers, and users come together to plan, design, and develop a new feature for OJS, OCS, or OHS over the two days of the conference. More information is available on the web site:

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/hackfest

This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the growing, international PKP user community. Please register at:

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/schedConf/registration