You are invited to register for the online Coalition Publica Panel, “All together now: Toward partnerships for Open Access”, happening April 23rd, 2024. Ce texte est aussi disponible en français, ici.
Diamond Open Access publishing is made possible by an intricate ecosystem of valuable stakeholders united by a common goal: to enhance access to scholarly publishing, in part, by reasserting the rightful place of scholars, universities, and libraries within the publication lifecycle.
The prevailing for-profit publishing system has placed libraries and institutions into perennial financial crises. Simultaneously, the growing emphasis on funding open access has tended to focus on its constituent parts: supporting OA publications and / or funding infrastructures that facilitate OA publishing.
Join this session to hear from stakeholders advocating for the collaboration of publishers, infrastructures, and institutions supporting OA publishing. Discover their pursuit of Open Access partnerships that recognize funding each component in isolation as an inadequate solution to the current challenge, while learning about their efforts to establish collective funding approaches.
Event Details
🗓️ Date and time: Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET / 3 PM UTC
🌐 Location: Online via Zoom
🎟️ Tickets: Free via Eventbrite (register here)
🤝 Organizers: Érudit and Public Knowledge Project together as Coalition Publica
Presenters
Moderator: Jessica Clark, Senior Coordinator for Open Access Development, Érudit
Panelists
- Sophie Fotiadi, Coordinator of the Mir@bel Network, Sciences Po Lyon
- Richard Hayman, Associate Professor & Digital Initiatives Librarian, Mount Royal University
- Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis
- Jean-François Lutz, Head of Research support services, Université de Lorraine
- Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer, Edinburgh Diamond
Presenter Bios
Jessica Clark is Senior Coordinator, Open Access Development at Érudit. 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.
Sophie Fotiadi is coordinator of the Mir@bel network, which she founded with two other members in 2009. She co-pilots the network’s open science policy and all partnerships, including those with publishers and national and international infrastructures. Sophie’s involvement in the Mir@bel network (over 300 members) and the operational coordination of its platform enable her to take part in numerous initiatives aimed at promoting open access and the editorial quality of journals.
Richard Hayman (he/him) is an Associate Professor and Digital Initiatives Librarian at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, where he administers the local open ejournal publishing program and the OA publishing fund for authors. As a researcher-practitioner with interests that include open access and scholarly communications, educational technologies, and evidence based practice in academic (library) settings, he is committed to supporting open practices in research and scholarship, and toward finding sustainable and responsive solutions that challenge the limits of traditional publishing models.
Sharla Lair is the Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at Lyrasis. She is particularly interested in better understanding the dynamics around making scholarly publishing more sustainable through explorations in community building, reimagining funding infrastructures for open access content, and facilitating diamond open access capacity building.
Jean-François Lutz is in charge of the Research Support services within the Library of the University of Lorraine. He is particularly interested in the issues of open publishing and of the funding of Open Science initiatives. In relation to the first field, he is co-leader of the Open Scientific Edition expertise group within the French Open Science Committee. He is also a member of the open access expert group within Knowledge Exchange where he co-manages the Task & Finish group on Alternative publishing platforms. In relation to Open Science funding, Jean-Francois Lutz is a member of the Board of the French National Open Science Fund and of SCOSS.
Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Open Access Publishing Officer at the University of Edinburgh, managing Edinburgh Diamond: a library-based publishing service offering support to staff and students publishing Diamond Open Access books and journals. Edinburgh Diamond utilises PKP to offer their publishing service, and is looking at long-term funding models to support Diamond Open Access more broadly.
About Coalition Publica
Coalition Publica is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project to advance research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. Together, we are supporting the social sciences and humanities journal community in the transition towards sustainable open access.
We are developing a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research — combining Open Journal Systems and the erudit.org platform — as well as research investigating the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem.
