UKSG - The Open Access Lifecycle Seminar 2021

Ruth Mallalieu is Head of Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The Open Scholarship Department provides a central point for advocacy and strategy in the areas of open scholarship and open publishing, Research Data Management, copyright and licensing, digital preservation and digital innovation. She is Chair of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) and of the Scholarly Communications Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. She is a member of the LIBER Open Access Working Group, the LERU Info Policy Group, and the UUK Copyright Negotiating and Advisory Committee (CNAC). She is a current LLM candidate in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Edinburgh. A keen amateur clarinettist in her spare time, she is involved in a number of research initiatives relating to music and auditory neuroscience.

Patricia Killiard is Senior Deputy Director, Academic Services, Cambridge University Libraries, responsible for strategic leadership of services supporting education and research, collection development and management. The directorate includes the Office of Scholarly Communication, which provides the research community with OA and research data management support, and the team managing the university-wide Journal Co-ordination Scheme. She leads for the libraries of the University on supporting the implementation of Plan S. 

Jen Bayjoo works as the Academic Support Manager for Research at the University of Salford. She manages a small open research team and together they support the University with the delivery of the research strategy. She is also the co-Chair of the BAME staff network, runs Diversity in Libraries of the North (DILON) and has used lockdown as an excuse to catch up on multiple Netflix series and reading

Wendy has been Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Salford since 2019 and has held previous roles in cataloguing and repositories. As part of her role in the Library's Research Support Team, she provides training and advice on open access, research dissemination and open research to PGRs and academic staff of all disciplines. She also manages applications to the University's institutional and UKRI open access funds and transformative agreements.

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.

COLLEEN CAMPBELL leads external engagement in the OA transition at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). There she coordinates the Open Access 2020 Initiative, a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that is driving the transition of today’s scholarly journals to open access publishing models, and the ESAC Initiative, an international community of practice dedicated to optimizing open access workflows and processes. She serves on the Managing Board of EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries), the LIBER Open Access Working Group, and the advisory groups of a number of other scholarly communication initiatives. She truly loves her job.

Jez Cope is Data Services Lead in the British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He is responsible for the Library’s research identifiers service in conjunction with DataCite, and for implementing the Research Data Strategy.

He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology; previous roles include research data management at University of Sheffield, Imperial College London and University of Bath. He graduated from Imperial College London with an MSci in Joint Mathematics & Computing.

He is an experienced teacher and is involved with grassroots-driven data & software skills training organisation The Carpentries, as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

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.

Carolyn works within the Commercial Division at Taylor & Francis, in a global role focused on accelerating the open access programme. Carolyn works closely with HE libraries and consortia to understand their open research goals and to put in place agreements which are sustainable for both sides, including Transformative Agreements. A particular area of focus has been ensuring the development of OA infrastructure at Taylor & Francis is meeting the needs of evolving business models. Carolyn also works closely with the F1000Research team and is a strong advocate for open research practices

Steve has worked in open access at three different institutions, most recently at the University of Manchester where he’s been a Research Services Librarian since January 2019. He is especially interested in the potential for open access to remove barriers between research and non-academic audiences. Outside of work, he enjoys low quality football, professional wrestling and the music of Arthur Russell.

Tristan joined the University of Manchester open access team in April 2018 as a Research Services Officer. Previous to this he was a postgraduate researcher at Newcastle University, completing his doctoral thesis in 2019. He is interested in how open research practices can better integrate the research community and wider society together. When not working on open access enquiries he enjoys reading history, watching football, and walking in the countryside.