{"id":6137,"date":"2014-07-10T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/experts\/building-an-infrastructure-for-global-knowledge-exchange-through-open-access\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:39:54","slug":"building-an-infrastructure-for-global-knowledge-exchange-through-open-access","status":"publish","type":"experts","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/building-an-infrastructure-for-global-knowledge-exchange-through-open-access","title":{"rendered":"Building an infrastructure for global knowledge exchange through open access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Dr. John Willinsky is a prominent figure in scholarly communications and known for both practical and theoretical contributions to the open access movement. He is the author of the award-winning books\u00a0<em>The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship<\/em>\u00a0(MIT Press, 2006) and\u00a0<em>Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire&#8217;s End<\/em>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 1998). Most of his recent research and published works discuss the topic of digital scholarship and open access.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Currently, Dr. Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and Professor of Publishing Studies (Part-time) at Simon Fraser University. He is also Founder and Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/\">Public Knowledge Project<\/a>\u00a0(PKP) in partnership with\u00a0Simon Fraser University Library. (For extended biographical information, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/beyond-open-access-sharing-research-derived-knowledge-with-society\">first part<\/a> of this two-part interview.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">PKP has developed open source software for the online management and publishing of (primarily) open access journals and books. PKP is also collaborating with other global associations on journal-development initiatives in Africa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In the first part of our Skype-based video interview, Dr. John Willinsky joined us to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/beyond-open-access-sharing-research-derived-knowledge-with-society\">the changes and challenges in academic communication and explain the idea of &#8220;public knowledge.&#8221;<\/a> In this second part, Dr. Willinsky goes on to discuss open access initiatives and who would stand to lose if such initiatives were to fully succeed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMW7svoOaiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This interview series was conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/users\/alagi-patel\">Alagi Patel.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[2842],"class_list":["post-6137","experts","type-experts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-interview-with-dr-john-willinsky"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Building an infrastructure for global knowledge exchange through open access | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this part of our video interview, Dr. John Willinsky talks about the inequity of access to research in certain parts of the world and how digital publishing and open-access initiatives might help bridge the gap. 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