The PKP Experience in Assisting Scholarly Societies to Transition to Open Access

Kevin StranackSimon Fraser University

Knowledge Exchange Open Access Working GroupTallinn, September 21, 2011

public knowledge project

r & d projectdr. john willinsky

simon fraser university

open journal systems

open sourceonline journal management

global community10,000 installations

technologicaleconomic

relationshipsknowledge sharing

technology

• Web site slide

• Submission slide

• Review slide

• Editing slide

• Publish slide

• Import content

• Import users

economics

increase efficiencies

new economic models

• advertising

• donations

• POD

• Author fees

• Pay for pdf

relationships

expand the conversation

• Doaj plugin, pubmed plugin

• rss

• Share plugin

• New formats irrodl

• Blogs, twitter, facebook, SoMe

knowledge sharing

sharing with the communitysharing between the

community

• Documentation, videos, pkpschool

• Support forum

• With sparc europe, have set up the first “official” CoP, the PKP Europe Network

• Pkpen forum slide

technologicaleconomic

relationshipsknowledge sharing

kevin stranackkstranac@sfu.ca