Wayfinders #4: a deep-dive into S2O / Subscribe to Open

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Date: November 6 2024

Time: 4 – 5pm GMT (4pm UTC, 12pm EST)

OASPA is pleased to announce our next Wayfinders online seminar.

OASPA’s wayfinders #4 will be a probing conversation about OA via Subscribe to Open (S2O). Five years on from when Annual Reviews first pioneered it, we will dissect and discuss: Is S2O a viable and maturing route to inclusive OA, or is it still too fragile a concept to take root? Bring your questions to this discussion that will interrogate and inform thinking about S2O. 

The seminar will be chaired by OASPA’s Malavika Legge

We welcome our panelists:

• Richard Gallager who will present The news from Annual Reviews: originators of the S2O route.

• Anne Ruimy will cover EDP’s views & transparent reporting as bedrock for S2O in mathematics

• Wendy Queen will conclude on Project Muse – an infrastructure umbrella ‘opening’ humanities content from over 20 publishers

As background, we recommend watching ~16 minutes of this video from OASPA’s annual conference in September 2024: a presentation by Christina Lembrecht about DeGruyter’s S2O journey as a case study of S2O at scale. 

We hope you will join us live at 4pm UK time on 6 Nov 2024 for this interactive discussion.

OASPA’s online seminars are free to attend and open to all. 

Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/registration-nov24

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Biographies

Chair

Malavika Legge, OASPA 

Malavika is OASPA’s Program Manager, leading projects that support OASPA’s mission. She is author of the OASPA series on Equity in OA and creator of the wayfinder sessions. She previously led an open-science agenda as Publishing Director at the Biochemical Society, and during this time was also elected to the first Council of the Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC) in 2019, going on to serve as its Chair from 2020 to 2023. Starting her publishing career at Informa Healthcare, she has a breadth of editorial, publishing technology, sales and licensing experience. Malavika dreams of a world where scholarly publishing is open access publishing – by default, for everyone. 

Panelists

Anne Ruimy, EDP Science 

Anne Ruimy has a PhD in Ecology and 15 years of experience in the publishing industry, as journal manager, publisher, and project manager specializing in data journals. She joined EDP Sciences in 2018 and was appointed Publishing Director, Journals, in 2023, overseeing a portfolio of approximately 70 academic journals. She is leading the sustainable transition of the entire portfolio of journals to open access under different models, with a particular focus on Subscribe to Open and Diamond OA. She also initiated several open science initiatives at EDP Sciences. Finally, she coordinates a program of science publishing masterclasses, training PhD students and young researchers in all aspects of scientific writing, reviewing and publishing, including open access and open science.

Richard Gallagher, Annual Reviews

Richard Gallagher is President & Editor-in-Chief of Annual Reviews, a California-based open access nonprofit publisher that specializes in the synthesis and integration of knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. Richard has a PhD in immunology from Glasgow University, Scotland, and worked for 10 years as a researcher at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Since moving to publishing, he held editorial and management positions at Science and at Nature. He joined Annual Reviews in 2015, where he has launched new journals, helped introduce Subscribe to Open, developed Knowable Magazine and led the purchase of the Charleston Conference.

Wendy Queen, Project MUSE

Wendy Queen is the Director, Project MUSE which is a division of Johns Hopkins University Press. MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. Currently, Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and over 100,000 books from some 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. Wendy serves on numerous boards and committees including AUPresses and Hopkins Scholarly Communications Committee. 

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