Journals
Stanford University Press (SUP) is delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) aimed at expanding sustainable Open Access (OA) models of journal publishing. Having a distinguished university press join forces with a university-based open infrastructure project represents a significant advance in the academic community’s claim on scholarly publishing’s future.
The Public Knowledge Project, founded 25 years ago and based at Simon Fraser University (SFU), has long been active on the Stanford campus through its founder, Stanford’s Khosla Family Professor of Education Emeritus, John Willinsky. It developed Open Journal System (OJS), a widely acclaimed open source platform that currently manages the editorial workflow and publishing process for over 34,000 journals.
This initiative, developed in consultation with the Office of Scholarly Communications at the Stanford Libraries, is a response to the rapidly increasing burdens imposed on commercial publishers’ journal editors and their boards in the form of higher article processing charges (APCs) and increased publication rates. This is a partnership of two long-established university organizations. It utilizes the strengths and resources of each to provide journals with an experienced publisher and platform developer that will offer journals both subscribe-to-open and reasonably priced APC paths, increasing access for authors and readers.
Reviews of Economic Literature