The Public Knowledge Project is a Canadian research initiative started nine years ago in order to develop “free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences.” In doing so, they have found themselves at the forefront of both the open source and open access movements.
With the trend of increasing subscription prices and tightening budgets only getting worse, projects like this may play an ever greater role in our libraries in years to come.
from IT Manager’s Journal, via NewsForge
