Please join us for a lively conversation relating to Harvard Library’s commitment to advancing open access in scholarly communication with guest speaker John Willinsky. A notable author and educator, John will share his view on how copyright law needs to change to improve access to information in the U.S. and then participate in a fireside chat about copyright policy and access with Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor at Harvard Library.

LOCATION

Austin Hall, Room 100 North
Harvard Law School

John Willinsky is Professor, Simon Fraser University, and Khosla Family Professor Emeritus, Stanford University. Having founded the Public Knowledge Project in 1998, he has seen its open source Open Journal Systems (OJS) grow into the world’s most widely used journal platform. His dozen books include The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press 2006) and The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (Chicago 2017).