I’m proud to announce that John Willinsky has joined Slaw as a columnist. And if you look to your right, you’ll see his first column on mandating free access to research. John is currently a professor at Stanford University’s School of Education [1], coming to them from the University of British Columbia, where he founded the Public Knowledge Project [2] in 1998. Professor Willinksky has written extensively on open access to scholarly research, which topic will form the basis for his columns.
John isn’t new to Slaw. When we had a theme week on Grey Lit [3], under the direction of Michael Lines, he contributed a posting on GL, Open Access, and Scholarly Publishing [4].
Oh, and you may like to think about the joke involved in the way he’s named his column.
Welcome to Slaw, John.