The Public Knowledge Project has issued a Call for Proposals for the PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec from August 2- 4, 2017. The conference will be co-hosted by Érudit, and will take place at the Université de Montréal. This year's theme is Reclaiming Scholarship: Voice, Rights, Ownership.
The conference will address issues of community voice, ownership, and control as it relates to open access publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources, citizen rights, scholars as publishers, and open source technologies. It will explore the power of community-based approaches and invites critiques of the pervasiveness of commercial publishing models (including APCs to fund open access), closed third-party systems and software, corporate concentration of scholarly publishing services, and the general ephemerality of the Web in the academic sphere.
The program will consist of a combination of invited presentations, panel discussions, brief 'lightning talks', a 2-day development sprint, and workshops.
Proposals that address one or more of the following topics are especially encouraged: Access to citizen-funded research and data; Strengthening community connections and partnerships; Amplifying diverse voices and local perspectives; Ensuring usability and meaningful user involvement; Supporting open and social scholarship; Open technologies for open education; Sustaining openness: finances and beyond; Rethinking scholarly impact; Platform ownership and control; and Innovative uses of PKP software applications.
The conference organising team invites proposals for 'lightning talks', limited to 5 minutes each. An abstract of max 250 words and a presentation title, along with a brief biographical statement, and your contact information is required to be submitted.
The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2017.
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