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From: Karen Meijer-Kline <kmeijerk at sfu.ca>
Date: 17 November 2014 20:42
Subject: [GOAL] Call for Proposals - PKP Conference 2015
To: kmeijerk at sfu.ca
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The *fifth PKP international scholarly publishing conference*, which takes
place *August 13-14 2015, in Vancouver, BC*, will be an opportunity for
participants to engage on the important concept of openness in all of its
manifestations. Open source, open science, open data, open access, open
education, and open learning are not only integral themes in the scholarly
communication landscape, but also in education, librarianship, economics,
politics, and more. Following on 2014’s Open Access Week theme “Generation
Open”, this conference will particularly focus on the next generation of
scholars and researchers. This next generation are not only digital
natives, but open digital natives; who are influenced by the broad
ideas of openness
in many ways. As SPARC noted when announcing the OA Week theme, students
and early career researchers are the future of the Academy, and the
ultimate success of the Open Access movement depends on them.

In collaboration with SFU’s Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing
and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab / Digital Humanities Summer
Institute at the University of Victoria, the conference will address a wide
range of topics such as open access publishing, global knowledge creation
and sharing, open educational resources, the digital humanities, current
and future scholars as publishers, and open source technologies. It will
provide opportunities to explore a new array of connections among
scholarship, technology, and community, all focussed around the broad theme
of openness.

The conference will consist of a mixture of plenary presentations, panel
discussions, brief "lightning talks," a development sprint, and parallel
conference sessions; following the general areas of scholarship,
technology, and community.

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


   -

   Roles for next generation scholars and researchers;
   -

   Community connections and partnerships;
   -

   Open education and open learning;
   -

   New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., innovative reader
   interfaces;
   -

   Sustainability for Open: finance and beyond;
   -

   From scholarly publishing to scholarly products, e.g. the next
   generation scholarly monograph;
   -

   New approaches to assessing research outcomes and impact;
   -

   The full research lifecycle and new linkages with scholarly publishing,
   e.g. research data.


Parallel sessions will each be up to 20 minutes in length. Lightning Talks
are limited to 5 minutes each (“5 slides in 5 minutes”). Panel presentation
length will be determined by the number of participants. Sessions may
consist of a case study, a research report, a "big idea”, as well as other
options. Please feel free to contact the organizing team to discuss a topic
for a paper, panel, or other session format.

Submissions

The conference organizing team invites proposals for individual papers,
presentations (without accompanying paper), as well as proposals for panel
submissions and lightning talks. For individual papers and presentations,
please submit an abstract of max 500 words and a presentation title, along
with a brief biographical statement, and your contact information. For
lightning talks, please limit the abstract to max 250 words.

For complete panels, please submit a panel abstract of max 750 words as
well as a list of all participants including brief biographical statements.
Please identify and provide contact information for the panel organizer.

Deadline for proposals: February 1st, 2015

Conference website: http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015
<http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015%C2%A0>

For questions, please email kmeijerk at sfu.ca

Best regards,
Karen

Karen Meijer-Kline, MA MLIS
Communications and Member Services Officer
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Simon Fraser University Library
Email: kmeijerk at sfu.ca
Skype: kmeijerkline
https://pkp.sfu.ca/


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