John willinsky biography

John Willinsky FRSC is a Canadian educator, activist, and author.
John Willinsky FRSC (born 1950) is a Canadian educator, activist, and author.
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Save the Date: A Copyright Conversation with John Willinsky

Please join us for a lively conversation relating to Harvard Library’s commitment to advancing open access in scholarly communication with guest speaker John Willinsky. A notable author and educator, John will share his view on how copyright law needs to change to improve access to information in the U.S. and then participate in a fireside chat about copyright policy and access with Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor at Harvard Library.

Bio:

John Willinsky is Professor, Simon Fraser University, and Khosla Family Professor Emeritus, Stanford University. Having founded the Public Knowledge Project in 1998, he has seen its open source Open Journal Systems (OJS) grow into the world’s most widely used journal platform. His dozen books include The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press 2006) and The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (Chicago 2017).

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John Willinsky

Khosla Family Professor, Emeritus

Graduate School of Education

Web page: http://pkp.sfu.ca

Bio

After working for some time on the educational implications of such knowledge systems as literary theory, curriculum theory, lexicography, and European imperialism, I have come to focus my studies on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for education and deliberation and whether we can develop software tools to help make that happen.

Administrative Appointments

Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education (2007 - Present)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia (1990 - 2007)
Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary (1984 - 1990)
School Teacher, Sault Ste. Marie Board of Education (1973 - 1984)

Program Affiliations

Science, Technology and Society

Professional Education

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I am a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, as well as a part-time professor in the School of Publishing at Simon Fraser University. Although I began my career as a school teacher in northern Ontario, and have taught teachers for many years, my work has been focused for some time now on seeing whether research and scholarship can, with the coming of the digital era, be more widely shared with the world, as if people had a right to knowledge such as this, when it interests and matters to them.

As part of this effort, I direct the Public Knowledge Project which has been working for nearly two decades on improving the scholarly and public quality of research through the development of open source platforms (namely Open Journal Systems) for publishing peer-reviewed journals and through a research program studying the impact of this increased access to research and scholarship on professionals and the public, as well as on the global dimensions of the academic community.

My books include include the Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Prince