In our recent series of Open Scholarship Webinars which have all been open to the public, OASPA has been inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates and issues in open research and open access publishing:
PhD students take on openness and academic culture Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Noémie Aubert Bonn (Hasselt University) will discuss Research Integrity and Open Science. Nadia Soliman (Imperial College, London) will talk about Leadership in Academia, and how this relates to publishing. Gareth O’Neill (Leiden University) focuses on the PhD perspective on academic culture, and Open Access policies such as Plan S. Slides can be downloaded here. Please see this post for webinar speakers’ key takeaways and answers to attendee questions.
How should Scholarly Societies transition to OA? Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews), Stuart Taylor (The Royal Society), Alicia Wise (Information Power) and Rachael Samberg (UC Berkeley Library). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here. Please see this post for webinar speakers’ key takeaways and answers to attendee questions.
How to set up your data sharing policy – Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (Springer Nature Head of Data Publishing), Tina Lee (PI and Project Coordinator of the Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management (e-I&DM) Project) and Shelley Stall (Director for American Geophysical Union’s Data Programs). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
Implementing a consortial funding model for open access publishing – Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Martin Paul Eve (Co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities), John Willinsky (Director of the Public Knowledge Project) and Oya Y. Rieger (arXiv Program Director). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
‘The Academy Takes on Publishing’_OASPA Webinar in Support of Academic Led Publishing Day – Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost UCL Library Services / Chief Executive UCL Press), Charles Watkinson (Associate University Librarian for Publishing / Director, University of Michigan Press) and Kathleen Shearer (Executive Director of Confederation of Open Access Repositories, COAR). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
The OASPA Open Science Webinar – Chair: Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi). Speakers: Dr Danny Kingsley (Cambridge University Libraries), Professor Christopher Jackson (Imperial College London), and Professor Eva Méndez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform.). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access – Chair: Dr Stuart Taylor (Royal Society). Speakers: Dr Rupert Gatti (Trinity College, Cambridge), Liz Ferguson (Wiley), and Claudio Aspesi (independent consultant). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
Previous webinars on topics relating to open access publishing:
OASPA and Knowledge Exchange Webinar: New Developments in Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Chair: Jeroen Sondervan (Knowledge Exchange). Speakers: Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN), Lucy Montgomery (Knowledge Unlatched Research), and Christina Emery (Springer Nature). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
Future of Open Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Chair: Caroline Sutton (Taylor and Francis). Speakers: Rebecca Kennison (K|N Consultants, Open Access Network) Dr Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin) and Ron Dekker (CESSDA). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
JATS for Reuse – Chair: Melissa Harrison (eLife). Speakers: Kelly McDougall (MIT Press), Mary Seligy (Canadian Science Publishing), and Stephen Laverick (Maverick). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here.
Open Access Publishing in the Global South – Ina Smith (Academy of Science of South Africa), Abel Packer (SciELO), and Xin Bi (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University/DOAJ). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here. Our blogpost summary of the webinar discussion can be found here.
Attribution in Open Access Publishing – Chair: Catriona MacCallum (PLOS). Speakers: Cameron Neylon (Curtin University), Michael Carroll (American University), and Ernesto Priego (City University London). Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here. Our blogpost summary of the webinar discussion can be found here, and our summary of our Twitter Chat on this topic can be found here.
Creative Commons Licenses, Resources, and Current Issues in Open Access Publishing – Chair: Mark Patterson, eLife. Speaker: Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons. Slides from this webinar can be downloaded here. Our blogpost summary of the webinar discussion can be found here, and our summary of our Twitter Chat on this topic can be found here.
Perspectives on Publication and Research Ethics. Chair: Jigisha Patel, BioMed Central. Speakers: Paul Peters (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), Michaela Torkar (F1000 Research) and Liz Wager (Sideview). Slides from Paul Peters’s presentation can be downloaded here, slides from Michaela Torkar’s presentation can be downloaded here, and slides from Liz Wagner’s presentation can be downloaded here.
Open Access Funding and Policy. Chair: Grace Baynes, Springer Nature. Speaker: Ros Pyne, Springer Nature. Slides from this presentation can be downloaded here.
We are able to organise these freely accessible webinars thanks to the generous support of Copyright Clearance Center.