Dr. Paul Ayris, University College London and Dr. Tiberius Ignat, Scientific Knowledge Services

Dr Ayris is Pro-Vice- Provost (UCL Library Services). He joined UCL in 1997. Dr Ayris was the President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2010-14; he is now Advisor to the LIBER Board. He is Co-Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) INFO Community. He chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern-Unige Workshops on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. He is also the Chair of JISC Collections’ Content Strategy Group. On 1 August 2013, Dr Ayris became Chief Executive of UCL Press. He is a member of the Provost and President’s Senior Management Team in UCL.
He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies.

Dr Tiberius Ignat runs Scientific Knowledge Services, a company which specialises in supporting libraries in central and eastern Europe to embrace new technologies and ways of working. He is a long-time individual member of LIBER and has a personal interest in Open Science, particularly Citizen Science. He has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Bucharest.

Presentation:
The Empires of the Future are the Empires of the Mind: Defining the Role of Libraries in the Open Science Landscape
Open Science represents a potential revolution in the way that research is undertaken, disseminated and curated. The paper will look at the main elements of the Open Science workflow – conceptualization, data gathering, analysis, publication, review – and the characteristics of that workflow – citizen science, open code, open access, pre-prints, alternative reputation systems, science blogs, open annotation, open data, open lab books/workflows, data-intensive approaches.

Having established the baseline for Open Science approaches, the paper will look at the impact of open science in 4 areas of activity, identify the current role of the Library in each and the potential the Library has to contribute to this agenda going forward. The four areas which the paper will address are open access and new publishing models, research data management, the European Open Science cloud and citizen science.

In the area of open access, libraries have customarily engaged in the payment of APCs (article processing charges) and in establishing open access repositories. The paper will look at activity in one of the most active UK open access teams at UCL and then examine future publishing models. In particular, it will show universities might themselves subvert the current monograph model by offering publishing services from university libraries.

In research data management, the outputs and outcomes of the EU-funded LEARN project will be analysed. These will dwell on research data management policy, best practice case studies, executive briefings and the findings of a survey looking at the level of preparation for RDM in research organisations across the globe. The paper will look particularly at the future role for libraries in the research data space, which the LEARN project is identifying, and suggest that research data management in the context of open science re-defines the role of the Library in research support and the research workflow.

The European open science cloud (EOSC) has the potential to put Europe at the forefront of open science developments. As a member of the high level EOSC Expert Group, the principal speaker will analyse the main drivers behind the recommendations for the development of the cloud and the future role for libraries in sustaining this revolutionary development.

Citizen science is part of citizen engagement in science and research. We observe a growing interest of citizens to contribute to a better society. In conjunction with newly-available technologies, a world of opportunities opens for research institutions. The paper will map existing experiences and recommendations from research intensive organizations and we will then present a blueprint for the roles of the library in this landscape with Guidelines for best practice.

The paper will conclude by analysing the challenges which open science presents. Rooted in the research workflow, the paper will identify the impact which open science is having on libraries and identify future roles that they can adopt in their institutions, both to support and also to help lead open science implementation.

Colleen Campbell, Max Planck Digital Library

Colleen Campbell recently joined the Max Planck Digital Library to lead Partner Development in the global Open Access 2020 Initiative. Previously, Director for Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships in Europe for JSTOR and Portico, she has over 20 years’ experience working in various roles within the scholarly communications sector. She is presently serving a 3-year term as an elected member of the UKSG Main Committee and recently co-edited an issue of Against the Grain on the Future of the Monograph. Combining her passions for books and people, she began work in Library acquisitions while pursuing a Theatre degree from Indiana University. She later completed an MA in Italian Studies from Middlebury College and settled near Florence, Italy.

Presentation:
OA2020: achieving a rapid and scholarly oriented transition to Open Access
Open Access 2020 is a global initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing. OA2020 aims to bring a new approach to the transactional side of the publishing system and the ways in which its cash flow is organized. The goal is to achieve on a larger scale what SCOAP3 has successfully done for some core journals in the field of High-Energy Physics: to convert journals from subscription to open access by re-directing the existing subscription spend into open access funds, and from these to finance the essential services that publishers provide for scholarly communication, i.e. the administration of peer review, editing, and open access article dissemination.

The OA2020 initiative is based on the understanding that the subscription system that has underpinned scholarly journals will eventually become obsolete. Subscription belongs to an era when the challenge for the sharing of knowledge was physical distribution; a journal’s hard copies needed to be laid out, printed and shipped, with payment organized accordingly. While the modernization of the publishing industry has enabled easy distribution in a context of abundant supply, the step that has yet to happen is the cash flow’s shift from the journal level to the article level. Scholarship’s crucial publishing services should be remunerated directly, rather than indirectly through subscriptions. With such a move, the publishing system will be able to engage with the realities and potentials of the 21st century.

In considering the financial aspects of this initiative, OA2020 builds on analysis that shows that there is already enough money within journal publishing to allow for a transition to open access that will be – at a minimum – cost-neutral. This analysis is outlined in a widely-read White Paper, published by the Max Planck Digital Library in April 2015.

The key to success in the transformation from the current subscription model to Open Access publishing is in the hands of the world’s research organizations, as they decide – in tandem with their libraries – how to allocate their funds. What is required is a broad, global consensus among these organizations to withdraw all spending from journal subscriptions and re-allocate those same resources to publishing services.

Liam Earney, Jisc Collections

Mr. Earney has worked at Jisc Collections since 2003 as collections manager, collections team manager and head of licensing, in which roles he was involved in the negotiation and licensing of a wide range of e-content agreements on behalf of universities, colleges and museum libraries. He has also been involved in a large number of projects associated with copyright and licensing, especially the adoption of machine readable licences, as well as providing consultancy and advice to the NHS, the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and a variety of overseas consortia on the negotiation and procurement of e-content.
Most recently he was seconded to lead the Knowledge Base+ project building a shared academic community knowledge base for UK organisations.
As well as the UK education sector, Liam has worked with the NHS and museum library sectors and a number of overseas consortia, providing advice on the procurement and licensing of scholarly content.

Presentation
The development of consortial approaches to Open Access in the UK
In the five years since the Finch Report Jisc has been at the forefront of consortium negotiations with publishers in the UK to support a rapid transition to open access for UK research outputs. Drawing on institutional data on open access, this talk will reflect on the experience of negotiations in that period covering pure Gold, Hybrid and Green open access as Jisc, working with UK institutions, has steadily developed its approach in response to the available evidence. It will also explore the attitudes of institutions and look at the tensions around the current approach and their impact on negotiations.

Dr. Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Universitat de Barcelona

Dr. Ignasi Labastida is the Head of the Office the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Universitat de Barcelona where he is also leading the Research Unit at the CRAI (Learning and Research Resource Center). From this Office he is leading different projects towards openness related with open educational resources, open access and open data within his own institution and partnering with external institutions. He has been a member of the OCW Consortium Board of Directors on behalf of Creative Commons and a member of the Administrative Council of Communia, an International Association on the Public Domain built on the eponymous Thematic Network. Currently, he is engaged in the LEARN project funded by the European Commission aimed at the implementation of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data. He is also member of the Steering Committee of the CIO Community of the LERU.

Presentation
Is my university ready for the open science challenges?
Open science has become a buzzword in the academic environment but it has many meanings and it brings a lot of challenges to a university if it wants to deal with it. The complexity of the multiple faces of the open science requires to have an institutional plan or roadmap to face it and try to succeed. On one hand funders and national bodies are pulling for open science to bring research closer to citizens without restrictions and on the other hand a new generation of researchers are expecting a broad institutional support to their new practices. We will share what has been done at the University of Barcelona and the learnt experiences hoping it could serve any other university in the same situation.

Wilhelm Widmark, LIBER

Wilhelm Widmark has a master in Library and information science and a master in literature from Uppsala University in Sweden. He has worked at Stockholm University since year 2000 and has been the Library Director since 2011. He has been a member of LIBER Executive Board since 2012 and has the Chair of the Advocacy and Communications Steering Committee. In Sweden he is engaged in the movement towards Open Science and is the vice chair of Bibsam consortia. He is also a member of different steering groups within SUHF, The Swedish Association of Higher Education.

Presentation
Liber’s new strategy 2018 - 2022
Mr. Wilhelm Widmark will talk about the new LIBER Strategy 2018 – 2022 and the work behind it as well as its implementation and consequences.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Wyler, University of Zurich

Born 1949, Diploma in Physics 1974, PhD 1977.
Various research activities in theoretical particle physics and astroparticle physics.
Professor of theoretical physics at University of Zurich, 1987 - 2015
Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences. Vice president for Science and Medicine at University of Zurich 2008 - 2015
Activities in science outreach and contacts to society.
Present position: Strategic advisor to the president of the University of Zurich

Activities in citizen science and open science
Two years of involvement in citizen science. Main activities in formulating guidelines and principles for sustainable and high quality projects and the incorporation of citizen science at universities with an eye on the general setting of science in society and academia.

Author and initiator of LERU paper on citizen science and universities (2016).
Initiator and organisation of a Citizen Science Center in Zurich (ETH and University of Zurich).
Author of a book chapter for ECSA on citizen science at universities (2017).

Several articles and talks on citizen science at meetings, including the ECSA annual meeting in Barcelona (2015) and at a meeting of the advisory group SWAFS (2016).

Organizing conferences and meetings on citizen science:
November. 2015 Zürich, Standards and recommendations for citizen science
October 2016: Kick-off meeting for Zurich Citizen Science Center

Involvement in the Swiss Network for Citizen Science
Contacts to citizen science organizations in Europe and worldwide
Member of EUA expert group on open science
Co-organizer of open science activities of Swiss Academy of Natural Science

Member of Swiss working group on Open Access strategy
Participation in conferences on Open Science

Presentation:
Citizen Science: Involving Citizens in research
Active participation of citizens in research is increasing, due to new IT-technology and novel research questions that require participation of many people, but also due to the the trend towards ‚open science‘ strongly advocated by the European Commission. This has lead, in fields as varied as astronomy, linguistics or medicine to new insights and to a widening of research areas. I will argue that citizen science is a valid research method and should be part of research agendas and strategies at universities and other public institutions. Citizen science (and more generally open science) opens new ways how universities interact with the general public. It can be an important element when universities reflect and negotiate their place and role in society; for instance citizen science results can be relevant in policy making.

The advantages, fields of application and challenges of citizen science are discussed and illustrated; a set of considerations and guidelines for successful projects is formulated and elaborated on.

Panel discussion: Practicing Openness - a conversation about opportunities and challenges

Open science has a major impact on the creation and dissemination of knowledge worldwide, accelerates innovation, influences policy, facilitates reproducibility of research, and changes the very nature of the scholarly ecosystem. A philosopher, network scientist, and a reformation historical / senior University Officer talk about what open science means to them. Q & A and audience engagement welcome.

Panelists:
Dr. Paul Ayris (UCL, London)
Dr. Roberta Sinatra (CEU, Budapest)
Dr. Maria Kronfeldner (CEU, Budapest)
Moderator: Diane Geraci (Director, CEU Library, Budapest)

Dr. Roberta Sinatra is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Network Science and at the Department of Mathematics, CEU, and a visiting Faculty at the Network Science Institute, Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA). She is a theoretical physicist by training, working at the forefront of network and data science, developing novel theoretical methods and analyzing empirical data sets on social phenomena and human behavior. Read more here about Dr. Roberta Sinatra.

Dr. Maria Kronfeldner is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, CEU, with a focus on the philosophy of life sciences and philosophy of social sciences. She also directs the "Philosophy Research and Publish Lab” to prepare the next generation of philosophers about all things related to research and publishing in philosophy. She has been awarded The Karl Popper Essay Prize of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and The Philosophical Quarterly International Essay Prize. Read more here about Dr. Maria Kronfeldner.

Dr. Paul Ayris is Pro-Vice- Provost (UCL Library Services). He joined UCL in 1997. Dr Ayris was the President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2010-14; he is now Advisor to the LIBER Board. He is Co-Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) INFO Community. He chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern-Unige Workshops on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. He is also the Chair of JISC Collections’ Content Strategy Group. On 1 August 2013, Dr Ayris became Chief Executive of UCL Press. He is a member of the Provost and President’s Senior Management Team in UCL. He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies.

Ms. Diane Geraci is the Director of the CEU Library. She has expertise in collection development of digital and print information resources, traditional library operations and technologies, as well as in institutional repositories and archives, large-scale social science data archives, open access, and the changing scholarly communication environment. Read more here about Dr. Ms. Diane Geraci.

Nicolo Pierini and Georg Wanek - Taylor & Francis

Nicolo’ Pierini works with institutions and consortia across Europe for the development of Open Access publishing with Taylor & Francis. Passionate about Open Research and how to find ways to bring academic research to the public, his long-term goal is drawing a strategy with authors and librarians to identify the best practices on how to make results of academic research understandable to the public. Graduated in Law, his other great passions are Jazz and Blues music, which he tries to pursue by playing the piano in various venues around Europe.

Presentation:
Open Research: Make an Impact.
Taylor & Francis is committed to working with institutions and authors to open their research, thereby achieving maximum impact. In this presentation, Nicolo’ Pierini, Open Access Executive, will outline the advantages of Open Research for all stakeholders. Nicolo will present a variety of academic, public and policy-related benefits of open science, including examples of how this has worked at Taylor & Francis. He will also discuss the Conversion Project, highlighting our experience so far of converting journals to full open access.

Cristina Garcia Pozuelo Sanchez - Taylor & Francis eBooks

Cristina Garcia-Pozuelo Sanchez is the Sales Executive for Ebooks working in Oxfordshire for the prestigious Taylor and Francis publisher. Cristina has been in the academic publishing world for 7 years after working as a secondary school language teacher in the South East of England. Together with her great people’s skills and numerous languages, Cristina loves the face to face contact and teamwork, enjoying very much her time at Taylor and Francis, where she takes care of Central and Eastern Europe.

Presentation:
Life of an eBook
In this presentation I would like to focus on eBooks and their acceptance in library and by users. We will have a look on what is an ebook and what librarians like about them, how are they used and perceived. 
We will summarize recent trends in ebooks vs OA and speak in more details about future of monographs.

Massimiliano Carloni and Marko Zovko - Clarivate Analytics

Massimiliano Carloni (47) graduated in Electronic Engineering at Tor Vergata, E-MBA at MiB in 2008. He has been operating for over 18 years in Sales & Marketing in different sectors and markets. Massimiliano is married and a father of two daughters.
Since March 2013, he has been working in Clarivate Analytics (at that time Thomson Reuters) as Solution Consultant being in charge of pre- and post- sales customer support for European customers. Previously he was in charge of the Italian Top Accounts of Elsevier.
He has developed a deep knowledge of the academic publishing market, paying particular attention to digital platforms.
Previously, he served for five years in the defence industry, at a multinational company (Northrop Grumman), dealing with strategic marketing, business development and institutional relations.

Presentation:
Current status of Open Access publications
A state of the art assessment of how Open Access publications are represented in a worldwide flagship database. Looking at real and updated data, discover if and how Open Access is improving in Hungary and in other European countries. Go deeper in analysing the real full impact of all types of Open Access publications and find out which are the news we are preparing for you.

Krassimira Anguelova - Alexander Street

Krassimira Anguelova is Sales Director, Europe for Alexander Street, a Proquest Company - a leading streaming video publisher. Krassimira has over 10 years of experience in academic publishing and international sales, having managed sales and business development in all Europe, Middle East and Africa. She has extensive knowledge and experience in managing geographically disperse territory which encompasses a diverse range of professional, educational and social cultures and associated sales-generation and sales-support needs, allied with strong languages skills, as well as with relevant social and cultural awareness.

Presentation:
Alexander Street Initiatives for Closing the Gap Between Open Access and Subscription Content
With the growth of open access, a schism between open and paid resources has arisen in academic publishing. This division is counter-productive to finding and accessing the most relevant resources for research. To close the gap, publishers, libraries and archives are working together to explore new methods of integrating open access and for-fee content that will enable scholars and students to have a comprehensive view of their disciplines. This presentation will explore two case studies of open access initiatives, Anthropology Commons and the Open Music Library, that are taking innovative approaches to publishing content that will offer integrated research and discovery experiences.

Lucy Oates and Marzena Giers-Fidler - Oxford University Press

Lucy Oates is an Open Access Publisher at Oxford University Press, with a focus on developing and supporting OUP's open access publishing. Alongside open access, Lucy is also interested in what the shift towards open science means for the scholarly communication landscape, and how different stakeholders are reacting to this.

Presentation:
The 'open' landscape; a publisher view
How does an open science environment impact the scholarly communications ecosystem? Lucy's presentation will highlight and examine some of the key challenges and opportunities which publishers are currently engaged with in relation to open initiatives. Lucy will share experiences and examples from Oxford University Press relating to open access and open data, as well as considering the wider 'open' landscape and its impact.