Open Access to Research is Coming: What is to be Done?
Date and Time: October 22nd, noon – 1pm
Speaker: Professor John Willinsky, Stanford University School of Education
Location: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Library, Ground Floor
Each year, a greater proportion of the scholarly literature is being made freely available online (open access), posing new challenges, as well as new opportunities, for the future of learning. This presentation will use the Open Access policy mandates that faculty members have supported at Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Kansas as an example of what is being done and why it matters.
John Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford School of Education where he teaches courses on knowledge systems, access to knowledge and scholarly communication. He directs the Public Knowledge Project which focuses on extending access to knowledge through online sources such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press (OMP). Dr. Willinsky’s research centers on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED and Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship — the latter of which has won the 2006 Blackwell Scholarship Award and the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.