OPERAS Conference: “Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Challenge”
OPERAS will hold its first conference on the topic of “Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Challenge” from 31 May – 1 June 2018 in Athens. The conference is organized by the National Documentation Centre (EKT/NHRF).
The scholarly communication landscape in Europe experiences rapid changes with the development of Open Science. These changes are impacting stakeholders across several countries differently. Among many challenges the academic community is facing, a prominent one is how to efficiently coordinate research activities from multiple disciplines, based on different skills and organized in several countries. The OPERAS research infrastructure approaches the coordination challenge in a transition to Open Science context, particularly for the humanities and social sciences.
The conference is addressing all stakeholders involved in open scholarly communication activities: researchers, librarians, publishers, digital infrastructure managers, editors, research policy makers, and funders.
Programme
Download the programme pdf: OPERAS Conference Programme 2018/05
31 May 2018 |
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9:00–9:30 | Registration |
9:30–10:00 | Welcome
Evi Sachini, Director of National Documenation Centre (EKT) Pierre Mounier, Coordinator of OPERAS and Deputy Director of OpenEdition |
10:00–10:30 | Keynote: Open Science in Europe
Victoria Tsoukala, Policy Officer, Unit Open Data Policies and Science Cloud, European Commission |
10:30–11:00 | Designing an Infrastructure for Open Scholarly Communication: OPERAS-D Findings
Pierre Mounier, Coordinator of OPERAS and Deputy Director of OpenEdition |
11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30–13:00 | Scholarly E-Infrastructures Across Europe: Models of Coordination
Moderator: Matthew Dovey, Head of e-Infrastructure Strategy, Jisc Coordination through market: Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN), Graham Stone (Jisc) Coordination through government: Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition), Michael Kaiser (MWS), Maciej Maryl (IBL PAN), Marina Angelaki (EKT) Coordination through community: Elena Giglia (University of Turin), Delfim Leão (Coimbra University), Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar) |
13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
14:00–15:30 | Poster Session
What‘s at stake? Presentation of the OPERAS working groups‘ white papers. |
15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00–17:00 | Funding Opportunities to Support Open Scholarly Communication
Moderator: Daša Radovič, International Cooperation Manager, OpenEdition Victoria Tsoukala (European Commission), Lars Bjørnshauge (DOAJ), Suzanne Dumouchel (Huma-Num) |
17:00–17:30 | Keynote: A View from America (Canada)
John Willinsky, Director of the Public Knowledge Project |
1 June 2018 |
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9:00–9:30 | Registration |
9:30–10:00 | Keynote: A View from America (Brazil)
Abel Packer, Director of SciELO |
10:00–11:30 | EOSC: The Vertical Coordination Challenge
Moderator: Suzanne Dumouchel, Huma-Num and DARIAH Program Implementation Officer Damien Lecarpentier (EUDAT), Laurent Romary (DARIAH), Matthew Dovey (EGI), Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE) |
11:30–12:00 | Coffee Break |
12:00–13:00 | Flipping Journals or Changing the System? The Need for Coordination
Moderator: Thomas Stäcker, Director of Darmstadt University Library Jacques Lafait (University of Jussieu, Jussieu Call), Dirk Pieper (University of Bielefeld, OA2020 Initiative), Saskia de Vries (FOAA) |
13:00–13:45 | Conclusion and next Conference |
13:45–15:00 | Lunch |
15:00–17:00 | OPERAS Partners Meeting (by invitation only) |
Registration
To register for the conference, please follow this link: bit.ly/2opwu9b. There is no registration fee.
Contact
For questions and further information, please contact Marina Angelaki, National Documentation Centre (EKT/NHRF): mangelaki[at]ekt.gr
Venue
The conference will take place in Athens at the National Hellenic Research Foundation/NHRF, 48 Vas. Konstantinou Av., GR-11635.
- Hotel Alexandros airotel.gr/en/Alexandros-Hotel-791.htm
- Hotel Athinais athinaishotel.gr/el/
- Hotel Stratos Vassilikos airotel.gr/en/Stratos-Vassilikos-793.htm
- Hotel Ilisia ilisiahotel.gr/index.php/gr/
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[…] HEINEMANN, E. OPERAS Conference: “Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Challenge” [online]. OPERAS – open access in the European research area through scholarly communication. 2018 [viewed 16 August 2018]. Available from: https://operas.hypotheses.org/1180 […]