Freeing Knowledge

"The intellectual inquiry occurring each day at Stanford prompts the question of how research can best be accessed and put to use for the benefit of all. Enter the Public Knowledge Project. The project works on how to make precious new information easily available to anyone who wants it. Education professor and project director John Willinsky has been working on the project since 1998. He began with the premise that research should be made more widely available. Since then, the project has taken a more technological direction. It revolves around free, downloadable software that provides scholars with the means to launch new or existing journals and the option to make those journals free and publicly available. With this “open-source” option, the project aims to have many scholars join it in its mission to improve the quality of public research not only in the U.S., but also all over the world...."