Webinar: What do we mean by quality in open access publishing?

Play Video

6 February 2025 3pm – 4.15pm GMT/UTC

Other time zones: Time Zone Convertor 

 


 

OASPA is pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, which will focus on quality in open access (OA) publishing. What do researchers expect from OA journals and what do OA journals offer? Are there any regional differences in the perception of publication quality?

During this webinar we will hear from researchers and journal editors from East and North Africa, a librarian from Southeast Europe and digital publishing and dissemination service from North America. Efforts to establish sets of criteria that OA publishers need to meet in order to ensure equitable, transparent, and high-quality OA publishing will be presented. We will also discuss how libraries and other scholarly communication actors could contribute to the evidence-based notion of quality in scholarly publishing.

The webinar will be chaired by Iryna Kuchma of EIFL. We welcome our panelists: Kamel Belhamel, Milica Ševkušić, Jessica Dallaire-Clark and Tom Kwanya.

The panellists will each speak for a few minutes, and then we will open it up to questions from the audience and discussion.

Please share with all those you think may be interested.

Please note that views expressed in OASPA webinars are those of the individual speakers and do not represent the view of OASPA.


Panelist Biographies

Kamel Belhamel is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bejaia in Algeria.

He is author/co-author of several scientific papers in international scientific journals (ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9099-8040). His scientific activities are focused on the chemistry of Natural Products, open educational resources and open science. Kamel Belhamel is a founder and editor in chief of the Algerian Journal of Natural Products (E-ISSN: 2353-0391: http://univ-bejaia.dz/ajnp) and the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) managing editor and ambassador for North Africa and Middle East Countries: https://doaj.org/about/team/. He is recognized as a leading advocate for open access in North Africa.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamel-belhamel-41222a121/


Jessica Dallaire-Clark is Senior Coordinator, Open Access Development at Érudit, Canada.

Most recently, she was the Project Coordinator of Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project to advance research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. While her current work focuses on journal publishing, her background is in scholarly book publishing, with previous positions at the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) and the University of Ottawa Press. Open Access has been a common aspect of all her professional work to date.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-dallaire-clark/
Facebook: @erudit.org – https://www.facebook.com/erudit.org
Instagram: @eruditorg – https://www.instagram.com/eruditorg/
X :@eruditorg – https://x.com/eruditorg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3628951/


Tom Kwanya is a Professor in the Department of Information and Knowledge Management at the Technical University of Kenya.

He is currently also serving as the Director of the School of Information and Social Studies. Prior to joining academics fulltime in 2013, he worked as a consultant on public information and knowledge management. Prof. Kwanya is a published author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, two university-level books, several conference papers and four edited books. He has also supervised and examined several postgraduate dissertations and theses. He has served as an external examiner of information science in six universities in Kenya. He sits on the National Technical Committee on Knowledge Management, Kenya, and the Information Science Services Technical Committee of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). Prof. Kwanya is also an Editor-in-Chief of the Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (RJOKM). 
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6306-2669
Skype: tom.kwanya
Twitter: @tkwanya


Milica Ševkušić is a librarian at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art and EIFL Open Access Programme coordinator

In the capacity of the EIFL-Open Access Programme Country Coordinator she has been supporting Open Access journals in Serbia since 2014. Her professional interests focus on Open Science, library services aimed at supporting research activities, training in academic services and tools, support to Open Access journals, information literacy and research ethics. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-6611
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/milica-%C5%A1evku%C5%A1i%C4%87-26734375
Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@lessormore


Chair

Iryna Kuchma is the Open Access Programme Manager at EIFL.

Working in collaboration with libraries and library consortia in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, she advocates for open access to research results, facilitates the development and implementation of open science policies and infrastructures, and provides support and training.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irynakuchma/


Become a Member

  • Learn about new open scholarship developments
  • Strengthen your organisation
  • Contribute to OASPA’s direction
  • Advocate for open scholarship