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Conference "Open Access in Action"
Organized in cooperation with ZHAW, the conference “Open Access in Action” took place on October 19, 2020. Due to the challenging situation regarding Covid-19, it was conducted entirely on-line and it was attended by around 200 participants.
Under the title “Open Access in Action”, the conference explored different thematic areas of Implementation of Open Access thus providing an opportunity for the steadily growing Open Access and Open Science community in Switzerland to discuss them.
All the presentations given at this event are now available for you to download below. We are currently working on video recordings of the presentations and will upload them here as soon as possible.
Presentations & Videos
| Welcome and Introduction Jean-Marc Piveteau, Rector ZHAW and President of Delegation Open Science swissuniversities | Video |
| Keynote: Today’s Open Access challenges Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe | |
Results and lessons learned from the implementation of the action plan | Presentation Video |
Project highlights | |
| - SONAR, Miguel Moreira, Director at RERO | Presentation Video |
| - SwissCoss, Nicolas Sartori, Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at University Library Basel | Presentation Video |
| - NIE-INE, Roberta Padlina, Project planning, software development | Presentation Video |
Digital Lunchbreak-out sessions | |
| - «The unforgettable role of academic publishers in scholarship certification (DH)» (Claire Clivaz) | Presentation Video |
| - «Open Access run by and for professional scientists – Experiences with SciPost» (Jean-Sébastien Caux) | Presentation Video |
| - «Do-it-yourself OA - intercomverlag in Zurich» oder «Open Access selber machen - Erfahrungen aus dem intercom Verlag» (Tina Asmussen, Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner) | Presentation |
| Announcement of the Open Access call for projects Patrick Furrer, Programme coordinator, swissuniversities | Presentation Video |
Keynote: The future role of libraries in Open Access | Presentation Video |
| Panel Discussion: Challenges to come - Research assesment, alternative forms of publications, rewards, incentives | Video |
| Closing remarks Patrick Furrer, Programme coordinator, swissuniversities | Video |