Coalition Publica to host Open Access Week webinar: Advancing research visibility through National Portals
The panel discussion will be hosted in English, while materials will be released in both English and French.
Advancing Research Visibility through National Portals: Insights from Spearheading Institutions
Join the Public Knowledge Project and Érudit as they celebrate 25 years by bringing you timely programming on pivotal topics in scholarly communications and publishing.
On October 26, during Open Access Week, join panelists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden to discuss national portals – collections of journals that are published within a geographic location that combine their metadata, and sometimes content, in a single interface.
This panel discussion brings together representatives from nascent and mature national portal projects to shed light on the benefits, challenges, and strategies for effectively establishing and maintaining these critical platforms.
Details
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 (OA Week)
Time: 8 AM – 9:30 AM PDT / 4 PM – 5:30 PM IST BST / 5 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
Virtual Event
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MODERATOR
Mark Huskisson, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Mark Huskisson is the Publishing Specialist at PKP and the co-chair of the Assembly of the Commons at OPERAS. Beginning his career at Cambridge University Press and working at the turbulent confluence of emerging publishing technologies and evolving business models for over thirty years.
PANELISTS
Jeanette Hatherill, Coalition Publica
Jeanette Hatherill is a Community Development Consultant with Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and PKP to develop a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research to support sustainable open access in Canada.
Jesper Boserup Thestrup, Royal Danish Library
Jesper Boserup Thestrup is a member of the team, which manages tidsskrift.dk and ebooks.au.dk. Tidsskrift.dk is the Danish National OA platform. Ebooks.au.dk is used to publish material written by researchers from Aarhus University. The team supports editors, authors, reviewers and readers so that they can use the platform and maintain both the OJS-server and the OMP-server.
Antti-Jussi Nygård, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Antti-Jussi Nygård works as a coordinator at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies where he is responsible for managing the Journal.fi and Edition.fi platforms and helping the editors with their daily work with OJS and OMP. He also participates in the development work of the applications.
Ruth Hegarty, Publish OA, Ireland
Ruth Hegarty is Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s publishing house. She is the project lead of PublishOA.ie. The project’s aim is to conduct a feasibility study into creating an all-island Diamond Open Access publishing platform for Ireland.
Jan Willem Wijnen, Open Journals Netherlands
Jan Willem Wijnen manages Openjournals.nl, the Netherlands national diamond open access platform for journals. It provides services to university presses and independent editorial boards, now hosting 30 journals. Besides providing the technical infrastructure, Openjournals.nl also develops a sustainable organization and financial model for publication of community-owned journals.
Ramana Fragola, Publicera (National Library of Sweden)
Publicera is the national platform for open access Swedish scholarly journals. It was launched in summer 2021, and by the end of 2023, it will host approximately 30 journals (19 are live as of August 2023). Ramana Fragola manages the platform, working with journal editors through the onboarding process and providing support on questions about OJS and publishing practices.
Join us in this panel discussion to learn from the forerunners of national portal projects as they outline best practices, success stories, and lessons learned in their journey to elevate local research interests.
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