John Willinsky

= Open Access advocate for scholarly publishing

Bio

"Dr. John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Willinsky taught school in Ontario for 10 years and, with Vivian Forssman, developed the Information Technology Management program for high schools in British Columbia and Ontario.

Willinsky is the author of "Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End", which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, "Technologies of Knowing", "If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research", and "The Access Principle".

He directs the Public Knowledge Project at UBC, which is researching systems that hold promise for improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research." (http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1848.html)

He is the author of The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006), and directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is the developer of Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems that offer open source approaches for improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research." (http://publius.cc/2008/06/04/john-willinsky-might-the-age-of-information-graduate-into-an-era-of/)