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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Karen Meijer-Kline</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmeijerk@sfu.ca">kmeijerk@sfu.ca</a>></span><br>Date: 17 November 2014 20:42<br>Subject: [GOAL] Call for Proposals - PKP Conference 2015<br>To: <a href="mailto:kmeijerk@sfu.ca">kmeijerk@sfu.ca</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>, <a href="mailto:scholcomm@ala.org">scholcomm@ala.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ojs-users@jiscmail.ac.uk">ojs-users@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, <a href="mailto:bcla-list-request@lists.bclibrary.ca">bcla-list-request@lists.bclibrary.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:liblicense-l@listserv.crl.edu">liblicense-l@listserv.crl.edu</a><br><br><br><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">The <strong>fifth PKP international scholarly publishing conference</strong>, which takes place <strong>August 13-14 2015, in Vancouver, BC</strong>, will be an opportunity for participants to engage on the important </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#ffffff">concept of openness in all of its manifestations.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd"> 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 </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">open</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd"> digital natives; who are influenced by the broad ideas of </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">openness </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">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.</span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">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 </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">openness</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:#fdfdfd">.</span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially encouraged:</span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Roles for next generation scholars and researchers;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Community connections and partnerships;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open education and open learning;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., innovative reader interfaces;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sustainability for Open: finance and beyond;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From scholarly publishing to scholarly products, e.g. the next generation scholarly monograph; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New approaches to assessing research outcomes and impact;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The full research lifecycle and new linkages with scholarly publishing, e.g. research data.</span></p></li></ul><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for proposals</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: February 1st, 2015</span></p><div><span><br><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference website:</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015" target="_blank">http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015 </a><a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015%C2%A0" target="_blank"></a></span></span></div><div><span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For questions, please email <a href="mailto:kmeijerk@sfu.ca" target="_blank">kmeijerk@sfu.ca</a></span></span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karen</span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Karen Meijer-Kline, MA MLIS<br>Communications and Member Services Officer <br>Public Knowledge Project (PKP)<br>Simon Fraser University Library<br>Email: <a href="mailto:kmeijerk@sfu.ca" target="_blank">kmeijerk@sfu.ca</a><br>Skype: kmeijerkline<br><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/" target="_blank">https://pkp.sfu.ca/</a> <br><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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