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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:31:02 -0000
From: "H.R. Mohan" <hrmohan123@yahoo.com>
Subject: Chennai meet: Open Access of Information
TOPIC : Open Access of information using Open Source Systems
SPEAKER : Prof. John Willinsky
Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology
University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.
DATE : Saturday, 8th February 2003
TIME : 4.30 p.m.
Hi-Tea : After the talk
VENUE : HOTEL TAJ CONNEMARA, Chennai
About the Speaker & Talk:
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Prof. John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy
and Technology in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at
the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada. He holds prestigious Mac Arthur Fellowship. He
directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is dedicated to developing
online conferences, journals, and indexing systems that improve the
scholarly and public quality of academic research. He is also an expert
in using technology in literacy efforts.
Prof. John Willinsky will address on the current situation around
electronic access to research and its potential for the future under
different models. He will also demonstrate the potential of new open
source systems, some of which have been developed by him, in assisting
the existing and new Indian journals in moving into an online environment
in ways that improve both the scholarly and public quality of the
research.
It may be noted that the open access project is making the information
available to researchers using open systems which are free. It is more
towards information handling and sharing and bridge the digital
divide. It will also deal with knowledge creation, PR issues, copyright,
self archiving and digital libraries.
K.Jayaramakrishnan Dr. R. Samyuktha
Hon. Secretary Secretary
Computer Society of India Madras Library Association
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