UKSG November Conference - Open Scholarship 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly

Joanna Ball is Managing Director for DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Before joining DOAJ in 2022, her career was based in academic libraries in the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library. She is currently Chair of UKSG.

Patrick Danowski is the manager of IST Austria Library, member of the board of the Austrian Library Association and a division chair of IFLA. Earlier he worked at CERN as Emerging Technologies Librarian and in the Berlin state library.He has a degree in computer science and library and information science.

The fields of interest are Research Data, Open Access, infrastructure and new technologies.

Lucy Barnes is Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers, a leading independent Open Access book publisher. She also works on outreach for the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project and for the ScholarLed consortium. She coordinates the Open Access Books Network (oabooksnetwork.org) in collaboration with OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and Sparc Europe, and she is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit. She is also (slowly but surely) completing a PhD on nineteenth-century theatrical adaptations of novels and poetry. You can find her on Twitter @alittleroad.

Joe Deville is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. He is currently jointly leading a work package on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, funded by UKRI/Arcadia Fund. He is also a co-founder of Mattering Press and ScholarLed and is particularly interested in the politics of Open Access infrastructures.

Dr Alex Freeman had a career making science documentaries before returning to academia in 2016. Here she became concerned at the effects of the current scientific publishing model on researchers' work, careers and culture and developed an alternative.

Joanna Ball is Managing Director for DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Before joining DOAJ in 2022, her career was based in academic libraries in the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library. She is currently Chair of UKSG.

Chris has nearly 39 years’ experience working in Libraries, including over 20 at the British Library in a variety of curatorial, management and strategic roles, and over 16at University Library Director level. She joined Imperial College in September 2013 as Director of Library Services.
Chris's areas of expertise include strategy, open science and scholarly communications, organisational change, public engagement, space, and her original discipline, music.
Chris is a member of the Jisc UUK Content Negotiations Strategy Group, she chairs the Jisc UUK Content Expert Group, she is an elected Board member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), and a member of the SCONUL Content Strategy Group.

Arnold is the Regional Librarian, East Africa at The Aga Khan University where he is in charge of all the AKU campus libraries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. He holds a master’s in Information Science from Kenyatta University, A master’s in organizational development from USIU-A and a certification in Lib@web Programme from University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is currently completing a PhD in Information Science at Moi University. He is the Executive Secretary of the Kenya Library & Information Science Consortium; the Country & Licencing coordinator for EIFL; a Standing Committee
member of the IFLA Environment Sustainability and Libraries Section; and an IFLA/OCLC Fellow from the Jay Jordan fellowship in Columbus, Ohio. His research interests are in Open Access, Library automation, Knowledge management, Evidence Based practice and Green libraries. He has authored eight (8) journal articles in peer reviewed journals and two book chapters. Arnold was priviledged to attend the 40th UKSG conference in Harrogate in 2017.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions. In 2020 she launched Mellins-Cohen Consulting in response to requests for help in developing and implementing learned society-appropriate OA business models. From 2022 she took over the running of COUNTER, the global standard for usage metrics, alongside her consulting work.

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press and before that the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM, SSP, and CHORUS, as well as the AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech. David also serves as the Executive Editor of the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

Jessica is the Publishing Director for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences journals programme at Routledge, Taylor & Francis. She has many years of experience working closely with learned societies and associations on developing their publication portfolios. She is particularly interested in a sustainable and equitable transition to open for the arts and humanities and social sciences.

Sally Hardy began her career at the Economic and Social Research Council and moved from there to the Regional Studies Association where she has been CEO for over 30 years. She has developed the organisation from a small, UK focused organisation into a global Association with an international footprint. Sally has become an advocate on publishing issues for the learned society sector speaking regularly at national conferences and events. She has advocated on different aspects of Open Access – for journals as well as for monographs and also around copy right reform and educational exceptions. She speaks on publishing practice and particularly on how to grow impact from publishing activity and on issues of learned society strategy

Matteo Fumagalli is a biomedical engineer by training. He completed his PhD at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and then undertook postdoctoral research positions at University of California – Berkeley funded by EMBO, and at UCL funded by HFSP. He then joined Imperial College London and recently moved to Queen Mary University of London as Senior Lecturer in Genetics. Matteo’s research integrates statistics, computer science and genetics to understand how much evolution has shaped disease susceptibility. He is an advocate of open-source software, open-access science and member of the managing board of Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology.

 

Nadia has just completed her PhD at Imperial College London. She focused on developing methods to improve the feasibility, efficiency and accuracy of preclinical systematic reviews while addressing neurobiological questions of interest to improve the predictive validity of animal research, the use of machine technologies and employment of crowd science to ensure that research conduct is rigorous, open, and transparent. She is the UK Reproducibility Network’s Local Network Lead and Badges and Preprint Editor at BMJ Open Science. She also has an interest in sharing her military experiences and knowledge of leadership development to engender a more positive research culture.

 

Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice Dean International in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London. He is also Professor of Literary Criticism at the University of Rome III. His publications include "Human Reproduction and Parental Responsibility" (2021); "Rethinking the Animal-Human Relation" (2019); "The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia" (2014); "The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde" (2010, winner of the 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize). He has held visiting and honorary positions at the Universities of Rome Sapienza, Siena, Oxford and Cagliari, and at the British School at Rome.