Home - Webinar: Practical Applications of Open Infrastructure Tools for Scholarly Communication
Feb 20, 2025 3pm – 4.15 pm GMT/UTC
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OASPA is pleased to announce our forthcoming online seminar which will focus on three emerging open infrastructure tools and platforms: OpenCitations, OpenAlex, and Thoth Open Metadata. Free and equitable access to scholarly research is not only predicated on its open access nature, but also on the scholarly communications infrastructures through which this research is disseminated and made discoverable. Grounded in the Open Science principles, the speakers will showcase how open infrastructure, with regard to bibliographic information, knowledge graphs, and book metadata, contributes to fostering a more transparent and equitable research landscape and how publishers and others can use their services.
Each of our three speakers will give a 15-minute overview of the service they provide, and how it can improve research workflows, research data management, and discoverability:
Chaired by Catriona MacCallum, we will then open it up to questions from the audience and discussion.
Please join us live for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion.
Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/registration-feb20-2025
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Silvio Peroni holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna. He is also the Director of OpenCitations, a founding member of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), and the University of Bologna representative for the Barcelona Declaration.
His works concern theoretical studies and technical implementation of tools to foster semantic interoperability of Open Science services and infrastructures, the empirical analysis of the nature of scholarly citations, bibliometrics and scientometrics studies, visualisation and browsing interfaces for semantic data, and the development of ontologies to manage, integrate and query bibliographic information and cultural heritage data.
X: @essepuntato
Mastodon: @essepuntato@scholar.social
BlueSky: @essepuntato@bsky.social
Jason Priem is the CEO of OurResearch, a nonprofit making software for open science. As a PhD student, Jason founded the field of altmetrics, which studies indicators of research impact beyond citation counts. He then co-founded OurResearch, where he helped create Unpaywall, an open-access discovery tool that now serves millions of users daily. More recently, OurResearch has created OpenAlex, a global index of research and researchers. As an advocate and analyst for open science, Jason has authored dozens of papers and delivered invited presentations around the world, including at the White House, US National Academy of Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, United Nations, and the European Commission.
X: @jasonpriem
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-priem-60aaab52/
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is founding director and CEO of Thoth Open Metadata, a platform for the management and dissemination of high-quality metadata under an open license. He is also director of scholar-led open access press punctum books. More information on http://www.vangervenoei.com/.
Catriona J MacCallum is Director, the Future of Scholarly Research, at Wiley. She has 26 years experience in scholarly publishing, including 21 years in Open Access Publishing. She joined PLOS from Elsevier in 2003 to launch PLOS Biology as a Senior Editor. She worked in a variety of roles, including on PLOS ONE and left as Advocacy Director in 2017 to become Director of Open Science at Hindawi, which was subsequently acquired by Wiley. She is a member of the Board of OpenCitations, and a past member of the OASPA Board, the DORA steering committee, the DRYAD Board and the Advisory Board of the Royal Society (Publishing). She is a founding individual of the I4OC (Initiative for Open Citations) and I4OA (Open Abstracts) campaigns. She was a member of the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform (2017-2020). She has a PhD in population genetics from Edinburgh University.
X: @catmacoA
Blue Sky: @catmacoa.bsky.social
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