John Willinsky

John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and Professor (LT) at Simon Fraser University, as well as Co-Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project, which conducts research and develops the world’s most widely used open source scholarly publishing software in support of greater access to knowledge. His dozen books include “Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED” (Princeton, 1994); “Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End” (Minnesota, 1998); “The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship” (MIT, 2006); “The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke” (Chicago, 2017), and “Copyright’s Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science” (MIT, 2023).