Beyond Open Access #OASPA2022
20 – 22 September 2022
All times listed are UK BST (British Summer Time) / UTC +1
This is a global event with sessions scheduled across speaker time zones –
some session timings may be subject to change
Registration https://oaspa2022.eventbrite.co.uk
Session descriptions / Speaker Biographies
Tuesday 20 September
2 – 2.15 pm
Welcome and Conference Opening
- Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
2.15- 3.45 pm
Extended opening panel discussion and Q&A
Towards equitable open access – how do we get there?
- Geoffrey Boulton, Edinburgh University / International Science Council, UK
- Melissa Hagemann, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations, USA
- Sudip Parikh, AAAS, USA
- Brigitte Shull, Cambridge University Press, USA
- Anasuya Sengupta, Whose Knowledge?, UK
Moderated by Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
4 – 5 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 1
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad and OASPA Chair
- Collaborating towards practical mechanisms to address global equity in scholarly journal publishing
Colleen Campbell, Coordinator, Open Access 2020 Initiative, Max Planck Digital Library (Max Planck Society), Germany - Fund to Mission at University of Michigan: A Sustainable Approaches to Enriched, Open Humanities Books
Kristen Twardowski, Director, Sales Marketing and Outreach, University of Michigan Press, USA - And what if we designed a positive, comprehensive policy for digital knowledge?
Stephen Wyber, Knowledge Rights 21, Director, Policy and Advocacy, IFLA, Netherlands - Quartz OA: Just Open Access
Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés, Quartz Open Access, Spain - Collaborating with the computational biology community to increase sharing of code supporting publications
Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS, UK - Sciety: for peer-led organisation of preprints activity progress
Godwyns Onwuchekwa, Head of Communities, eLife/Sciety, UK - Is there an Open Access advantage for policy citations?
Katherine Stephan, Product Specialist, Overton, UK - JMIRx SuperJournals and Plan P
Gunther Eysenbach, JMIR Publications, Canada - Supporting an evolving scholarly record through relationships in metadata
Rosa Clark, Communications & Events Manager, Crossref, USA - OA Switchboard: a safe space for publication metadata
Yvonne Campfens, Stichting OA Switchboard, Netherlands
5.15 – 6 pm
Keynote: Embracing Real-World Complexity On The Road To Open Scholarship
Amy Brand, Director and Publisher, MIT Press, USA
Introduced by Bernie Folan, Communications, Outreach and Engagement Manager, OASPA
Wednesday 21 September
11 am – 12 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 2
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad and OASPA Chair
- OA books toolkit
Christina Emery, Thought Leadership Programmes, Springer Nature, UK and Ronald Snijder Deputy Director, OAPEN, Netherlands - Poking the Beast: Challenges and Ways Forward in Publishing Open Access in Classical Studies
Manolis Pagkalos and Stefanos Apostolou, Isegoria Publishing, UK - Scholar content transformation from submission to publishing
Rima Isaifan, Head of Academic & Journals Publishing, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, Qatar - Open Access initiatives across tertiary vocational education in Aotearoa New Zealand
James Savage, Research Coordinator, Southern Institute of Technology, New Zealand - Navigating the FOREST: Applying a framework for values-driven publishing
Sarah Lippincott, Product Lead, Next Generation Library Publishing, USA - Publish Your Reviews: journal-based peer review and preprint peer review reinforcing each other
Ludo Waltman, Professor of Quantitative Science Studies, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University - Turning vision into practice: Monitoring the effects of an open sharing statement during the COVID-19 pandemic
Andrea Chiarelli, Senior Consultant, Research Consulting, UK - Understanding the perceived value and awareness about Open Science amongst researchers
Uttkarsha Bhosale and Riya Thomas, Scientific Content Experts, Enago, India - Innovations in open science & scholarly publishing: Showcase of the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal
Maria Kolesnikova, Marketing and Sales Manager, Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria - Improving public peer review accessibility and reuse – the Europe PMC perspective
Melissa Harrison, Europe PMC, UK
12.15 – 1.45 pm
Panel | Open Scholarship and Data Practices in the Global South
- Initiatives and challenges of Open Science in South America
Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Computação, Brazil
- Towards Open Science: a case study in Indonesia
Madiareni Sulaiman, Research Data Librarian, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia; PhD Student in Information Studies (RDM), University College London, UK
- Data and Information Access Initiatives in Bangladesh
Susmita Das, Principal Documentation Officer, Agricultural Information Center, BARC, Bangladesh
- Open Science in India: Creating an Enabling Environment for Improving Access to Data and Scholarship
Sridhar Gutam, Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology), ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru, India
Chair: Omo Oaiya, West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), Nigeria
2 – 2.45 pm
Keynote | Digital Bundles: Creating a new space for Indigenous Knowledge that moves Beyond Open Access Publishing
Jennifer Wemigwans, University of Toronto, Canada
Introduced by Leslie Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
3 – 4.30 pm
Panel | What Open Means for the Humanities
- Humanities Commons: What We Have to Share
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University, USA - Posthumanities Publishing: How to Reperform Our Ideas of the Humanities
Janneke Adema, Coventry University, UK - Loners, pathfinders or explorers? How epistemic cultures of arts and humanities can innovate Open Access publishing
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH ERIC, Germany
Chair: Lucy Oates, Oxford University Press, USA and Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library, USA
4.45 – 6.15 pm
Panel | Subscribe to Open (S2O) experiences shared
- Using S2O to achieve APC-free Open Access in the Social Sciences
Vivian Berghahn, Berghahn Books, USA
- Transforming 10 STEM journals with Open Access and S2O
Rod Cookson, IWA Publishing, UK
- Bridging the divide: Using Subscribe to Open to launch a journal connecting climate research and policy
Antonia Pop,Vice President, University of Toronto Press, Canada
- Moving a flagship title to S2O – Our experience with Astronomy & Astrophysics
Charlotte Van Rooyen, EDP Sciences, France
Chair: Rod Cookson, IWA Publishing, UK
Thursday 22 September
12 – 1 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 3
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad and OASPA Chair
- Opening up humanities scholarship – Open humanities Data on the Routledge Open Research publishing platform
Rebecca Grant, Head of Data and Software Publishing, F1000, UK - Facilitating media-neutral, XML-first workflows in academic OA-publishing with the Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)
Astrid Hoffmann, University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Scottish Universities Press: Collaborating across Scotland
Dominique Walker, Publishing Officer, Scottish Universities Press / SCURL, UK - The Five Pillars of Open Research in the Arts and Humanities: Opportunities for Cultural Change
Matthias Ammon, Research Support Librarian, Cambridge University Libraries, UK - Mission-Focused: Society Publishers’ Coalition helps progression to OA
Malavika Legge, Program Manager, OASPA & Chair, Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC) - A more equitable model for Open Access? The pilot model of KU Open Opportunities
Elizabeth Demers, Editorial Director, University of Michigan Press and Neil Blair Christensen, Head of Publisher Relations, Knowledge Unlatched - KAMBIUM: A network to make community-driven publishing work
Marcel Wrzesinski Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany - Beyond Open Access: New Workflows for Open Peer Review
Stephanie Dawson ScienceOpen, Germany - Project AuROA – Interests and Perspectives of Stakeholders Involved in the German Arts and Humanities Publishing Process
Anna Klamet, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
1.15 – 2.45 pm
Panel | Has Open Science failed to influence research assessment?
- A university perspective on research and academic assessment
Vinciane Gaillard, European University Association, Belgium
- Open Science implications for research assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Laura Rovelli and Dominique Babini, CLACSO, Argentina
- Open Science in Research Assessment: the Nigerian Perspective
Izuchukwu Azuka Okafor, Reproductive Biology Research Scholar, PAULESI, University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria
- Has research assessment failed to influence Open Science?
Juan Pablo Alperin, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Jean-Emmanuel Faure, Team leader – Research assessment, European Commission, Belgium
Chair: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS, UK
3 – 4.30 pm
Discussion | Changing perspective on knowledge: From marketable asset to common good
- Journals should not be a merchandise; what should they be?
Jean Claude Guedon, University of Montreal, Canada - Open Infrastructure and the Common Good: POSI as practice
Jennifer Lin, Indeed, USA
Chair: Catriona MacCallum, Director of Open Science, Hindawi, UK
4.45 – 6.15 pm
Panel | Pathways to Open Access: Values-based publishing models
- Incentivizing Alignment: Academic Values and Publishing Services
Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute, USA
- In defense of (values-based) BPCs
Francois van Schalkwyk, African Minds/Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Reconfiguring value in Open Book Publishing
Joe Deville, Lancaster University/Open Book Collective, UK
- SciELO pathways from open access to open science
Abel Packer, sciELO, Brazil - Cooperate for Open: A Values-Based Alternative for Open Access Publishing
Anne Brackenbury, Community Convenor, Cooperate for Open Project, Libraria, Toronto, Canada
Chair: Kerry Scott, Univ of California, Santa Cruz Library, USA
6.15 – 6.30 pm
Conference Closing Remarks
Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad and OASPA Chair
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2022 Conference Committee
Arianna Becerril García (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico)
Leslie Chan (Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough)
Jennifer Gibson (Dryad and OASPA Chair)
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)
Carlos Alfredo Joly, (Universidade de Campinas and Editor-in-Chief of Biota Neotropica)
Sushil Kumar (Chitkara University Publications)
Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)
Lucy Oates (Oxford University Press)
Omo Oaiya (West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN))
Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar and Ruđer Bošković Institute)
Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds)