education policy analysis archives

Silvio Carvalho Neto
Uni-FACEF Centro Universitário Municipal de Franca
Brazil

Silvio Carvalho Neto completed his Doctorate in Management Sciences at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), with post-doctoral at Stanford University (USA) working as a visitor scholar at the Graduate School of Education. He is an associate professor and currently Vice-Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Centro Universitario Municipal de Franca-SP, Brazil. His research interests are: information systems, information and communication technology in education, virtual learning environments and online publishing systems.

John Willinsky
Stanford University
United States

John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education, Stanford University and Professor (Part-Time) Publishing Studies, SFU and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, SFU Library. John started PKP in 1998 at the University of British Columbia in an effort to create greater public and global access to research and scholarship through the use of new publishing technologies. He is the author of, among other books, Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994); Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998); Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000); and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).

Juan Pablo Alperin
http://pkp.sfu.ca/

Simon Fraser University
Canada

Juan Pablo is an Assistant Professor in Publishing and a Research Associate with the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University. 

He is a multi-disciplinary scholar that uses computational techniques, surveys, and interviews to investigate ways of raising the scientific quality, global impact, and public use of scholarly work. He is an active scholar in both the open access and altmetrics (social media metrics) communities, having received numerous invitations to speak, and publish on these topics, both in North and Latin America, and has contributed a combination of conceptual, methodological, and empirical peer-reviewed articles and presentations, as well as edited two volumes, and authored several book chapters on issues of scholarly communications in developing regions.