The 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum | The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions
Important Dates
- Registration end dateOct 22, 2020
Meet Our Speakers
Ms. Shelley Allen
Emerald Publishing, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom - https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/about;
Shelley Allen joined Emerald Publishing in March 2019 as Head of Open Research. With 17 years’ experience within academic publishing, working in mostly editorial roles across a range of subject disciplines, Shelley is passionate about driving change and ensuring real impact for the communities Emerald serves. Shelley has a keen interest in open science, particularly exploring ways to translate research for new audiences as well as leveraging the wider impact “Open” can have, including bringing new and diverse voices into the research landscape.
Mr. Lars Bjørnshauge
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Copenhagen, Denmark - https://doaj.org/about#board;
Lars Bjørnshauge was Director of Libraries at Lund University from 2001 to 2011 and founded the DOAJ in 2003. He became Managing Director of DOAJ in January 2013. He has vast experience in: change management; the re-engineering of academic libraries; the development of information services for research & higher education. He has been a strong advocate of open access and for providing services to the open access movement (open access to research publications). He is co-founder of OpenDOAR and the Directory of Open Access Books.
Ms. Yvonne Campfens
OA Switchboard (OASPA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands - https://www.oaswitchboard.org/;
Yvonne Campfens is a consultant with over 25 years in publishing and related service sectors, with a Masters in applied econometrics from University of Amsterdam (1993). Early in her career she held a publishing position at Elsevier Science and thereafter various positions at Swets Subscription Service, including in publisher relations and as business partner to ALPSP in managing the ALJC (ALPSP Learned Journals Collection). From 2007 – 2012 she led the on-boarding of learned society publishing partners at Springer Nature, and was a co-founder of the TRANSFER Code of Practice. After running the Dutch language educational/professional business at Springer Media for three years as Managing Director, she returned to the international research group of the newly merged company (Springer Nature) in 2015, where she worked across all Springer Nature Research divisions. In 2018 she started her own consultancy business and since the beginning of this year she is project manager for the OA Switchboard, an initiative overseen by Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).
Dr. Saskia C. J. de Vries
Sampan - academia and publishing, Leiden, The Netherlands - http://www.sampan.eu/;
Saskia de Vries soon joined HES Publishers in Utrecht as a jack of all trades. In 1985, she switched to Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. In the 20 years that she ran Amsterdam University Press as its first director. It grew into an international, academic publisher with 20 employees in 2012 who were responsible for the approximately 200 books and 9 academic journals that they published a year. Amsterdam University Press was coordinator of the EU project Open Access Publishing in European Networks and grew into one of the most innovative university presses in the world, that gives high priority to Open Access publishing. In 2006 she was co-founder and first director of Leiden University Press, which functions as part of the University of Leyden since 2009. Saskia started her own business in 2012, Sampan – academia & publishing, where she works on various projects.
Mr. Quentin Dufour
The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), Paris, France - http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/en/people/post-doc-en/quentin-dufour/;
Quentin Dufour defended a PhD thesis in sociology on the making of the French GDP, the main representation of the national economy, in November 2019. At the crossroads of the sociology of quantification, the sociology of activity, and Science Studies, the thesis questions the role of quantification in the production and stabilization of a representation of the French economy. Based on a nine-month ethnographic survey within the National Accounts Department of INSEE, it shows that, far from being the result of an automatic calculation, our knowledge of the economy is based on a complex organization, and involves an interpretative work called “arbitrage” during which figures are questioned, evaluated, and sometimes modified. The representation of the economy derives its overall coherence, in time and space, from this work of arbitration.
Since February 2020, Quentin Dufour holds a postdoctoral position at the CSI and is part of the research project “Socio-Economy of Scientific Publication”, which focuses on the transformation of scientific journal publication models in the era of open access. He is particularly interested in how major historical publishers and users of scientific publishing (such as university libraries) are negotiating the transition from a traditional publishing model (where access to journals requires a subscription) to different open access models (where tariff barriers to access the journal are removed). The survey is based on the exploration and analysis of public documents, including recent “big deals” signed in different European countries between publishers operating on the scientific publishing market and national institutions in charge of negotiating access to journals.
Ms. Christina Drummond
Educopia Institute, Powell, OH, United States - https://educopia.org/christina-drummond/;
Christina currently serves as the Data Trust Program Officer for the OA eBook Usage Data Trust project having previously served as Educopia’s Director of Strategic Initiatives (2015-2017). Affiliated with Educopia since 2012, Christina has worked to develop capacity-building resources for Educopia’s affiliated communities while managing efforts relating to digital preservation, cultural heritage workforce and leadership development, and data analytics.
Now a senior leader experienced in developing data policy, strategic partnerships and extramural funding, Christina began her career working in software as a service development pertaining to back-office supply-chain logistics, government e-records management, enterprise technology planning, and nonprofit capacity-building. Christina is certified in Design Thinking by IDEO and as an Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She holds an M.A. in International Science and Technology Policy from George Washington University, a Certificate in International Business from the University of Washington, and a data-analytics focused B.S. with Honors in Criminal Justice and Psychology from The Ohio State University.
She currently serves as Co-Chair for the Professionalizing Data Stewardship Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance, sits on the Advisory Board for the Association of Rural and Small Library Leadership Institute, and serves on the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission’s Data Policy Needs Survey and Toolkit working group.
Mr. Fabian Felder
Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, Zurich, Switzerland - https://consortium.ch/ueber-uns/?lang=en;
Dr. Simon Geiger
Basel University Library, Switzerland - https://ub.unibas.ch/en/persons/simon-geiger/;
In 1978 Simon Geiger began studying chemistry at University of Basel, where he earned his MA in chemistry in 1982 and received his PhD on nanostructured fluids in 1986. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden 1987-1988. In 1989 he joined University Library Basel to take the responsibility for the collections and services in the natural sciences. In 1997 he established the cooperative acquisition of electronic journals and databases in a network of Swiss university libraries. He represents the University of Basel at the Consortium of Swiss Acacemic Libraries.
Ms. Juliet Harrison
Emerald Publishing, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom - https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/about;
Juliet Harrison is Head of Business, Management and Economics Publishing at Emerald Publishing Ltd. Her role involves managing a team of Publishers and Commissioning Editors working within the fields of Business, Management and Economics (including Operations and Logistics), Juliet is responsible for developing the strategy for the growth of Emerald's Journals, Books and Cases content. Previous to this, Juliet worked as an Executive Publisher for Emerald's Social Sciences journals programme and has worked within the field of academic publishing for over 10 years.
Mr. Steven Inchcoombe
Springer Nature, London, United Kingdom - https://group.springernature.com/fr/group/about-us/executive-team;
Steven Inchcoombe read Physics at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC. From 1990 to 2000, Steven was at Interactive Data Corporation, where he ultimately became responsible for strategy, M&A and the EMEA region, and during this period the business became listed on NASDAQ. He then moved on to Board positions with the Financial Times Group, including UK Publisher of the Financial Times and Managing Director of ft.com.
Steven joined the Macmillan Board in 2006. From 2007 to 2013, he led the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), and in 2013 became CEO of Macmillan’s Science and Scholarly division, comprising NPG, Scientific American and Palgrave Macmillan. Following the creation of Springer Nature in May 2015 he was appointed Managing Director of its Nature Research Group and most recently promoted to Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in March 2016.
Mr. Robert Kiley
Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom - https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/open-research;
Robert Kiley is Head of Open Research at Wellcome where he is responsible for developing and implementing Wellcomes’s open research strategy. Over the past decade Robert has played a leading role in the implementation of Wellcome’s open access policy. He has also been responsible for initiating the development of eLife, the online journal developed in partnership with HHMI and the Max Planck Society and Wellcome’s OA repository, Europe PubMed Central repository. Most recently Robert championed the development of Wellcome’s own publishing platform – Wellcome Open Research – which is fast becoming the most used publication venue for Wellcome funded research articles. Since March 2019, he has also assumed the role as cOAlition S Coordinator. Robert is a qualified librarian and is a member of the Board of Directors for ORCID.
Dr. Bastien Latard
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland - https://www.mdpi.com/about/team;
Bastien holds a Bachelor in Electronic, Electric and Data Processing and a Master in Automatic and Industrial Data Processing. Bastien joined MDPI in February 2013 and developed scilit.net. After working for three years on several internal projects, he went back to university to complete his studies and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences in October 2019. The goal of his PhD was to semantically link scientific articles together by using Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence techniques. After completing his PhD, Bastien launched the R&D department which develops and applies other text mining approaches to scientific articles.
Ms. Sabine Louët
SciencePOD, Dublin, Ireland - https://www.sciencepod.net/about-us;
Sabine is a media entrepreneur, science communicator, journalist and editor with a keen interest in using technology to deliver improved editorial solutions and a vast international experience working across Europe, the USA and Asia. Sabine’s career in science and technology publishing spans 20 years, and she has previously worked for international science publishing houses such as the Nature Publishing Group (now part of Springer Nature) and strategic pharma intelligence publishing house Windhover (now Informa). She speaks French, English, German and a little Spanish.
Dr. Evgeniya Lupova-Henry
Decentralized Science, Madrid, Spain - https://decentralized.science/;
Evgeniya is a researcher and consultant who has collaborated with both public and private regional development organisations worldwide. She has produced reports, research articles and white papers investigating the best regional practices of innovation promotion, academia-industry-government collaboration, SME support programmes, the governance of sustainable innovation and that of creative clusters. She has collaborated as Researcher and/or Lecturer with such organisations as Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Canberra Innovation Network (Australia), the Moscow State University (Russia) and National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’ (Russia) under the mandate of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Dr. Paolo Manghi
CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE, Toscana, Italy - https://www.openaire.eu/73-management-team/39;
Paolo Manghi is Researcher at CNR-ISTI since 2006, member of the InfraScience research group. His research focuses on data models for Digital Library Management Systems, data curation in digital libraries, and autonomic service-oriented data infrastructures, with special care to the realization and technological transfer of open source software. He is author of several research papers in such fields. Moreover, he has participated and coordinated the research and technical activities of several EC projects, such as DRIVER, DRIVER-II, OpenAIRE, OpenAIREplus, HOPE, EFG, and several others whose focus was on the realization of aggregative data infrastructures for scientific communication and science. He is currently coordinating research and development activities supporting the production data infrastructures for the OpenAIRE2020 project, SoBigData.eu project, and the EAGLE project. Finally, he is conceiver and designer of the D-NET Software Toolkit, a framework for the construction of autonomic and sustainable aggregative data infrastructures.
Ms. Delia Mihaila
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland - https://www.mdpi.com/about/team;
Delia Mihaila joined MDPI in March 2013. She previously held the positions of Managing Editor, Publishing Development Manager, and Publishing Director within MDPI. Delia held the CEO position within MDPI previously, from February 2015 to April 2016. She holds a Master of Arts in International Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. Before joining MDPI she worked as Journal Publishing Manager for John Wiley & Sons in the UK, where she was responsible for the strategic development and performance of a large portfolio of journals within the health sciences division. Before obtaining her Master’s degree in the UK, she worked as Business Development Manager for a medical publisher in Romania and acquired project management experience being involved in several PHARE European projects.
Dr. Claire Moulton
The Company of Biologists, Cambridge, United Kingdom - https://www.biologists.com/publishing-partnerships/;
Claire Moulton is the Publisher at The Company of Biologists, where she is responsible for the company’s journal and digital content strategy. The Company of Biologists was the first publisher to be afforded Transformative Journal status by Plan S, following on from their early adoption of Read & Publish agreements and transparent metrics. Another focus has been building community sites including preLights, an early-career initiative around preprint commenting. Previously, Claire worked for Elsevier, where she was responsible for the Current Opinion and Trends journals. She has a background in molecular and developmental biology.
Mr. Pierre Mounier
OPERAS, Paris, France - http://pierremounier.net/;
Pierre Mounier supports cooperation between the OPERAS partners and establishes the strategic roadmap of the infrastructure. He is trained in classical studies and social anthropology. He is working at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is deputy director of OpenEdition, the French national infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the SSH. He regularly publishes on digital humanities and open science topics, and more largely the social and political impact of ICT.
Ms. Robyn Mugridge
Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland - https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/551477/overview;
Based in Frontiers' London office, Robyn joined Frontiers as a Journal Development Manager for Frontiers in Psychiatry and previously worked for a number of international publishers. She is now the Publishing Partnerships Manager at Frontiers and her work focuses on collaborations with societies, funders and other organisations.
Dr. Kamran Naim
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland - http://library.cern/about_us/who;
Dedicated to promoting equality, Dr. Naim has devoted 15 years to increase global access to scientific information. Together with the White House and the Department of State, Dr. Naim has launched scientific programs in vulnerable Middle Eastern and African communities. He has also partnered with USAID, The World Bank, and numerous foreign governments to design and implement projects that empower local communities, advance global health, and lay the foundation for socioeconomic equality. Most recently, he was the Director of Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews, a nonprofit research publisher where he worked to design and implement a sustainable model for transforming the organization’s journals to open access. In his academic career at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education he explores new mechanisms and business models to expand equitable global access to scientific information, and as an educator has designed curricula in information literacy and instructed a number of classes at the intersection of science, technology and public policy. As an advisor to TeachAids, he supports research and teaching efforts for both HIV and Concussion initiatives. He also serves as Executive Director at Network for Information and Digital Access (NIDA) to provide support to NGO focused on democratizing public access to information and services in partnership with thought leaders from many countries. Since November 2019, Kamran Naim is Head of Open Science for CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He leads a portfolio of activities that aim to set the standards of the future open science ecosystem. Kamran holds a PhD from Stanford University on Cooperative Models to support open access publishing.
Mr. Brian O’Leary
Book Industry Study Group, New York, NY, United States - https://bisg.org/page/Staff;
Brian O'Leary is executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a trade association that solves problems affecting two or more parts of the publishing supply chain. BISG membership represents the entire publishing industry, from publishers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and libraries to printers, suppliers, service providers and more. BISG maintains several standing committees and working groups that meet to review, discuss and resolve problems raised by members and the industry as a whole.
Prior to joining BISG, he was principal of Magellan Media, a consulting firm that worked with book, magazine, and association publishers to improve the effectiveness of their content workflows. During that time, he wrote and spoke extensively about issues affecting the publishing industry. In addition to a blog, his work included ""Book: A Futurist's Manifesto"", a collection of forward-looking essays on publishing that he co-edited with Hugh McGuire.
While at Magellan, he studied and reported on: the use of metadata in the book industry supply chain; territorial rights in the digital age; and best practices in digital exports. He also studied the impact of free content and digital piracy on paid book sales, and he edited a review of the use of XML in book publishing.
Before founding Magellan Media, Brian served as senior VP and associate publisher with Hammond Inc., where he restructured editorial operations to benefit from the firm’s prior technology investments. He came to Hammond after a 12-year career overseeing production and distribution operations at several of Time Inc.’s weekly magazines, including Time, Entertainment Weekly and People. He joined Time Inc. after earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Brian also hold an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard College.
Mr. Dario Picecchi
cognitio - studentisches Forum für Recht und Gesellschaft, Lucernce, Switzerland - https://www.cognitio-zeitschrift.ch/redaktion;
Dario Picecchi is co-founder and member of the editorial board of the journal "cognitio – studentisches Forum für Recht und Gesellschaft''. Cognitio is a student law journal with the goal of promoting early academic work and comprehensive publication processes including peer review procedures. Dario Picecchi studied law at the University of Lucerne and at the University of Notre Dame (USA). Since 2017 he has been a doctoral candidate and research assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Bernhard Rütsche (Chair of Public Law and Philosophy of Law, University of Lucerne).
Mr. Dirk Pieper
Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany - https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=132436&lang=en;
Dirk Pieper is Deputy Director at Bielefeld University Library and responsible for projects and innovation. He is also a member of several national and international boards and initiatives like “Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges” (ESAC) and the “EBSCO European Academic Advisory Board”. From 2004-2014 he was the Head of Media Department at Bielefeld UL. He holds a degree in political science and economics from Universität Hamburg and has been involved in several Open Access projects.
Mr. Daniel Pollock
Delta Think, London, United Kingdom - https://deltathink.com/core-team/daniel-pollock/;
Dan Pollock is Chief Digital Officer of Delta Think, based in London, UK. His strength lies in helping publishing companies successfully explore and exploit new digital opportunities, through his combination of commercial expertise and technical understanding. Over the last 20 years, Dan has specialized in digital publishing strategy and product innovation for companies primarily in STM and Legal publishing. He has held executive leadership and strategic advisory roles, and senior positions managing products, operations and change in organizations ranging from dot-coms to complex corporates. His expertise includes the establishment of new business units and product management functions in large organizations, handling digital extensions to flagship brands, the implementation of analytics and social media practice and policies, business and price modeling, interfacing between business and technology functions, and strategic advisory services. Most recently, prior to joining our team, Dan was part of the leadership team of Jordan Publishing Ltd through its successful sale to LexisNexis (RELX). He has previously worked for Macmillan Publishers (Nature Publishing Group), Outsell Inc., RELX (Elsevier Health Sciences, LexisNexis), Times Mirror International Publishers. His early career was in software engineering, specializing in publishing solutions. Dan has been the principal architect of the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool and supports market intelligence and strategy projects related to Open Access.
Dr. Simone Rosenkranz
University of Lucerne, Library, Lucernce, Switzerland - https://www.unilu.ch/fakultaeten/tf/professuren/judaistik-und-theologie/mitarbeitende/simone-rosenkranz/#tab=c2201;
Simone Rosenkranz studied Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Lucerne and Basel and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1999 she received her doctorate with a thesis on Jewish-Christian relations in the early Islamic Orient. From 1999 to 2009 Simone Rosenkranz was an assistant at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Lucerne. Since 2002 she has also been a subject specialist at the Central and University Library, where she initially supervised the subjects Jewish Studies and Biblical Studies, and since 2005 also the departments of Religious Studies, Science Research (from 2009) and Health Sciences (from 2013). Simone Rosenkranz also holds a teaching position for Modern Hebrew I at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research.
Ms. Sara Rouhi
PLOS, Washington, District of Columbia, United States - https://plos.org/about/;
Sara Rouhi is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at PLOS focusing on developing new business models for sustainable, inclusive open access publishing. She previously managed business development at Digital Science for both the Altmetric and Dimensions platforms. She volunteers for SSP's Education Committee and ALPSP's North American Steering Committee amongst others. She was the recipient of the SSP's Emerging Leader award in 2015 and writes and speaks frequently on metrics, open access, and diversity in scholarly communications. She's a comedian and improviser in Washington DC and tweets all things politics, open science, improv, and #scholcomm on Twitter.
Mr. Antonio Tenorio-Fornés
Decentralized Science, Madrid, Spain - https://decentralized.science/;
Antonio Tenorio-Fornés is a free software developer and researcher. He holds a 5 years CS/Eng degree and a Master in Research in Computer Science. He is currently the principal investigator of Decentralized Science, funded by LEDGER European Project. He is also developing his PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for which he received funding by an institutional scholarship. His research aims to provide decentralized governance tools for Commons-Based Peer Production communities. He has also participated in the European Projects P2P Models and P2Pvalue. He has been visiting researcher at the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster and Kozminski University. His experience developing decentralized web tools includes Teem, SwellRT and Decentralized.science, using technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS.
Mr. Didier Torny
The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), Paris, France - http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/en/people/researchers/didier-torny/;
Didier Torny’s research works are at the crossroads of the sociology of mobilization, the sociology of law, public policies studies and science and technology studies. On risk and health issues, his publications has underlined the role of alarm raisers in the agenda setting theory, helped to clarify the role of administrations in writing, implementing and controlling public regulation and discussed the emergence of new forms of government, based on traceability, to address them. He has conducted his research programs on many fieldworks: prion diseases, asbestos, pesticides, vaccines, diethylstilbestrol and endocrine disruptors, pandemic influenza.
Didier Torny joined CSI in 2016, where he keeps on doing fieldwork on controversies affecting preventive health policies, notably mammogram screenings, and on a political economy of academic publication, especially with David Pontille. He is also project officer at the Scientific and Technical Direction of CNRS, copilot of the evaluation group of the French Open Science Commitee, and contributes to Scriptopolis, a blog on urban writings, with CSI colleagues.
Dr. Clemens Trautwein
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Engineering and Architecture, Library, Lucernce, Switzerland - https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts/about-us/people-finder/profile/?pid=4520;
Clemens Trautwein focused his work on project work and project management in national and international research projects in the field of water ecology. He now uses his experience in analytical thinking, research and publishing as a subject specialist at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Library of Engineering & Architecture. He advises and trains researchers in scientific publishing, especially Open Access, and research data management.
Clemens received his doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna in 2013, having completed his diploma in landscape planning and landscape management in 2007. In his academic career to date, he has published scientific articles and book chapters as a first author, mentored students and designed and conducted courses.
Mr. Michael Upshall
UNSILO, Aarhus, Denmark - https://unsilo.ai/about-us/;
Michael Upshall is head of business development at UNSILO, the machine-learning arm of Cactus Communications. His publishing experience began with compiling dictionaries and editing how-to books, before co-founding reference publisher Helicon Publishing, invested in by Microsoft and then floated on the UK AIM. He has worked with publishers on digital creation and delivery, including The IET, CABI and Cambridge University Press, as well as managing projects for JISC, the UK association for digital solutions in UK higher education. He has written articles and books (Content Licensing, Elsevier, 2009), and writes a regular column on digital publishing.
Prof. Dr. Ludo Waltman
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands - https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ludo-waltman#tab-1;
Ludo Waltman is professor of Quantitative Science Studies and deputy director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Ludo leads the Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) research group at CWTS. The QSS group does research in the fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics, with a special emphasis on applications in research management and science policy. Together with his colleague Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo has developed two software tools for the analysis and visualization of bibliometric networks: VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer. Ludo is coordinator of the CWTS Leiden Ranking, a bibliometric ranking of major universities worldwide. In addition, Ludo serves as Editor-in-Chief of Quantitative Science Studies.
Ms. Rebecca Welzenbach
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI, United States - https://www.lib.umich.edu/users/rwelzenb;
Rebecca Welzenbach helps scholars present themselves and their work to the world. She empowers scholars to create the conditions under which they can establish a strong public identity, a coherent account of their contributions to the scholarly enterprise, and a persuasive body of evidence for the impact of their work within the academy and for the public. She can answer questions about and provide training on the following tools and topics: Altmetric/Altmetric Explorer, bibliometrics/citation analysis, Dimensions, hypothes.is, Michigan Research Experts, research impact metrics, and establishing and maintaining a public scholarly profile. Rebecca is also always glad to talk about open access, repositories, copyright and licensing issues, etc., as they pertain to making your work more discoverable, usable, and impactful.
Dr. Alicia Wise
Information Power, Winchester, United Kingdom - http://www.informationpower.co.uk/who-we-are/alicia-wise/;
Alicia Wise is an effective and experienced game changer working at the intersection of copyright, digital technologies, policy, and people. Alicia is known for her work as a communicator, influencer, and relationship builder and as someone who can drive organisational development and transformational change. With both an open and candid personality and tenacity and determination, she is driven to do what is right and get things done through collaboration and partnership. She has more than 30 years’ experience in the academic information space including roles with libraries, publishers, and researchers. Most recently she was with Elsevier where she led on Open Access and global strategic relations. Prior to this she held roles with the Publishers Association, Publishers Licensing Society, Jisc, Archaeology Data Service, and in universities. She has served on the boards of Access to Research, Accessible Books Consortium, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, Digital Preservation Coalition, and Research4Life.
We are pleased to say that, from all accounts, the BSPF2020 was a great success and the presentations were of a very high level!
During the conference, all the presentations were recorded. They are currently being edited and will soon be uploaded on the conference webpage.
Upon request, the participants of the event who have registered on Sciforum will receive an electronic Certificate of Attendance by email once the event is concluded.
Many thanks for joining us and see you next year!
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Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing launched in September 2018. It was put forward by an international consortium of research funders called cOAlition S. Plan S requires that from 2021 scientific publications from research supported by participating funders must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms. The principles and implementation guidelines have been clearly stated and many funding agencies and organizations have endorsed the principles.
While a global transition to Open Access is within reach, concerns have arisen over the stability of the publishing landscape on one hand and that of the global research system on the other. Some concerns include researcher evaluation, tenure and promotion; the pressure on learned societies, which often rely on publishing revenues for their activities; and the pressure on small publishers, society publishers and Open Access publishers who do not benefit from negotiated “Publish and Read” deals.
The 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum (BSPF) will be held virtually from 26–27 October 2020. The aim of the forum is to offer a platform for an open and constructive conversation between researchers, learned societies, university librarians, funding agencies, scholarly publishers, publishing platforms, and other concerned stakeholders (professional associations, etc.) to identify implementable solutions for a sustainable global transition to open access. A main topic of discussion of BSPF2 will be the challenges facing learned societies in this transition to Open Access, but the conference will also cover a broad array of topics relevant to these challenges, like the development of alternative metrics, the evaluation and promotion of researchers, the OA price transparency, the current situation and limitations of transformative agreements, copyright, etc.
This will be a unique opportunity to work together towards sustainable solutions for a successful global transition to open access.
We would like to invite all relevant stakeholders, especially the research community and representatives of learned societies, to join us and participate by sharing their experience, views, opinions, or results, and, to submit a proposal in response to one of the calls.
The University of Basel and MDPI look forward to welcoming you to our virtual conference!
In this section, you will find the different recordings of the sessions held over the two days of the 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum for you to watch, re-watch and share with your colleagues!
Day 1 - 26 October 2020
Session 1: Partners for Independent Publishers
Session 2: Open Access Agreements Between Libraries and Publishers
Day 2 - 27 October 2020
Session 3: Transformative Journals
Session 4: New Open Access Initiatives
Session 5: Bibliometrics in the Open Access Era
BSPF Webinar 1 | Plan S and Price Transparency: Towards a Breakdown of Publication Services and Prices
The first webinar of the BSPF was held on 2 July 2020 at 3.00 pm (CEST). It touched upon topics such as Plan S and Price Transparency and consisted of talks from different publishers. The webinar website and the full recording can be found here.
BSPF Webinar 2 | New Approaches to Evaluate Researchers' Impact
The second webinar in this series was held on 11 September 2020 at 2:00 pm (CEST). It was entitled "New Approaches to Evaluate Researchers' Impact" and Prof. Dr. Ed Constable from the University of Basel and co-chair of the BSPF 2020 moderated the webinar. The full recording is online: https://bspfwebinar2.sciforum.net.
Call for Presentations
We are looking for speakers willing to present important initiatives or projects relevant to the global transition to open access. Proposals can contain updates on well-known initiatives, or new initiatives and frameworks. They may also cover research that provides a novel and alternative perspective on the transition to open access. Presentations may be keynotes (30-45min) or short presentations (10-15min). Presentation proposals should consist of up to 500 words.
Call for Panels
We seek proposals for interactive panels intended to generate lively discussions. We are primarily looking for panels directly relevant to learned societies, but also for panels discussing topics relevant to the global transition to Open Access.
Panels will be composed of 4–8 panelists and last between 45 minutes to 1.5 hours.
Panel proposals should consist of a (maximum) 500-word abstract. Please also provide the names, affiliations, and email addresses of panelists who have agreed to participate.
Call for Posters
We welcome poster presentations on research, viewpoints, analysis, and initiatives relevant to the audience and topic. Poster proposals should consist of up to 500 words.
Submissions must be submitted in English to bspf@mdpi.com before 13 September 2020.
Notification of acceptance: around 9 October 2020.
You can download the full call for proposals here.
Purpose
Expectations
-to actively engage in creating a friendly and safe environment for all,
-to express their views in the context of the rights of all other participants to hold and express different views,
-to be kind and considerate, and, to respect personal space and boundaries for personal interactions.
-to be mindful of other participants,
-to behave appropriately, and to refrain from displaying any demeaning, harassing, aggressive, offensive or intimidating materials or behavior,
-to dress and behave professionally,
-to respect others’ properties, including private and communal property.
-to follow regulations and laws applicable at the venue.
Inappropriate behavior — harassment, aggression, and intimidation
Consequences of inappropriate behavior
What to do about inappropriate behavior?
If you have questions regarding this Code of Conduct or its implementation, please contact us.
We look forward to an outstanding meeting!
The Basel Autumn Fair (Basler Herbstmesse) is Switzerland's biggest and oldest funfair. Dating back over 540 years, it is part of the city's living cultural heritage and it draws about a million people from Switzerland and elsewhere to Basel. This huge fair is spread over seven of the city’s plazas and also in the trade fair center, giving the impression that it stretches over the entire city center.
