PKP Among 1st Mellon Prize Winners for Open Source Projects
PKP was the sole Canadian winner ($50,000 USD) among the ten prizes awarded and the one prize given for scholarly communication software for its Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support open source software development in higher education.
$50,000 to the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) for the development and contribution of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The University of British Columbia was recognized for its creation and support of the Public Knowledge Project, an initiative that provides a variety of open source tools supporting open scholarly communications. The Committee particularly noted PKP’s potential for the creation of vital academic disciplines and publications in developing countries. UBC plans to use the award to conduct a series of workshops, surveys, and other activities aimed at paving the way for adoption of the Public Knowledge Project tools by Latin American academics.
PS: Several of the other winners have an OA connection: The Internet Archive's Heritrix web crawler; the open-source Moodle course management system; the open-source Sakai course management system; and the WPOPAC online public access catalog.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/10/2006 11:52:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
