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Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs

Nov 11 at 10am CST  ·  University of Kansas Open Access

The Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs symposium will consider current models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive, and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem. The symposium will take place at the University of Kansas on November 17-18.

Date

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Time

Nov 11 at 10am CST


The University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network (a project of K|N Consultants), Allen Press, and SPARC are co-sponsoring an international symposium, “Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs,” in Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday and Friday, November 17-18. The symposium will consider current models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive, and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem.

The symposium will provide a public, live-streamed session during which internationally respected scholars, publishers, university librarians, and executives from foundations and organizations will address advanced questions and problems in the open access movement. Additional meetings will explore the future of “openness” in scholarly publishing, responding to and furthering discussions from last December’s Berlin 12 Open Access invitational conference, which focused on “flipping” the current subscription model of scholarly publishing to one that provides free access to readers paid for by article-processing charges from authors or their institutions.

Kevin L. Smith, dean of KU Libraries, will moderate the live-streamed conversation on Thursday, November 17, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. By streaming part of the symposium, the organizers hope to engage a broad international audience in a lively discussion. During the broadcast, panelists will describe their vision for an open access future. Panelists, local respondents, and the global viewing audience will be able to engage together in thought-provoking dialog to address one of the most fundamental questions in the open access movement currently: To what extent can a global academic community create an open access publishing system that is without costs to readers or authors. Watch the livestream and participate via Twitter using #KUOASymp16.

The following international group of participants will be joining the symposium at KU: Juan Pablo Alperin, Simon Fraser University; Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library; Raym Crow, SPARC; Mark Edington, Amherst College Press; Martin Eve, University of London / Open Library of the Humanities; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Modern Language Association of America; Eve Gray, Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme; Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal; Lorraine Haricombe, University of Texas - Austin Libraries; Neil Jacobs, JISC; Heather Joseph, SPARC; Rebecca Kennison, K|N Consultants / Open Access Network; Mary Rose Muccie, Temple University Press; Williams Nwagwu, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa; Charlotte Roh, University of San Francisco; Ralf Schimmer, Max Planck Institute; Kathleen Shearer, COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories); Dave Shulenburger, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities; and John Willinsky, Stanford University.

Participants from KU will include faculty members Marc L. Greenberg, Director of the School of Language, Literatures, & Cultures and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Town Peterson, University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Representing the Libraries will be Kevin L. Smith, Dean of Libraries; Ada Emmett, Librarian and Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright; Brian Rosenblum, Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian; Josh Bolick, Scholarly Communication Librarian; and Musa Olaka, Associate Librarian for African, Global, and International Studies.

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