Willinsky honored for developing Open Access platform | The Dish

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-02-16

Summary:

"JOHN WILLINSKY had just finished collaborating with a local newspaper on a big project when he made a discovery that would shape his academic career: He was surprised to find out that he couldn’t re-publish his own research online with the package of articles on education. 'That was a turning point,' Willinsky, a professor in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, said of that moment. 'I realized something was wrong with this picture.' Willinsky saw how the legal barriers against sharing published research findings and the high cost of academic journals were keeping the public from having access to important work. That epiphany led Willinsky to look into the idea of sharing scholarly research for free. There was no formal Open Access movement at the time (since then, one has blossomed), so he began exploring options to promote his 'free to read' idea. 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. Since then, more than 1.5 million articles have been published in journals using the OJS platform. For this work, SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has given Willinsky its semi-annual Innovator Award ..."

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http://news.stanford.edu/thedish/?p=31323

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oa.new oa.awards oa.sparc oa.pkp oa.ojs oa.announcements

Date tagged:

02/16/2014, 10:29

Date published:

02/16/2014, 05:29