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.

Keynote: Today’s Open Access challenges Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe	Presentation
Results and lessons learned from the implementation of the action plan Axel Marion, Secretary General of the HES-SO and former Head of Higher Education Policy, swissuniversities	Presentation
Project highlights
- SONAR, Miguel Moreira, Director at RERO	Presentation
- SwissCoss, Nicolas Sartori, Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at University Library Basel	Presentation
- NIE-INE, Roberta Padlina, Project planning, software development	Presentation
Digital Lunchbreak-out sessions
- «The unforgettable role of academic publishers in scholarship certification (DH)» (Claire Clivaz)	Presentation
- «Open Access run by and for professional scientists – Experiences with SciPost» (Jean-Sébastien Caux)	Presentation
- «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
Keynote: The future role of libraries in Open Access Jeannette Frey, Director BCU Lausanne and President of Liber	Presentation

swissuniversities, in cooperation with ZHAW, invites you to the conference ‘Open Access in Action’ to be held online on Monday, 19. October 2020.

About this Event

The conference will explore 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.

Agenda*

Hosts:

Micaela Crespo Quesada, Responsable Open Access, University of Lausanne
André Hoffmann, ZORA / Langzeitarchivierung / OpenAIRE2020 / HOPE, University of Zurich

10:00-10:10	Welcome and Introduction Jean-Marc Piveteau, Rector ZHAW and President of Delegation Open Science swissuniversities
10:10-10:50	Keynote: Today’s Open Access challenges Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe
10:50-11:30	Results and lessons learned from the implementation of the action plan Axel Marion, Secretary General of the HES-SO and former Head of Higher Education Policy, swissuniversities
11:30-12:10	Project highlights - SONAR, Miguel Moreira, Director at RERO - SwissCoss, Nicolas Sartori, Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at University Library Basel - NIE-INE, Roberta Padlina, Project planning, software development
12:10-13:30	Lunch break (at your free disposal) or Digital Lunch (12:30-13:00) with break-out sessions in separate virtual rooms: «The unforgettable role of academic publishers in scholarship certification (DH)» (Claire Clivaz) «Open Access run by and for professional scientists – Experiences with SciPost» (Jean-Sébastien Caux) «Do-it-yourself OA - intercomverlag in Zurich» oder «Open Access selber machen - Erfahrungen aus dem intercom Verlag» (Tina Asmussen, Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner)
13:30-14:15	Announcement of the Open Access call for projects Patrick Furrer, Programme coordinator, swissuniversities
14:15-15:00	Keynote: The future role of libraries in Open Access Jeannette Frey, Director BCU Lausanne and President of Liber
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-16:15	Panel discussion: Challenges to come - Research assesment, alternative forms of publications, rewards, incentives With Matthias Egger, President of the National Research Council of the SNSF Claire Clivaz, Head of Digital Humanities +, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Tina Asmussen, intercom Verlag Jean-Sébastien Caux, Professor of Physics, University of Amsterdam and Chairman of SciPost Foundation Michael Pascal Hengartner, ZHAW School of Applied Psychology Host: Daniel Wyler, Representative of swissuniversities at the EUA Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science
16:15-16:30	Closing remarks and end of the conference Patrick Furrer, Programme coordinator, swissuniversities

*Changes reserved

Participants

The conference will be of interest to institutional leaders, academic staff, researchers, students and policy makers interested in possibilities, conditions and perspectives of scientific publishing. This includes employees of libraries and other scientific infrastructure facilities as well as scientists and members of the scientific administration and other interested individuals.

General information

The conference is organized by swissuniversities and in cooperation with the ZHAW. It will be held in English and the participation is free of charge. The link to the event will be sent to all registered participants by e-mail a few days before the event. If you have any questions about the event, please e-mail us at open-access@swissuniversities.ch.

Webinar Video Disclaimer

Please note that this event will be recorded. The recordings will be used by swissuniversities for publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media or in any third party publication. By joining this webinar session, you automatically consent to such recordings.

Organisational committee

Elena Šimukovič, ZHAW
Patrick Furrer, swissuniversities
Anisa Graf, swissuniversities

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