Rethinking Innovative Open Scholarly Outputs: Practice, Recognition, and Impact

2 July 2025, 3pm – 4 pm UK/BST 

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As well as the recording above, please find panelists slides: Allison Levy and Ioana Galleron, along with responses to unanswered questions .
 

OASPA is pleased to announce our next webinar which will explore the landscape of innovative open access publishing formats, especially those that go beyond traditional monographs. We’ll look at their visibility, practical applications, and how they are currently assessed within research evaluation systems. Despite their growing importance, such outputs are often overlooked in traditional academic assessment frameworks. 

Panellists:

• Ioana Galleron – Professor of Digital Humanities at Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle and past Chair of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH). 
• Allison Levy – Director of Brown University Digital Publications and an art historian with a PhD from Bryn Mawr College.
• Frédéric Clavert – Assistant Professor of Contemporary European History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). Managing Editor of the Journal of Digital History.

Chair:

• Magdalena Wnuk – Open Science Officer at Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Together with our three panellists, we hope to explore key questions such as:

• What types of experimental open scholarly outputs are the most popular and used?
• What motivates or discourages researchers from pursuing them?
• What institutional and cultural barriers prevent broader recognition?

• How can academia evolve to better assess and reward innovative scholarly work?

The panellists will each speak and then we will open it up to questions from the audience and discussion.

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Panelist Biographies

Magdalena Wnuk, PhD, head of the Open Humanities Section at CHC IBL PAN, member of the OPERAS-PL Consortium Council, researcher in TRIPLE, OPERAS-Plus, PALOMERA, GRAPHIA, LUMEN, HERIFORGE, SCIROS. For seven years (2013-2019) involved in the non-governmental sector. She conducts interdisciplinary research, combining anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives.

Professor Ioana Galleron received her degree from Sorbonne Université in 2000. She is a member of Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she teaches French Literature and Digital Humanities. She is currently the vice-chancellor for Academic Affairs. Her main research topic is the French comedy in the 17th and 18th centuries, explored both with a close reading perspective and with the help of digital tools and methods. She has published extensively on the topic and participated to several scholarly editions, whether digital or in print; her latest book, Les Comptes de Thalie, has been published in March 2025 at Presses Universitaires de Rennes. At the national level, she is also active in the coordination of AI assisted research in textual studies via the ARIANE consortium (sponsored by HumaNum, a CNRS funded research infrastructure).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioana-galleron-66171737/

Allison Levy is Director of Brown University Digital Publications, a program of distinction based in the University Library’s renowned Center for Digital Scholarship and launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with further support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. BUDP, which provides a novel and intentional university-based approach to digital content development, is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. In her role as director, Levy brings together key organizational, academic, and technological resources to support new forms of faculty-authored scholarship, resulting in pathbreaking, award-winning publications. A hallmark of BUDP under her leadership is the centering of access and inclusion in the practice and production of digital scholarship, as exemplified by the 2022 and 2024 NEH Institutes on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps” (winner of a 2025 EPIC Award for DEIA Initiatives by the Society for Scholarly Publishing) and the IMLS program “Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing” (2023-2026). Levy also spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance the conversation around the development, evaluation, and publication of born-digital scholarship. She currently serves on the Association of University Presses Library Relations Committee and the Renaissance Society of America Digital and Multimedia Committee.
Instagram: allisonmlevy
BlueSky: ‪@allisonlevy.bsky.social‬ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-levy/

Frédéric Clavert is an assistant professor in European Contemporary History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH, University of Luxembourg). He’s the managing editor of the Journal of Digital History.
Website: https://inactinique.net/