OASPA

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

Sign up for OASPA Conference News




* = required field

COASP 2016 Program

Westin Arlington Gateway, Virginia

 

Tuesday 20th September

6.00pm – 8.00pm      Pre-Conference Networking Drinks Reception *

 

Wednesday 21st September

8.00am – 9.00am      Registration and coffee

9.00am – 9.30am      Welcome

9.30am – 10.15am     Keynote

  • ‘It’s Not Easy Being Open’ – Heather Joseph (Executive Director, SPARC)

10.15am – 10.45am   Lightning Talks – Poster Presenters

  • ‘The Book Peer-Review Process — Who, What and Why’ – Sofie Wennström (Analyst/Managing Editor, Stockholm University Press)
  • ‘Rewarding Transparent and Reproducible Scholarship’ – David Mellor (Project Manager, Center for Open Science)
  • ‘Come Together Right Now: An Introduction to the Open Access Network’ – Rebecca Kennison (Principal, K|N Consultants)
  • ‘Using Reference Lists to Recruit Scholars to Open Access’ – John Dove (President,Paloma & Associates)
  • ‘Lever Press and Fulcrum: Open Monographs on an Open Platform’ – Jason Colman (Director, Michigan Publishing Services)
  • ‘Improving author adherence to reporting guidelines’ – Diana Marshall (Publisher, BMC Journals)
  • ‘Finding a data sharing solution with Dataverse’ – Sonia Barbosa (Manager of Data Curation, Dataverse)
  • ’15 years of interactive open-access publishing’ – Xenia van Edig (Business Development, Copernicus Publications)

10.45am – 11.15am   Coffee break and poster viewing

11.15am – 12.30pm   Panel 1: Technology and Innovation

  • ‘From open access to open science: why the paper of the future will be data-driven’ – Alberto Pepe (Founder/CEO, Authorea)
  • ‘Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge: Wikidata as the missing link between scholarly publishing and linked open data’ – Dario Taraborelli (Head of Research, Wikimedia)
  • ‘Atomized content – the future of scientific information’ – Katharina Volz (CEO, OccamzRazor)

12.30pm – 2.00pm    Lunch

2.00pm – 2.45pm      Keynote

  • ‘Financial Sustainability of Open Access Scholarly Journals at Scale’ – MacKenzie Smith (University Librarian, University of California, Davis)

2.45pm – 4.00pm      Panel 2: Non APC OA publishing

  • ‘Flipping the Script: Building Cooperatives in Scholarly Publishing for Open Access’ – Kamran Naim (Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University Graduate School of Education; Researcher, Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study)
  • ‘Building a Non-APC Business Model for Humanities Journal Publishing’ – Caroline Edwards (Editorial Director, Open Library of Humanities)
  • ‘The Open Access Model in Latin America’ – Arianna Becerril (Technology and Innovation Director, Redalyc)

4.00pm – 4.30pm       Coffee break and poster viewing

4.30pm – 5.45pm       Show and Tell session

  • ‘The internationalization of SciELO Brazil journals‘ – Abel Packer (Director, SciELO)
  • ‘Results of Journal Flipping Project‘ – David Soloman (Professor, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University)
  • ‘Research data: from journal policy to practice‘ – Amye Kenall (‎Global Head of Life Sciences,  Springer Nature)
  • ‘An overview of PubMed Central’s (PMC) inter-agency public access efforts‘ – Kathryn Funk (Program Specialist, PubMed Central, at the National Library of Medicine)
  • ‘Open access and cancer research‘ – Katie Foxall (Head of Publishing, ecancer)
  • ‘Six Degrees of Connectedness – mapping Open Access’s many lives‘ – Jennifer Lin (Director of Product Management, CrossRef)

5.45pm – 6.15pm       OASPA AGM (OASPA Members Only)

7.00pm                         Conference Dinner *

 

Thursday 22nd September

9.00am – 9.45am       Keynote

  • ‘Openness and consequences: Directions in pre- and post-publication peer review’ – Hilda Bastian (Chief Editor, PubMed Health/PubMed Commons)

9.45am – 11.00am      Panel 3: Evaluation

  • ‘Middle author dilemma: how to recognize critical contributions of multidisciplinary teams’ – Melissa Gymrek (Assistant Professor,University of California San Diego)
  • ‘Credit where Credit is Due: Acknowledging all Types of Contributions’ – Melissa Haendel (Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University and FORCE11)
  • ‘Credit and Accountability – Tools for a Better Ecosystem’ – Veronique Kiermer (Executive Editor, PLOS Journals)

11.00am – 11.30am     Coffee

11.30am – 12.15pm     Keynote

  • ‘A Newcomers Perspective on Lessons Learned (or not) Toward Open Access Within Scholarly Communication’ – Meredith Morovati (Executive Director, Dryad)

12.15pm – 1.45pm       Lunch

1.45pm – 3.00pm         Panel 4: Open Scholarship Initiatives

  • ‘bioRxiv: A Preprint Service for the Life Sciences.’ John Inglis (Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press)
  • ‘Anthropology Commons: An Open Archive Initiative at Alexander Street’ – Jenna Makowski (Editor, Anthropology and Area Studies Collections, Alexander Street Press)
  • ‘MLA Commons & CORE: Networking Scholarly Communication’ – Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association)

3.00pm – 3.45pm         Keynote

  • ‘Going Open: Access, Data, Science, and Beyond….’ – Jerry Sheehan (Assistant Director for Scientific Data & Information, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)

3.45pm – 4.00pm         Closing remarks

4.00pm                           Coffee / Depart

*The Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner are included in the ticket price.  See our Registration and Accommodation page for details of how to attend the conference and to book rooms at the hotel at our discounted delegate rate.