9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Tuesday 19th September
6.00pm – 8.00pm Pre-Conference Networking Drinks Reception* (12th floor, Altis Grand Hotel)
Wednesday 20th September
8.00am – 9.00am Registration and coffee
9.00am – 9.30am Welcome
9.30am – 10.15am Keynote
- ‘Open access publishing policies in Europe: What the European Commission does’ – Jean-Claude Burgelman (Head of Unit, Open Data Policy and Science Cloud – European Commission)
10.15am – 10.45am Lightning Talks – Poster Presenters
- ‘#ImmigrationSyllabus: Supporting a New Open Access Genre Publication’ – Kate McCready (Director of Content Services, University of Minnesota Libraries)
- ‘Hypothes.is for Publishers and Researchers: Promoting standards-based interoperable collaboration tools’ – Heather Staines (Director of Partnerships, Hypothes.is)
- ‘Open Access Mathematics Questions’ – Chu Keong Lee (Programme Director, MSc Knowledge Management Programme, Nanyang Technological University)
- ‘Powering open academic infrastructure with Figshare’ – Natasha Punia (Client Operations, Figshare)
- ‘LusOpenEdition – Networking and community building through Open Access initiatives’ – Frédéric Vidal (Project Coordinator, LusOpenEdition)
- ‘New framework provides accreditation and support for journals in the Global South’ – Sioux Cumming (Programme Manager, Journals Online, INASP)
- ‘HIRMEOS – High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure’ – Andrea Bertino (Project Manager, Goettingen State and University Library)
10.45am – 11.15am Coffee break and poster viewing
11.15am – 12.15pm Panel 1a: Peer Review and OA Books & Monographs Publishing
- ‘Trust me – I am a publisher!’ – Anke Beck (CEO, De Gruyter)
- ‘In Praise of Peer Review’ – Lara Speicher (Publisher, UCL Press)
- ‘Kriterium – a new quality mark for Swedish academic books’ – Aina Svensson (Head, Electronic Publishing Centre, Uppsala University Library)
12.15pm – 1.15pm Panel 1b: Ethics & Practicalities of Open Peer Review in Journal Publishing
- ‘SciPost’s peer-witnessed refereeing: openness as a drive for quality’ – Jean-Sébastien Caux (Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam)
- ‘Gauging researcher attitudes to open peer review’ – Tony Ross-Hallauer (Goettingen State and University Library)
- ‘Open Peer Review: many things to many people’ – Liz Allen (Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000)
1.15pm – 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm – 3.15pm Keynote
- ‘Open Infrastructure in Scholarly Communication: What’s Ahead’ – Louise Page (Publisher, PLOS)
3.15pm – 4.30pm Panel 2: Open Infrastructure
- ‘SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services’ – Vanessa Proudman (Director, SPARC Europe)
- ‘Continuous Publication on Open Infrastructure with eLife Continuum’ – Paul Shannon (Head of Technology, eLife)
- ‘The OpenCitations Corpus and the Initiative for Open Citations’ – David Shotton (Co-Director, OpenCitations)
4.30pm – 5.00pm Coffee break and poster viewing
5:00pm – 6:00pm Show and Tell session
- ‘Connecting and Aligning Stakeholders for Efficient APC Management’ – Chuck Hemenway (Business Development Director, Copyright Clearance Center)
- ‘Landscape Study on Open Access Monographs’ – Frances Pinter (Founder and Director, Knowledge Unlatched Research)
- ‘Converting the world’s largest chemistry journal to open access’ – Jamie Humphrey (Publisher, Royal Society of Chemistry)
- ‘Results-free review – a new model of peer review for addressing publication bias’ – Liz Bal (Associate Publisher, Life Sciences BioMed Central and SpringerOpen)
- ‘Open access content as a platform for innovation’ – Maria Levchenko (Community Manager, Europe PMC)
- ‘OA for the Machines: the sci.AI Platform’ – Roman Gurinovich (CEO, Xpansa)
6:00pm – 6.30pm OASPA AGM (OASPA Members Only)
7.00pm Conference Dinner* (12th floor, Altis Grand Hotel)
Thursday 21st September
9.00am – 9.45am Keynote
‘The tail wagging the dog? Perversity in academic rewards’ – Danny Kingsley (Head of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge)
9.45am – 11.00am Panel 3: Research Evaluation and Assessment
- ‘The Nordic list – an international collaborative tool for publication analysis with relevance for open access’ – Jonas Gurell (Senior Analyst, Swedish Research Council)
- ‘The Role of the Academy of Science in research assessment and evaluation in South Africa’ – Susan Veldsman (Director, Scholarly Publication Unit – ASSaF, South Africa)
- ‘Some thoughts on evaluating research and researchers when providing support to fundamental science’ – Martin Quack (Professor, ETH Zürich)
11.00am – 11.30am Coffee
11.30am – 12.15pm Keynote
- ‘Supporting an emerging culture of preprinting in the life sciences’ – Jessica Polka (Director, ASAPbio)
12.15pm – 1.45pm Lunch
1.45pm – 3.00pm Panel 4: The Market for APCs: Stimulating Healthy Competition
- ‘The challenges of centrally funded OA for smaller publishers’ – Paul Peters (CEO, Hindawi)
- ‘The Evolution of Open Access Journal Publishing 2010-2016: A Closer Look at Journals Indexed in Scopus’ – Mikael Laakso (Assistant Professor, Hanken School of Economics)
- ‘Preparing for an OA Market Situation: What a Library Can Do’ – Colleen Campbell (Partner Development, Open Access 2020 – Max Planck Digital Library)
3.00pm – 3.45pm Keynote
- ‘OA: today, tomorrow and beyond‘ – Robert Kiley (Head of Open Research – Wellcome Trust)
3.45pm – 4.00pm Closing remarks
4.00pm Depart
* The Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner are included in the ticket price of those who bought tickets prior to August 9th, 2017. See our Registration and Accommodation page for details of how to attend the conference at the new ‘Conference only’ rate, which does not include entry to the Drinks Reception or Conference Dinner.