OASPA 2021 Conference Program

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
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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

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
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
Janneke Adema, Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK
Diamond journals: Open and collaborative infrastructures (both human and technological)
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
Reggie Raju, Director: Research and Learning Services, UCT Libraries, South Africa
The Path to POSI
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
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
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
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
Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library USA
Managing library budgets for open scholarship investments
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
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
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
Daniela Saderi, Co-Founder, Director, PREreview, USA
Building trust by connecting research information
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

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
Scott Delman, Director of Publications, Association of Computing Machinery, USA
Progress on Transformative Journals: An Eye on the Data
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