OASPA 2023 Conference Program

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 
• 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   

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
• 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

• Wyatt Reynolds, ACM, USA
• Caroline Edwards, Open Library of the Humanities, UK 
• Nathaniel Gore, PeerJ, USA 
• 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

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2023 Conference Program Committee

• Lucy Barnes (OpenBook Publishers)
• Sara Bosshart (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Andrea Chiarelli (Research Consulting)
• Kazuhiro Hayashi, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
• Haseeb Md Irfanullah (Independent Consultant, Bangladesh)
• Alex Mendonça (SciELO)
• Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)
• Tshiamo Motshegwa (African Open Science Platform (AOSP), NRF)
• Lucy Oates (Oxford University Press)
• Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar and Ruđer Bošković Institute)
• Elaine Tham (PLOS)