Innovator Developed Infrastructure that Enabled Open Access Journals to Flourish | SPARC
peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-01-27
Summary:
From SPARC: "John Willinsky sees the free exchange of information as a matter of social justice. When he recognized that the high cost of journals was keeping the public from having access to important research, Willinsky did more than just talk about the problem. He came up with a solution that helped to actively transform the scholarly communication world. In the late 1990s, Willinsky founded the Public Knowledge Project and developed Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free, open source platform that allows journals to be more easily and affordably published online. The results speak for themselves - today, more than 1.5 million articles are published in journals using the OJS platform. In 2012 alone, over 5,000 journals published at least 10 articles using the software Willinsky and his team pioneered. Because Willinsky is both a visionary and pragmatist who brings effective business teams together, SPARC honors Willinsky with its January 2014 Innovator Award...."