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PKP TimelinePKP Timeline
1998: 1998: Founded by John Willinsky in the Faculty of Founded by John Willinsky in the Faculty of Education at UBC. Dedicated to improving the scholarly Education at UBC. Dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research.and public quality of research.
2001: 2001: First PKP software released: Open Journal First PKP software released: Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems and PKP Harvester Systems, Open Conference Systems and PKP Harvester under the GNU GPL open source license.under the GNU GPL open source license.
2002: 2002: OJS was added to the Timeline for the Open OJS was added to the Timeline for the Open Access Movement as a Landmark Event. Access Movement as a Landmark Event.
2005: 2005: Partnership formed with the Faculty of Education Partnership formed with the Faculty of Education at UBC, the SFU Library, and the Canadian Centre for at UBC, the SFU Library, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at SFU.Studies in Publishing at SFU.
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PKP TimelinePKP Timeline
2006: 2006: PKP was the sole Canadian winner ($50,000 PKP was the sole Canadian winner ($50,000 USD) and the one prize given for scholarly USD) and the one prize given for scholarly
communication software in the first annual Mellon communication software in the first annual Mellon
Awards for Technology CollaborationAwards for Technology Collaboration
2006: 2006: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition (SPARC) announced Leading Edge partnership Coalition (SPARC) announced Leading Edge partnership
with PKPwith PKP
2007: 2007: First International PKP Scholarly Publishing First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, July 11 Conference, July 11 -- 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007: 2007: 4 of the 5 lead partners in Synergies project 4 of the 5 lead partners in Synergies project
propose to use PKP software as primary platformpropose to use PKP software as primary platform
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Open Journal Systems (OJS)Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Software to manage and publish Software to manage and publish
scholarly journals onlinescholarly journals online
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Open Conference Systems Open Conference Systems
(OCS)(OCS)
Software to create a complete Web Software to create a complete Web
presence for a scholarly presence for a scholarly
conferenceconference
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Open Archives HarvesterOpen Archives Harvester
Software to create centralized Software to create centralized
search services on metadata from search services on metadata from
Open Archives InitiativeOpen Archives Initiative--compliant compliant
databasesdatabases
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Lemon8Lemon8--XML (L8X)XML (L8X)
Software to convert from word Software to convert from word
processor documents (e.g. MS processor documents (e.g. MS
Word) to XML and PDFWord) to XML and PDF
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TRENDS
NOT just about collections
NOT about traditional publishing
Hosting, technical support, infrastructure
Advice and advocacy
Drivers
- increasing serials costs, decreasing collections budgets
- open access
- open source
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Research Library Publishing Services
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Report, March 2008
Survey with 80 respondents
44% offering publishing services
21% actively planning services
Primarily journals, 7 – 8 per library
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Software Supporting Library Publishing Services
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OJS Dspace Local BePress Dpubs Other
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SYNERGIESSYNERGIES
Will create a national network for the production, Will create a national network for the production, storage, and access to digitized knowledge produced in storage, and access to digitized knowledge produced in
Canada, including peerCanada, including peer--reviewed journal articles, reviewed journal articles,
datasets, theses, conference proceedings, scholarly datasets, theses, conference proceedings, scholarly
books, and other unpublished materialbooks, and other unpublished material
Focus on humanities and social sciencesFocus on humanities and social sciences
Awarded a $12 million CFI grant in 2007Awarded a $12 million CFI grant in 2007
A collaborative initiative of five Canadian universities; A collaborative initiative of five Canadian universities;
Simon Fraser University, University of New Brunswick, Simon Fraser University, University of New Brunswick,
UniversitUniversitéé de Montrde Montrééal (with the Consortium Erudit), al (with the Consortium Erudit),
University of Toronto, and University of CalgaryUniversity of Toronto, and University of Calgary
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CONTACTS & URLSCONTACTS & URLS
PKP: PKP: http://pkp.sfu.ca/http://pkp.sfu.ca/
Tony & the Hegemones: Tony & the Hegemones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbkk4KqrJXhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbkk4KqrJX
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[email protected]@sfu.ca
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