OASPA 2023 Conference on Open Scholarship
19 – 21 September 2023
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Recordings
Speaker Biographies | Panel Session Abstracts
Tuesday 19 September
1.45 – 2 pm
Welcome and Conference Opening
- Claire Redhead, Executive Director, OASPA
2 – 3.15 pm
Opening panel discussion and Q&A
A Progress Check on Scholarly Publishing
- Moumita Koley, DST Centre for Policy Research – IISc, India
- Peter Suber, Harvard Library and Harvard Open Access Project, Harvard University, USA
- Thanos Giannakopoulos, United Nations, USA
- Sarah Greaves, Sarah Greaves STEM Consulting Ltd, UK
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Dryad and OASPA Chair
3.30 – 4.45 pm
Panel | Overcoming obstacles in policy development
- Jean-Claude Burgelman, Free University of Brussels (VUB) and Frontiers Policy Lab, Belgium
- Joy Owango, Training Centre in Communication, University of Nairobi, Kenya (SLIDES)
- Ana Persic, UNESCO, Paris
- Shinichi Akaike, Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Cabinet Office, Japan - Nurzatil Sharleeza Mat Jalaluddin, Malaysia Open Science Alliance, Malaysia (SLIDES)
Moderated by Tshiamo Motshegwa, African Open Science Platform (AOSP), NRF, Botswana
5 – 6.00 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 1
- Big Ten Open Books: Consortial Libraries and Presses Sustaining Diamond Open Access Together
Kate McCready, Big Ten Academic Alliance, USA - Seismica: Open science and community building in a new diamond open access journal
Sam Teplitzky, UC Berkeley and Seismica, USA - Link-checking the DOAB database
Eric Hellman Free Ebook Foundation, USA - The Impact on Print Revenues When University Press Book are OA
John Sherer, The University of North Carolina Press Assoc University Presses, USA - Path to Open: A New Business Model for Sustainable and Equitable Open Access Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
John Lenahan, ITHAKA, USA - The Price of Open: A Look at How Library’s Material Budgets Support Open Scholarly Publishing
Hannah McKelvey and Rachelle McLain Montana State University, USA - Towards a Globally Sustainable Open Access Infrastructure: Empowering Developing Countries through Decentralized National-Level Persistent Identifiers
Sergio Santamarina, Universidad Nacional de José C. Paz, Argentina and Carlos Authier, CAICYT – CONICET, Argentina - A Digital Commons for Open Access Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: The Canadian HSS Commons
Graham Jensen and Alyssaa Arbuckle, University of Victoria, Canada - Dispersing the open science fog: let’s make research data more open and funder mandate compliant
Tim Vines, DataSeer.ai, Canada - Usage Statistics, Subscription Management, and ROR in OJS 3.4
Amanda French, Research Organization Registry (ROR) and Crossref, USA - Getting Out From The Back of the Sofa: Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books
Tom Grady and Lucy Barnes, COPIM Open Book Futures, UK
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Dryad and OASPA Chair
Wednesday 20 September
11 – 12.15 pm
Panel | A steady takeover: Exploring the impact of AI on academic publishing
- Danny Kingsley, OAPEN Foundation and Charles Sturt University, Australia SLIDES
- Katherine Malan, University of South Africa and South African Computer Journal, South Africa
- Avi Staiman, Academic Language Experts, Israel
- Joris van Rossum, STM Solutions, The Netherlands
Moderated by Andrea Chiarelli, Research Consulting, UK and Alex Mendonça, SciELO, Brazil
12.30 – 1.45 pm
Panel | Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends
- Johanna Havemann, Access 2 Perspectives, Germany
- Alex Mendonça, SciELO, Brazil
- Aurelia Munene, Eider Africa, Kenya
- Jessica Polka, ASAPbio, USA
- Zhang Zhixiong, ChinaXiv, China
Moderated by Matthew Salter, Akabana Consulting, USA
2 – 3 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 2
- COUNTER Release 5.1: optimised for OA
Tasha Mellins-Cohen, COUNTER, UK - Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing with CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS, and PALOMERA
Ursula Rabar, OA Book Usage Data Trust/OPERAS, Switzerland - The Growth of Library-based Open Access Publishing in Scotland
Rebecca Wojturska, University of Edinburgh, UK - Publish OA – infrastructure for Ireland
Ruth Hegarty, PublishOA.ie, Ireland - The Open Access Journals Toolkit: Broadening participation and supporting diversity in OA journal publishing
Lucia Loffreda, Research Consulting, UK - Exploring regional differences in Open Science adoption using Open Science Indicators
Lauren Cadwallader, PLOS, UK - Thoth Open Metadata – a Community-led Open Metadata Management and Distribution Service for Open Access Books
Toby Steiner, Thoth Open Metadata, UK - Early findings from eLife’s new model of publishing
Alessio Bolognesi, eLife, UK - Transformative agreements and OA uptake across three regions
Ciaran Hoogendoorn, Biochemical Society, UK - Open Research Europe: a publishing partnership for the European Commission
Alicia Estacio Gomez, F1000, UK - A Rubric for Open Access Infrastructure Funding
Yvonne Budden, University of Warwick, UK
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Dryad and OASPA Chair
3.15 – 4.15 pm
Panel | Going Beyond OA: Sustainability – Justice – Resilience
- Jessica Blythe, Brock University, Canada
- Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh
- Zoe Robinson, Institute for Sustainable Futures, Keele University, UK
Chair: Haseeb Md. Irfanullah, Independent Consultant; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
4.30 – 5.45 pm
Panel | Equity and sustainability in Diamond OA publishing
- Rod Cookson, IWA Publishing, UK
- Caroline Edwards, Open Library of the Humanities, UK
- Judith Fathallah, Open Book Collective and Lancaster University, UK
- Sharla Lair, Lyrasis, USA
- Amanda Ramalho, SciELO, Brazil
Moderated by Lucy Barnes, Open Book Publishers, UK
Thursday 21 September
12 – 1 pm
Poster Lightning Talks Session 3
Moderated by Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad and OASPA Chair
- Towards a Taxonomy of Alternative Publishing Platforms
Jeroen Sondervan, Dutch Research Council (NWO), The Netherlands - Forging a path for early career researchers: Open Press and the advancement of open scholarship at Tilburg University
Mor Lumbroso, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Croatian Initiative for Open Scholarly Books
Iva Melinščak Zlodi, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Research Citations Building Trust in Wikipedia
Kath Burton, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, UK - B!SON – an open tool to help researchers find suitable journals for their manuscript
Anita Eppelin, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Germany - Towards a national diamond open access strategy for tertiary vocational education in Aotearoa New Zealand
James Savage, Te Pūkenga — New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, New Zealand - Book Usage Data Trust for Scholarly Publishing
Ursula Rabar, OA Book Usage Data Trust, Switzerland - Open access in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a snapshot of the landscape in 2022
Janet Catterall, Open Access Australasia (OAA), Australia - Targeted Data Publishing to Increase Quantity, Openness, and Accessibility of Critically Important Public Health Data
Scott Edmunds, GigaScience Press, Hong Kong - Data and Software Peer Review in Open Scholarly Publishing
Saba Sharma, TU Delft, The Netherlands - Answering the Call: How to Create a Not-For-Profit Publishing Platform
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting, UK
1.15 – 2.30 pm
Panel | Mission-driven publishers’ transition models examined (SLIDES)
- Wyatt Reynolds, ACM, USA
- Caroline Edwards, Open Library of the Humanities, UK
- Nathaniel Gore, PeerJ, USA (SLIDES)
- Charlotte Van Rooyen, EDP Sciences, France
Chair: Chris Pym, American Chemical Society, UK
2.45 – 4 pm
Panel | Transforming research integrity: the growing potential of open science practices
- Clarissa F. D. Carneiro, BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Germany
- Roohi Ghosh, CACTUS, India
- Matt Hodgkinson, UKRIO, UK
- Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi, UK
Chair: Andrea Chiarelli, Research Consulting, UK
4.15 – 4.45 pm
OASPA Equity in OA 2023 Workshops Feedback
Malavika Legge, OASPA, UK
Introduced by Bernie Folan, OASPA, UK
4.45 – 5 pm
Conference Closing Remarks
Jennifer Gibson, Dryad and OASPA Chair
Speaker Biographies | Panel Session Abstracts
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2023 Conference Program Committee
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Lucy Barnes (OpenBook Publishers)
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Sara Bosshart (Royal Society of Chemistry)
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Andrea Chiarelli (Research Consulting)
- Kazuhiro Hayashi, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
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Haseeb Md Irfanullah (Independent Consultant, Bangladesh)
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Alex Mendonça (SciELO)
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Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)
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Tshiamo Motshegwa (African Open Science Platform (AOSP), NRF)
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Lucy Oates (Oxford University Press)
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Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar and Ruđer Bošković Institute)
- Elaine Tham (PLOS)