OASPA 2024 Conference Programme

OASPA 2024 Conference Programme

16 – 18 September 2024 in Lisbon

Altis Grand Hotel, R. Castilho 11, 1269-072 Lisboa, Portugal

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Programme

Monday September 16

12.15 – 1.15 pm Registration

1.20 – 1.40 pm Conference Opening and Welcome

• Claire Redhead / Bernie Folan, OASPA
• Professor Delfim Leão, University of Coimbra

1.45 – 3 pm Opening Discussion: Who cares about equity? How different stakeholders of the open access scholarly publishing landscape approach equity

• Vanessa Proudman, SPARC Europe
• Joy Owango, Training Centre in Communication, University of Nairobi
• Silke Davison, OAPEN, DOAB and OA Books Network (OABN)
• Durhane Wong-Rieger, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders
• Moderator: Agata Morka, PLOS

3.05 – 3.35 pm Poster Lightning Talks

• OA Book Usage Data for Policy Development – Christine Drummond, OA Book Usage Data Trust
• Pride, Prejudice, Zombies, and Research Integrity: Embracing Proactive Solutions in the Scholarly Publishing Landscape – Anna Jester, Wiley USA and Sam Parker, Wiley UK
• Upholding research integrity: Why open and curated data are key for trustworthy research – Maria Guerreiro, Dryad
• In a multi-platform, multi-version world, how can we ensure the researcher is accessing trusted open content – Hylke Koers, GetFTR LLC
• Can scaling small scale? Lessons learned from building community-led infrastructures for open access book publishing -Joe Deville, Lancaster University / Open Book Collective / Mattering Press

3.35 – 4.05 pm Coffee Break

4.10 – 5.25 pm Panel:  Show me the money: decoupling OA from per-publication journal charges

• Christina Lembrecht, De Gruyter-Brill
• Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library, University of California, USA
• Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town
• Moderator: Heather Staines, DeltaThink

5.30 – 6.15 pm Keynote: Supporting multiple routes to open access

• Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance

6.30 – 8 pm Reception | Mezzanine, Altis Grand Hotel

Tuesday September 17

8.30-9 am Welcome Coffee

9.05 – 9.50 am Keynote: Open Access: let’s walk the talk

• Devika Madalli, INFLIBNET and OA India Forum

9.55 – 10.30 am Poster Lightning Talks

• The Path to Open Community Advisory Committee: A Case Study in Cross-Sector Collaboration – Sarah McKee, American Council of Learned Societies, USA
• Towards a Collaborative Approach to Peer Review: Exploring Alternative Models for Transparent and Inclusive Scholarly Evaluation – Lorela Mehmeti, Knowledge Futures
• Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review – Tony Alves, HighWire
• Centre Mersenne : diamond open access scientific publishing infrastructure – Murielle Serlet, CNRS
• Brown University Digital Publications: A Scholarship-First Approach to Born-Digital Multimodal Publishing – Allison Levy, Brown University
• Bringing Researchers Aboard: navigating barriers to sharing data publicly  – Daniel Keirs, IOP Publishing

10.30 – 11.10 am  Coffee Break

11.15 am – 12.30pm  Panel: Open Access and Precarity in the Academic Landscape: Learning from the Experiences of Authors and Scholar-led Publishers

• Judith Fathallah, Coventry University / Lancaster University / Open Book Collective
• Joe Deville, Lancaster University / Open Book Collective / Mattering Press
• Nonhlanhla (Noni) Dube, Lancaster University/SWAN, the Southern Women Academics Network
• Moderator: Caroline Edwards, Open Library of the Humanities / Birkbeck University

12.30 – 1 pm  OASPA Members and Supporters Meeting

1 – 2 pm  Lunch

2.05 – 3.05 pm  Panel: Improving Technical Standards and Practices for Diamond OA: Lessons Learned from the CRAFT-OA Project

• Clara Armengou, DOAJ
• Maxim Kupreyev, OPERAS
• Xenia van Edig, TIB
• Moderator: Joanna Ball, DOAJ

3.10 – 4.10 pm  Panel: Openness and robust scholarship in the age of generative AI

• Haseeb Irfanullah, Independent consultant
• Elena Vicario, Frontiers
• Oleksandr Berezko, European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (EURODOC)
• Moderator: Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing

4.10 – 4.40 pm Coffee Break

4.45 – 6.00 pm Panel: Assessing Real-World ROI: Tracing the Value of Open Access Publishing

• Tasha Mellins-Cohen, COUNTER
• Blessing Mawire, Research4Life and CLIR
• Rhodri Jackson, Oxford University Press
• Manisha Bolina, BMJ Impact Analytics
• Moderator: Hannah Heckner-Swain, Silverchair

6.30 – 8 pm  Reception |  Estufa Fria

Wednesday September 18

8.30 – 9 am  Welcome Coffee

9.05 – 9.45 am  Keynote: Open Access as a Tool for Collective Climate Action 

• Rebecca Ross, Creative Commons

9.50 – 11.05 am  Panel: Building Equity in Open Access: Tools, Frameworks, Recommended Practices

• Lorraine Estelle, Information Power
• Robert Kiley, cOAlition S
• Malavika Legge, OASPA
• Omo Oaiya, WACREN
• Moderator: Godwyns Onwuchekwa, eLife

11.10 – 11.40  Coffee Break

11.45 am – 1 pm Panel: All impact, no factor? How to assess the benefits of OA books and infrastructure

• Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Thoth & punctum books
• Kelsey Mrjoian, Michigan Publishing & University of Michigan Press
• Niels Stern, OAPEN/DOAB & PALOMERA project
• Christina Drummond, Open Access eBook Usage Data Trust
• Moderator: Sofie Wennström, Stockholm University Press 

1.05 – 2.15 pm  Lunch

2.20 – 3.35 pm  Panel: Addressing Integrity and Building Trust in Open Scholarly Publishing

• John Willinsky, Stanford University
• Joris van Rossum, STM Solutions  
• Jonny Coates, ASAPbio
• Marzia Briel, University of Reading
• Moderator: Alex Mendonca, SciElo 

3.40 – 4 pm  Closing Remarks 

• Dominic Mitchell (OASPA Chair and DOAJ) and Claire Redhead, OASPA

General information about the conference can be found at our conference page.

Any enquiries regarding the conference should be directed to conference@oaspa.org. 

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The Altis Grand Hotel has reserved a limited number of rooms for delegates. You can use this preferential rate to book.

Sponsorship Opportunities 

We welcome expressions of interest in sponsorship. Sponsorship is crucial for us to be able to hold the event. Email bernie.folan@oaspa.org for information. Opportunities can be found here.

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