OASPA 2021 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Designing 21st Century Knowledge Sharing Systems
#OASPA2021
21 – 23 September 2021
All times listed are UK BST (British Summer Time) / UTC +1
2021 Speaker Biographies
All recordings (see individual program sessions for direct links to slides and recording)
Tuesday 21 September
2 – 2.15 pm
Welcome and Conference Opening
- Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
2.15- 3 pm
Keynote 1: Knowledge Production and Health Equity SLIDES
- James Tumwine, Professor Emeritus, Makerere University School of Medicine; Professor, Kabale University School of Medicine, Uganda
Introduced by Leslie Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
3.15 – 4.45 pm
Extended opening panel discussion and Q&A
Imagining Other Worlds of Knowledge Making and Sharing
- Fernanda Beigel, Principal Researcher at CONICET, Director of the Research Center on the Circulation of Knowledge, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), Argentina
- Ibrahim Oanda Ogachi, Senior Program Officer and Head, Training, Grants and Fellowships, Council for the Development of Social Science Research In Africa (CODESRIA), Senegal
- Susan Skomal, President & CEO, BioOne, USA SLIDES
- Tim Wilson, Associate Vice-President, Research Programs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Chairs: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK and Leslie Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
5.15 -6.45 pm
Panel 1 | Open Infrastructure and Collaboration
- Community Governance – Processes and Best Practices SLIDES
Janneke Adema, Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK - Diamond journals: Open and collaborative infrastructures (both human and technological) SLIDES
Viviana Martinovich, Managing editor, Salud Colectiva and Adjunct Professor of Postgraduate Courses, Institute of Collective Health, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (ISCO-UNLa), Argentina and Vanessa Di Cecco, Managing editor in English, Salud Colectiva, Argentina - Library publishing: building an infrastructure from and for the academy SLIDES
Reggie Raju, Director: Research and Learning Services, UCT Libraries, South Africa - The Path to POSI SLIDES
Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Crossref, UK
Chair: Juan Pablo Alperin, Director, Scholcommlab / Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project, Canada
7 – 8 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 1
- Opening Monographs: The MIT Press Direct to Open
Emily Farrell, Library Partnerships & Sales Lead, The MIT Press, USA - Promoting Open Science in Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA): An Industry Effort to Simplify Transfer of Data and Files and Support Openness in Peer Review
Tony Alves, SVP, Product Management, HighWire Press; Co-chair, MECA Standing Committee, NISO, USA - Transformative Agreements – Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
Bernhard Mittermaier, Library Director, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany - Open science education in practice: Introducing undergraduate students to the importance of open and transparent research
Kevin Read, Associate Librarian, University of Saskatchewan, Canada - From quantity to quality in open access: the OA publishers’ role
Jeroen Sondervan, Project Leader Open Access/Open Science and Jeroen Bosman, Scholarly Communications and Geoscience Librarian, Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands - Assessing the Open Ethos: A Look at the Global Landscape of Open Access Journal Publishing Through Copyright and Licensing Practices
Melissa Cantrell, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder, USA and Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Villanova University, USA - Living the POSI life: practical steps for open infrastructure organizations to work towards sustainability, good governance, and community assurance
Maria Gould, ROR Project Lead, University of California, USA - An Update on Support for Open-Access Journals at a Mission-Driven University Press
Mandy Brannon, Library Relations Project Manager, Duke University Press, USA - Fund to Mission: The University of Michigan Press’s Transition to Open
Emma DiPasquale, Library Relations Manager, Michigan Publishing, USA - COAR Notify Project: Bridging the green / gold divide
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR, Canada
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
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Wednesday 22 September
12.30 – 1.15 pm
Keynote: Science journalism, preprints, and COVID-19: some lessons
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science Journalist, UK
Introduced by Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Founder and Director, Mellins-Cohen Consulting, UK
1.30 – 3 pm
Panel 2 | OA policies and mandates: lessons learnt from global cases
- Developing the UKRI monographs policy
Rachel Bruce, Head of Open Research, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK - Designing and implementing a national strategy for Open Access in Angola: A south-south collaboration SLIDES
Eurico Wongo Gungula, Associate professor and Rector, Óscar Ribas University, Angola - Open Access Mandates: Necessary but not sufficient
Ana Maria Cetto, Professor, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Diamond Publishing and OA Policies: a tale of mutual ignorance SLIDES
Pierre Mounier, OPERAS Coordinator, France
Chair: Arianna Becerril García, Professor, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
3.30 – 4.30 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 2
- Octopus – All of Science in One Place
Alexandra Freeman, Director, Octopus Publishing CIC , UK - Accelerating transparent peer review with refereed preprints
Sara Monaco, Managing Editor – Review Commons, EMBO, Germany - Open Plus Books
Zena Nyakoojo, Head of Editorial, F1000, UK - Beyond the journal: a Microbiology Society open research platform
Alex Howat, Publishing Operations Manager, Microbiology Society, UK - DOAB Certification Service
Niels Stern Co-director (DOAB Foundation), Director (OAPEN Foundation), The Netherlands - Flip it Open
Ben Denne, Director of Publishing (Academic Books); Cambridge University Press & Assessment, UK - Open Humanities: A Values-Based Approach
Catherine Cocks, Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief, Michigan State University Press, USA - An Introduction to The Open Access Books Network (OABN)
Agata Morka, SPARC Europe, Germany - Addressing ethical challenges in the publication of research data. Resources by the community for the community
Iratxe Puebla, Associate Director, ASAPbio, UK - ‘Opening the Future’ – a new funding model for open-access monographs. Introducing an innovative approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding
Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck (University of London), UK
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
5 – 6.30 pm
Panel 3 | Libraries and Open Access: Pathways to Transformation
- Library as Buyer: Considerations during the open transition SLIDES
Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections, Iowa State University, USA - The Library as Publisher: Values-based institutional publishing as a key path to open scholarship SLIDES
Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library USA - Managing library budgets for open scholarship investments SLIDES
Demmy Verbeke, Head Artes, KU Leuven Libraries, Belgium
Chair: Graham Stone, Subject Matter Expert (Open Access Monographs), Jisc, UK
7 – 8 pm
Group discussion: What is the role of a publisher?
In this session, we will be inviting the audience to join a group conversation regarding the role of the publisher today and in the future in relation to core principles of scholarly communications. We will be digging into such areas as quality control, integrity, preservation and the cumulation of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Do these principles still apply? Have other principles emerged? What best practices exist for upholding these principles? What role does and will publishers (of all sorts) play in innovating best practices while upholding core principles? Our audience will be invited to contribute and respond to questions via mentimeter.
- Toby Green, Co-Founder, Coherent Digital, France
- Kristen Ratan, Founder, Stratos, USA
- Xenia van Edig, Open Access Platform Manager, TIB Open Publishing/TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany
Chair: Caroline Sutton, Director of Open Research, Taylor & Francis, Norway
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Thursday 23 September
11:00 am – 12.30 pm
Panel 4: Game-changers: Revisiting and reforming modes and moments for sharing new findings
- Knowledge mining from Research Graph and Open Scholarly Works SLIDES
Amir Aryani, Head of Social Data Analytics (SoDA) Lab, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - The Future of Scholarly Publishing under Digital Transformation – Data, AI and Token Economy SLIDES
Xiaofeng Chen, Hubei Academy of Scientific and Technical Information, China - The path to reforming peer review begins with community, works through equity, and ends in trust SLIDES
Daniela Saderi, Co-Founder, Director, PREreview, USA - Building trust by connecting research information SLIDES
Tim Koder, Communications Director, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd, UK
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
1 – 2 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 3
- From Collection Development Policy to Comprehensive Content Strategy: building support for Open Access into library acquisitions
Peter Barr, University of Sheffield, UK - Supporting authors in Lower and Middle Income Countries
Katie Foxall, Head of Publishing, ecancer, UK - Welcome to JASPER! (JournAlS are Preserved ForevER)
Dom Mitchell, DOAJ / Project JASPER, Sweden - Using Assessment to Encourage Principles-Based Alignment in Scholarly Publishing
Katherine Skinner and Sarah Lippincott - Sciety
Hannah Drury, Product Manager, eLife and Sciety, UK - Transparent and Reproducible Open Access Monitoring in the Netherlands using the OAmonitor R package
Kristina Hettne, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Leiden University Libraries, The Netherlands - Wins all the way: bringing the benefits of PIDs home for publishers
Josh Brown, Co-Founder, Research and Strategy, MoreBrains Cooperative, UK - Quartz OA: Just Open Access
Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés, Strategy and Research Manager, Quartz OA, Netherlands - The COPIM project platform: New infrastructures for Open Access books
Judith Fathallah, Research and Outreach Associate, Lancaster University, UK - OpenCitations – what does the future hold?
David Shotton, Director, OpenCitations, UK
Chair: Jennifer Gibson, Head of Open Research Communication, eLife, UK
2.15 – 2.45 pm
Co-Creating a Healthy Open Access Market – Project Feedback Session SLIDES
- Rob Johnson, Managing Director, Research Consulting, UK
- Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
3 – 4.30pm
Panel 5 | The transformative agreement landscape: Where are we now?
- The Future is Unlimited SLIDES
Scott Delman, Director of Publications, Association of Computing Machinery, USA - Progress on Transformative Journals: An Eye on the Data SLIDES
Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement & Senior Consultant, Delta Think, USA - Truly transformative or tightening the shackles?
Yvonne Nobis, Head of Physical Sciences, Cambridge University Library, UK - Paving the TA way – successes and challenges
Carrie Webster, VP Open Access, Springer Nature, UK
Chair: Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Founder and Director, Mellins-Cohen Consulting, UK
4.30 – 5.00 pm
Conference reflections and close
- Jennifer Gibson, eLife, UK / Chair of OASPA
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2021 OASPA Conference Committee
Juan Pablo Alperin (ScholCommLab/Public Knowledge Project)
Arianna Becerril García (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico)
Leslie Chan (Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough)
Ella Chen (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Jennifer Gibson (eLife)
Raoul Kamadjeu (Pan African Medical Journal)
Tasha Mellins-Cohen (Mellins-Cohen Consulting)
Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)
Lara Speicher (UCL Press)
Graham Stone (Jisc)
Caroline Sutton (Taylor & Francis)