Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

Posted on By Jürgen Günther

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 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.

Pro­po­sals that address one or more of the fol­lo­wing topics are espe­ci­al­ly encou­ra­ged:

  • New rea­ding and publi­shing tech­no­lo­gies, e.g., inte­gra­ti­on of Web 2.0 fea­tures;
  • Reports on natio­nal and regio­nal open access poli­ci­es and initia­ti­ves;
  • Alter­na­ti­ve publi­shing and fun­ding models;
  • Natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve pro­jects;
  • New roles and part­ner­ships for libra­ri­es, scho­lar­ly publishers, and others;
  • Sus­taina­bi­li­ty for open access publi­shing and open source soft­ware.

The con­fe­rence will con­sist of a mix­tu­re of ple­na­ry pre­sen­ta­ti­ons, panel dis­cus­sions, brief „light­ning talks,” pos­ters, work­shops, a hack­fest, an exhi­bi­tor hall, and par­al­lel con­fe­rence ses­si­ons in the fol­lo­wing streams:

  • Edi­tors, publishers, and libra­ri­ans
  • Rese­ar­chers and mem­bers of scholarly/scientific socie­ties
  • Soft­ware deve­lo­pers and sys­tem admi­nis­tra­tors
  • Community/User groups

Par­al­lel ses­si­ons will each be up to 20 minu­tes in length. Light­ning Talks and “Ask a Deve­lo­per” pre­sen­ta­ti­ons are limi­t­ed to 5 minu­tes each. Ses­si­ons may con­sist of a case stu­dy, a rese­arch report, a „big idea” in publi­shing, as well as other opti­ons.

Pro­po­sals (500 word maxi­mum) should be sub­mit­ted by March 15, 2011, using the sub­mis­si­on gui­de­lines and form available on our web site.

All pro­po­sals will be sub­ject to peer-review and you will be infor­med of a decis­i­on by June 1, 2011. Due to the strong inte­rest in this year’s con­fe­rence, only a limi­t­ed num­ber of ses­si­ons will be accept­ed.

We hope to see you in Ber­lin in 2011!

Your PKP Con­fe­rence Team

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