FREE UKSG webinar - Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly: Central European University Press and Opening the Future

Frances Pinter Executive Chair at Central European University Press

Frances was CEO of Manchester University Press, the founding Publisher of Bloomsbury Academic and founder of Knowledge Unlatched. Previously she was Publishing Director at the Open Society Foundation. Earlier she founded Pinter Publishers that also owned Leicester University Press and established the imprint Belhaven Press. She has sat on a number of publishing trade body boards and now advises a number of small university presses. She is a senior research fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Martin Paul Eve Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and a COPIM project lead

Martin has appeared before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, and been a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel (2014), and the Universities UK OA Monographs Working Group (2016-). Martin is also an Executive Board Officer for punctum books, a Plan S Ambassador, and he co-founded the Open Library of Humanities.

Emily Poznanski Press Director at Central European University Press

Formerly the Director of Strategy at the publisher De Gruyter in Berlin, Emily played a pivotal role in developing De Gruyter’s Open Access policies and investment strategies. She has worked with universities and funders worldwide to enable new partnerships for De Gruyter. Emily contributed to policy developments across the Open Access landscape, especially in promoting Humanities and Social Science interests in Europe’s Plan S. Prior to working at De Gruyter, she managed a team of editors, building up a multi-disciplinary OA book and journal program at the Polish digital start-up Versita (later bought by De Gruyter).

• Colleagues will be able to understand and evaluate the growing number of library open access funding models
• Colleagues will be able to identify if the Opening the Future initiative is a good fit for their own library and institution
• Colleagues will be equipped to compare this model with other open access initiatives, and understand the challenges facing libraries, publishers and policy-makers in the OA monograph space.

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.

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