An Introduction to open access - online seminar

Jon currently works within a Project Management role for the University of Leeds. He was previously involved in supporting Open Access programmes at the Universities of York and Huddersfield and in a collections development at the British Library.

As VP of Global Policy at Elsevier, Victoria is responsible for managing Elsevier’s policies and strategy in areas related to open access, as well as coordinating on global policy and legislative issues pertaining to Open Science more broadly. Victoria has been with Elsevier for two years and has worked for over 10 years in the policy space, including with educational publisher Pearson and UK trade body The Publishers Association.

Emma Greenwood began her publishing career in 2000, after completing a PhD in cell biology at Cancer Research UK. Initially an editor for Nature Reviews Cancer, she moved into a publishing role in 2004, managing a number of academic journals and launching open access journals. Emma has worked exclusively in open access since moving to Taylor & Francis in 2014, and is now Director of OA. Emma and her team provide expertise and an overarching strategy and structure to grow and develop Taylor & Francis’ open access portfolio, working alongside many different departments in this role.

Robert Kiley is Head of Strategy at cOAlition S, working to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access.

Prior to this he was Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust where he was responsible for developing and implementing their open research strategy.

Over the past decade Robert has played a leading role in the implementation of Wellcome's open access policy and overseeing the development of the Europe PubMed Central repository. He also led the development - in partnership with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society - of eLife, the open-access research journal, launched in 2012. More recently he championed the work to create a new open publishing platform for Wellcome researchers – Wellcome Open Research.

Robert is a qualified librarian, a Board member of Open Research Central and served for 6 years on the ORCID Board of Directors.

Colleen Campbell is strategic advisor for external engagement at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). There she coordinates two open access initiatives: the Open Access 2020 Initiative, a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that are repurposing their investments in subscriptions to support open access publishing, and the ESAC Initiative, a library community of practice building capacities around transformative and open access publishing agreements. She is a member of the LIBER Open Access Working Group and serves on the Managing Board of EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries.
@oa2020ini; @ColleenCampbe11

Nick Sheppard has worked in scholarly communications for over 10 years, currently as Open Research Advisor at the University of Leeds. Previously he was Research Services Advisor at Leeds Beckett University. Nick is interested in effective dissemination of research through sustainable models of open access, including underlying data, and potential synergies with open education and Open Educational Resources (OER), particularly underlying technology, software and interoperability of systems.

A molecule maker, from small scale to pilot-plant production. Developed processes in natural products (garlic), catalysis (biobutanol), reactor automation, solvent extraction (uranium from used nuclear fuel) and regenerating cotton fibres (cellulose).
Lab-based experimentalist at the University of Leeds, working with SME's, UK Catalysis Hub Consortia, UK National Nuclear Laboratory, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and The Clothworkers' Company.
Awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) for lecturing, teaching and training in Higher Education across the UK, validating his track record of teaching in a University environment, with an enthusiastic approach to research-led and teaching core chemical engineering and chemistry topics.

Nicola Barnett has worked for Leeds University Library in a variety of roles for over 20 years. She has worked in open access since 2015 and was involved in the Library side of the REF2014 and REF2021 submissions. Nicola is based in the Research Support Team in the Library and looks after the University publications database (Symplectic Elements) and the institutional repository (White Rose Research Online).

Lorraine has worked in open access at Leeds University since 2018 and is currently the Repositories Co-ordinator. In this role she manages the work of the repository team, who administer authors' deposits to the Institutional Repository, White Rose Research Online. Lorraine is based in the Research Support Team at Leeds. Prior to working in open access, Lorraine has over 10 years' experience working in public libraries - both in customer service roles and in acquistions. Lorraine gained her library qualification in 2015 and is a member of CILIP

Jonathan has worked at the University of Leeds since 2009 and began working in open access when the University's open access project was launched in 2013 alongside UKRI's open access policy. He now works as the APC Coordinator, managing the open access block grants from UKRI, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK, with responsibility for compliance and finance reporting. Jonathan is interested in sustainable open access and how the UK HE sector transitions away from a largely funder and money led OA model. 

My name is Andrea Chiarelli, and I am an experienced senior consultant specialising in open research practices, scholarly communication, academic publishing and university management. I have worked with a wide range of research stakeholders, including universities, membership organisations, funders, publishers and vendors. I am a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMgr FCMI) and hold an MBA from Nottingham Business School. Other qualifications include a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham (UK) and an MSc in Nuclear and Energy Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy).