Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and
Social Sciences Conference
1 and 2 July 2013, The British Library, London
Programme 1 July 2013
Time
Description
09.30 – 11.00
Registration with Tea and Coffee in the Foyer
Twitter tag: #OAbooks
Auditorium
11.00 – 11.20
Welcome and Opening: Setting the scene
» Martin Hall - Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford
11.20 – 11.50
Keynote: The three sociologies of the book and the e-book, and Open
Access
» Jean-Claude Guédon -Professor at the Department of Comparative
Literature, University of Montreal
11.50 – 12.45
Panel: HSS after Finch
Chair: Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford
» Rupert Gatti - Director of Open Book Publishers, fellow of Trinity
College, University of Cambridge
» Philippe Aigrain - CEO of Sopinspace, author of Sharing
» Carl-Christian Buhr - Member of the Cabinet of Ms Neelie Kroes, Vice
President of the European Commission, Digital Agenda
» Sally Hardy - Chief Executive, Regional Studies Association
» Kimberley Hackett -REF Higher Education Policy Advisor, Higher
Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
12.45 – 14.00
Lunch and Posters in the Foyer and Chaucer Room
14.00 – 15.00
Session: Promising Business Models
Chair: Brian Hole - Director, Ubiquity Press
» Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards - Founders of Open Library of
Humanities
» Frances Pinter - Executive Director, Knowledge Unlatched
» Carrie Calder - Marketing Director, Palgrave Macmillan
15.00 – 15.20
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Tea and Coffee in the Foyer
Time
Description
15.20 – 16.00
Session: Copyright and Creative Commons
» Joscelyn Upendran - CEO, Zilpa
» Ben White - Head of Intellectual Property, British Library
16.00 – 16.30
Session: Peer review and Quality
» Kathleen Fitzpatrick - Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern
Language Association (MLA)
16.30 – 16.45
Launch: Directory of Open Access Books
» Bas Savenije, Director of the Netherlands National Library (KB) and
Eelco Ferwerda, Director of OAPEN Foundation
» DOAB Sponsors represented by Veronika Spinka, SpringerOpen Books
Manager, SpringerOpen and Sam Bruinsma, Vice President Business
Development & E-Publishing, Brill
18.30 – 19.30
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Drinks reception at the British Library Terrace Restaurant
Programme 2 July 2013
Time
Description
09.30 – 10.00
Registration with Tea and Coffee in the Foyer
Twitter tag: #OAbooks
Auditorium
10.00 – 10.10
Introducing day 2
» Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford
10.10 – 11.10
Showcase 1
» Open Book Publishers - Rupert Gatti, Director and Alessandra Tosi,
Managing Director
» OpenEdition - Pierre Mounier, Associate Director, Centre for Open
Electronic Publishing, Cleo
» OECD Publishing - Toby Green, Head of Publishing
11.10 – 11.20
Introduction to Strands
» Neil Jacobs - Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc
11.30 – 12.30
Strands, morning session
Strand 1: Bronte Room
11.30 – 12.30
How exactly do you get your monograph published in open access?
This strand is for HSS researchers and PhD students who are interested in the
idea of an open access monograph. It will take them through the process step by
step, introduce them to key sources of information and make sure they are
aware of any issues.
Chair: Professor Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Queensland
University of Technology
» Connecting Research and Researchers – An Introduction to ORCID - Ed
Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef
» Get to grips with copyright and creative commons – A guide to Creative
Commons for HSS researchers - Ernesto Priego, Lecturer in Library
Science, City University London
» Find a reputable OA publisher – Directory of Open Access Books
(DOAB) –Janneke Adema, PhD in Media and Communication, Coventry
University
» Funding, mandates and embargoes – what are the options? - Ellen
Collins, Research Consultant, Research Information Network
» Tips for promoting your book - Will Brooker, Professor of Film Studies,
Kingston University
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Time
Description
» Tracking your book – what you should know about altmetrics - Lucy
Montgomery, Vice Chancellors Research Fellow, Queensland University
of Technology
Strand 2: Auditorium
11.30 – 12.30
Open Access books and the supply chain
The current supply chain is set up around publishers selling monographs and
edited collections on one side and libraries and individual users purchasing on the
other. In a move to Open Access, regardless of the business model, there will be
changes to workflows, processes and new steps will be introduced.
Chair: Simon Bell, Head of Partnerships, British Library
» OA and metadata – quality assurance, transparency and CrossMark–
Michiel Thijssen, Publisher, Brill and Rachael Lammey, Product
Manager, CrossRef
» Challenges in the supply chain and ONIX for OA books - Adam Purser,
Bibliographic Services Manager, Palgrave Macmillan and Graham Bell,
Chief Data Architect, EDItEUR
» Discovery and dissemination of OA monographs – a publisher’s
perspective –Veronika Spinka, SpringerOpen Books Manager, Springer
» Discovery and dissemination of OA monographs – a librarian's
perspective - Jill Russell, Digital Assets Programme Manager and Jon
Andrews, Librarian, University of Birmingham
Strand 3: Eliot Room
11.30 – 12.30
How can funders and policy makers support the transition to OA
monographs?
This strand is for policy makers and funders to look at where collaboration will
help to support a robust research environment. The session will bring together
policy makers and research funders that are interested or actively involved in
supporting Open Access for monographs, through specific experiments, projects
or funding schemes.
Chair: Bas Savenije, director of the Netherlands National Library (KB) and
chair of OAPEN Foundation
Examples of funding programmes and OA book projects:
» United Kingdom: Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research, Arts and
Humanities Research Council, AHRC
» Netherlands: Annemarie Bos, Director Humanities, Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO
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Time
Description
» Germany: Angela Holzer, Programme Officer, German Research
Foundation (DFG) and Ralf Schimmer, Head of Scientific Information
Provision, Max Planck Digital Library
» Austria: Doris Haslinger, Programme Manager for stand-alone
publications in Humanities and Social Sciences, Austrian Science Fund
(FWF)
» Sweden: Birgitta Hellmark-Lindgren, Deputy Director and Head of
Communications, Stockholm University Library
12.30 – 13.45
Lunch and Posters in the Foyer and Chaucer Room
13.45 – 14.45
Strands, afternoon session (1, 2 and 3 continued)
14.45 – 15.15
Tea and Coffee in the Foyer
Auditorium
15.15 – 16.15
Showcase 2
» MPublishing - Shana Kimball, Business Development Manager at New
York Public Library
» Open Monograph Press at Heidelberg - Andrea Hacker, Managing
Editor, University of Heidelberg
» Hybrid Publishing Lab - Simon Worthington, and Mercedes Bunz,
Director of the Hybrid Publishing Research Team
16.15 – 16.45
Closing Keynote
» Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science (PLoS)
17.00
Close
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