OASPA 2020 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Open Access at a Time of Global Challenge
#OASPA2020
21 – 24 September 2020
All recordings (see individual program sessions for direct links to slides and recording)
Speaker Biographies
Tuesday 22 September
2.30 – 3 pm
Welcome Recording
- Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
- Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK / Chair of the OASPA 2020 Program Committee
3- 4.30 pm
Extended opening panel discussion and Q&A Recording
Global collaboration, equity and openness: How has the world changed; what is the future?
- Juliette Mutheu-Asego, Head of Communications & PR African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Kenya
- Erin O’Shea, President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
- Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Chair: Catriona MacCallum, Director of Open Science, Hindawi, UK
5 -6.30 pm
Panel 1 | Funding and business mechanisms for equitable open access Recording
- Communal paths to equitable open access: a discipline-driven subscribe-to-open model Slides
Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director, Berghahn Books, USA - Leveling the playing field: reimagining community investment in open scholarship Slides
Sharla Lair, Strategist, Content & Scholarly Communication Initiatives, LYRASIS, USA Slides - ‘Scaling small’: new forms of collectivity for resilient open access Slides
Samuel A. Moore, Research Fellow, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK - The Democratizing Value of Open Access Slides
Alexia Hudson-Ward, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College and Conservatory/ Incoming Associate Director of Research and Learning – MIT Libraries, USA (starting Oct 2020)
Chair: Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan, USA
7 – 8 pm
Keynote 1 Recording
- Integrating Discovery and Access for Scholarly Articles
Anurag Acharya, Co-founder of Google Scholar, USA
Introduced by Abel Packer, Co-Founder and Directo, SciELO, Brazil
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Wednesday 23 September
11.30 am – 1 pm
Panel 2 | Small and scholar-led : What lessons can they teach us? Recording
- Mid-to Long Term Strategy of J-STAGE: with 1700 Japanese learned societies Slides
Ritsuko Nakajima, Director of Department for Information Infrastructure, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan - Open Access Publishing Initiatives at Universidade de São Paulo: a learning process for all Slides
Elisabeth Adriana Dudziak, Agency USP for Scholarly Communication – AGUIA – Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil - Small and scholar-led in Europe: an industrial district Slides
Pierre Mounier, OPERAS Coordinator, France - Salmina Mokgehle, Associate Editor Mentee at the South African Journal of Science in the Field of Agriculture and Forestry, South Africa Slides
Chair: Salmina Mokgehle, Associate Editor Mentee at the South African Journal of Science in the Field of Agriculture and Forestry, South Africa
1.30 – 2.30 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 1 Recording
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
- Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we publish research?
Sarah Greaves, Independent STM Consultant, UK - Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Finland - The impact of COVID-19 on data sharing and the future of FAIR
Alan Hyndman, Figshare, UK - Transitioning journals to open access via stakeholder-governed infrastructures
Jeroen Sondervan, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Sofie Wennström, National Library of Sweden - The Microbiology Society on Transformative agreements
Tasha Mellins-Cohen, The Microbiology Society, UK - Sustainable Open Access: Scholar-led, Non-APC and (Biblio-)diverse
Marcel Wrzesinski, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Germany - Global grant IDs in Europe PMC
Christine Ferguson, EMBL-EBI, UK - As-you-go instead of after-the-fact: Free, open, and modular research communication
Chris Hartgerink, Liberate Science, Germany - Interactive dashboard of the OA Journal Landscape
Maurits van der Graaf, Pleiade Management and Consultancy, The Netherlands - CoVis – a new tool to discover reliable COVID-19 research
Peter Kraker, Open Knowledge Maps, Austria
3 – 4.30 pm
Panel 3 | Open infrastructure: What forms of community-owned and open-source systems are important and why? Recording
- Supporting the Future of Open Scholarship Slides
Kaitlin Thaney Executive Director, Invest in Open Infrastructure, USA - The ‘Berlin Wall’ of prestige in academic and research ecosystem Slides
Dasapta Erwin Irawan RINarxiv, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia - Open Mantra for Open Science Slides
Devika Madalli Professor and Head, Documentation Research and Training Center (DRTC Indian Statistical Institute, India - Reflections about Open Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications in Latin America Slides
Arley Soto, Innovation Manager, Biteca SAS, Colombia
Chair: Juan Pablo Alperin, Director, Scholcommlab / Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project, Canada
5 – 6.30 pm
Panel 4 | The future of open research communication: Where are we headed and how could we prepare? Recording
- Preprints: paving the way towards Open Science Slides
Alex Mendonça, Preprints and Online Submission Coordinator, SciELO, Brazil - Texts as data: Towards a FAIRer, open landscape in the humanities Slides
Elena Giglia, Head of the Open Access Office – University of Turin, Italy - We have seen the future of publishing and it’s not what counts Slides
Kristen Ratan, Founder – Stratos (Strategies for Open Science), USA
Chair: Xenia van Edig, Open-access Publication Platform Manager, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany
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Thursday 24 September
10.30 – 11.30 am
Keynote 2 Recording
- Evolution of Basic Research and Assessment Metrics in China Slides
Professor Wei Yang, Professor and Chairman of the Development Council of Zhejiang University, China Introduced by Shuai Yan, Independent Consultant, China
12 – 1.30 pm
Panel 5 | Researchers, open science and open access behaviours – what changed in 2020? Recording
- Behavioural changes in the research landscape: a perspective Slides
Thirumalachari Ramasami, Former Indian Science and Technology Secretary and Nayudamma-Abdul Wahid Chair Professor, Anna University, India - Research on research: work in progress Slides
Stephen Pinfield, Professor of Information Services Management, University of Sheffield, UK - In a Time of Global Challenge, Open Access Policy in CMAPH Slides
Yang Pan, Director of Marketing & Public Relations Department, CMAPH (Chinese Medical Association’s Publishing House), China - Hélène Draux, Research Data Scientist, Digital Science, UK Slides
Chair: Catriona MacCallum, Director of Open Science, Hindawi, UK
2 – 3.30 pm
Panel 6 | Pricing and cost transparency: Is it time to unbundle the “end to end” publication process? Recording
- Throwing off the shackles of legacy pricing (and publishing) in scholarly communications Slides
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), Canada -
The Plan S Price Transparency Frameworks Slides
Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S and Professor of French Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands - Transparency, or, the Truth about (HSS) Publishing Slides
Stephanie Paalvast, Head of Open Research, Brill, The Netherlands - Opening up the books: the value of transparency at Open Book Publishers Slides
Lucy Barnes, Editor and Outreach Coordinator, Open Book Publishers, UK
Chair: Emma Wilson, Director of Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
4 – 5 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 2 Recording
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
- Open Science—for and with communities, and beyond open access
Budd Hall, University of Victoria, Canada and Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada - Research data and the academic reward system
Erica Morissette, ScholCommLab and University of Ottawa / Meaningful Data Counts, Canada - Make Data Count: why need to be citing data
Rachael Lammey, Crossref, UK - OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit
Christina Emery, Springer Nature, UK - Linking Publications to Institutions Using Open ROR IDs
Maria Gould The Research Organization Registry (ROR), USA - preLights – a community platform for preprint highlights
Mate Palfy, The Company of Biologists, UK - Creative Commons NC Licenses – Open or Not so Open Access?
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, punctum books - Towards Open Physics
Daniel Keirs, IOP Publishing, UK - Review Commons: a journal-independent peer review platform
Thomas Lemberger EMBO, USA
- Introducing the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA)
Stuart Taylor, Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA)/The Royal Society, UK
5 – 5.30 pm
Closing Remarks Recording
Jennifer Gibson, eLife, UK / Chair of the OASPA 2020 Program Committee
Please review the OASPA 2020 Participation Agreement. We ask all participants to agree to participate according to these principles.
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2020 OASPA Conference Committee
Jennifer Gibson (eLife) – Chair
Xenia van Edig (Technische Informationsbibliothek, TIB)
Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi)
Emma Wilson (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Juan Pablo Alperin (ScholCommLab/Public Knowledge Project)
Abel Packer (SciELO)
Shuai Yan (Independent Consultant, China)
Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan)