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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Born in Toronto, Ontario, John Willinsky taught school for 8 years</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'>before taking a doctorate in the study of education, and subsequently</span><br><span style='background:white'>became a professor of education at the University of British Columbia</span><br><span style='background:white'>(UBC). In 2008, he moved to Stanford where he is currently the Khosla</span><br><span style='background:white'>Family Professor in the Graduate School of Education.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Willinsky’s interest in what later became known as open access began</span><br><span style='background:white'>in 1998, with his efforts to bring the evidence of research to bear on</span><br><span style='background:white'>local journalism. He quickly realised, however, that his ambitions</span><br><span style='background:white'>were significantly challenged by the fact that most scholarly journals</span><br><span style='background:white'>required a subscription to read, and many had yet to move online.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>So he shifted focus, and instead began trying to convince journals and</span><br><span style='background:white'>conferences that they should go online, in the hope that this would</span><br><span style='background:white'>enable greater public access to research. To help persuade editors and</span><br><span style='background:white'>journals to make the move he founded the Public Knowledge Project</span><br><span style='background:white'>(PKP), which subsequently evolved into a partnership with the Simon</span><br><span style='background:white'>Fraser University Library and Stanford University.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>PKP’s first project was to develop an open source publishing platform</span><br><span style='background:white'>called Open Journal Systems (OJS). This proved hugely successful, and</span><br><span style='background:white'>by 2013 around 8,000 journals were actively using OJS as their online</span><br><span style='background:white'>publishing platform.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>PKP has gone on to develop a portfolio of other open source tools as</span><br><span style='background:white'>well, including Open Monograph Press, Open Conference Systems and Open</span><br><span style='background:white'>Harvester Systems.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>In 2006 Willinsky published one of the key texts of the open access</span><br><span style='background:white'>movement — The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research</span><br><span style='background:white'>and Scholarship.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>The Access Principle, explains Willinsky was an attempt to establish</span><br><span style='background:white'>open access as a worthy topic of scholarly treatment. “I wanted to</span><br><span style='background:white'>assert that this was not simply a side line, like choosing the title</span><br><span style='background:white'>of a journal, but really was part of what it meant to do research and</span><br><span style='background:white'>scholarship, part of what it meant to claim to be producing knowledge</span><br><span style='background:white'>for the benefit of the world.”</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>An interview with John Willinsky can be read here:</span><br><br></span><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-open-access-interviews-john.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-open-access-interviews-john.html</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>