Past Forums

May 19, 2016

LPForum 2016

Keynote Speakers

Cheryl BallCheryl E. Ball

Cheryl is Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University and editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She  teaches classes in editing, multimedia authoring, and digital publishing. Ball has published articles and webtexts on multimodal composition and digital publishing inClassroom Discourse, Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Fibreculture, Convergence, Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, Programmatic Perspectives, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Writing & Pedagogy. She has also published several books, including The New Work of Composing (co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman); RAW: Reading and Writing New Media (co-edited with Jim Kalmbach); andWriter/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects (co-authored with Kristin Arola & Jenny Sheppard). She is co-PI on a $1m Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to build an open-access, multimedia, academic publishing platform, Vega.

Dan MorganDan Morgan

Dan is Digital Science Publisher at the University of California Press, and the Publisher of Collabra (Collabra.org), the Press’ new value-sharing OA journal. He joined UC Press in June 2014 to focus on mission-driven, not-for-profit, digital initiatives. He has worked in scholarly publishing for over 13 years, in publishing management, research, open access, and strategy roles. All of that time was at Elsevier where he ended up the head of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences journals department, then Senior Manager for Open Access and other outreach for North America. He is a passionate advocate for open access, open science, and advancing scholarly communication.

March 30, 2015

LP Forum 2015

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Martin Paul Eve

Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK, specialising in contemporary American fiction, primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Martin is the author of two books, Pynchon and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014) and Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014). In addition, Martin is well-known for his work on open access, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academic Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Access Steering Group, the Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Group and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel and founding the Open Library of Humanities.

Dr. John Willinsky

John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, as well as Professor (Part-Time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which conducts research and develops open source scholarly publishing software in support of greater access to knowledge. His books include the Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994); Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998); Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000); and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).

Recordings of selected sessions are available via New Prairie Press.

 

March 6, 2014

LP Forum 2014

Keynotes

John Unsworth, University Librarian, Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services, and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University

Peter Berkery, Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses

Recordings of the keynotes and panels are now available, courtesy of New Prairie Press.

Posters are now available via the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.