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The Nelson Memo: A tipping point for open access science in the US? Recording

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Overview

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently issued groundbreaking new guidance that publicly funded scientific knowledge be free from restrictive paywalls when published and be immediately available to all (the ‘Nelson memo’).

The three-year countdown to implementation has begun and will shape the future of open science and scholarly publishing. Stakeholders from all perspectives will be settling their views and framing their approach in the contest ahead for implementation.

This panel discussion will offer an early assessment of the OSTP’s guidance and its likely implications in practical and political terms.

It will bring a particular focus to the guidance’s implications for libraries and publishers; it will share faculty perspectives more broadly; and it will highlight our collective opportunities to shape implementation.

Amongst other things, the lessons learnt from similar large scale funder mandates such as Plan S in Europe will be offered, alongside broader challenges and opportunities ahead.

Why attend this session: The panel discussion should offer libraries a unique, firsthand assessment of the Nelson Memo from policy and publishing experts, with a mix of policy analysis, debate, and informed forecasting. It will bring insight to help shape the implementation of the guidance for the benefit of key communities.

Confirmed speakers

Daniel Sepulveda, Senior Vice President Platinum Advisors

Daniel is a policy expert and advisor with a focus on Congress and the Executive branch of government. He’s a former Ambassador in the Economic Bureau at the State Department in the Obama Administration, and has served as Senior Advisor to Senators John Kerry, Barrack Obama, and Barbara Boxer.

Danielle Cooper, Ithaka S+R

Danielle is Director for Libraries, Scholarly Communications and Museums at Ithaka S+R, where she oversees a team exploring how information practices are evolving in higher education and cultural organizations. Much of her work focuses on under-resourced academic communities.

Robert Kiley, Head of Strategy, cOAlition S (remote participation)

Robert is one of the main architects of Plan S, a funder led initiative to make publicly and privately funded research openly accessible. As Head of Strategy of cOAlition S he oversees the coordination of implementation by the 28 participating funding agencies and programmes. He’s the former Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust.

Moderator: Julia Kostova, Director of Publishing Development, Frontiers Inc.

Julia leads Frontiers’ editorial strategy in the US with the mission of supporting researchers, authors, and institution in making the transition to open access. She’s a seasoned scholarly publishing professional. Prior to joining Frontiers, she was VP for scholarly communications at Outsell Inc, and has held senior roles at Wiley and Oxford University Press.

Overview

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently issued groundbreaking new guidance that publicly funded scientific knowledge be free from restrictive paywalls when published and be immediately available to all (the ‘Nelson memo’).

The three-year countdown to implementation has begun and will shape the future of open science and scholarly publishing. Stakeholders from all perspectives will be settling their views and framing their approach in the contest ahead for implementation.

This panel discussion will offer an early assessment of the OSTP’s guidance and its likely implications in practical and political terms.

It will bring a particular focus to the guidance’s implications for libraries and publishers; it will share faculty perspectives more broadly; and it will highlight our collective opportunities to shape implementation.

Amongst other things, the lessons learnt from similar large scale funder mandates such as Plan S in Europe will be offered, alongside broader challenges and opportunities ahead.

Why attend this session: The panel discussion should offer libraries a unique, firsthand assessment of the Nelson Memo from policy and publishing experts, with a mix of policy analysis, debate, and informed forecasting. It will bring insight to help shape the implementation of the guidance for the benefit of key communities.

Confirmed speakers

Daniel Sepulveda, Senior Vice President Platinum Advisors

Daniel is a policy expert and advisor with a focus on Congress and the Executive branch of government. He’s a former Ambassador in the Economic Bureau at the State Department in the Obama Administration, and has served as Senior Advisor to Senators John Kerry, Barrack Obama, and Barbara Boxer.

Danielle Cooper, Ithaka S+R

Danielle is Director for Libraries, Scholarly Communications and Museums at Ithaka S+R, where she oversees a team exploring how information practices are evolving in higher education and cultural organizations. Much of her work focuses on under-resourced academic communities.

Robert Kiley, Head of Strategy, cOAlition S (remote participation)

Robert is one of the main architects of Plan S, a funder led initiative to make publicly and privately funded research openly accessible. As Head of Strategy of cOAlition S he oversees the coordination of implementation by the 28 participating funding agencies and programmes. He’s the former Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust.

Moderator: Julia Kostova, Director of Publishing Development, Frontiers Inc.

Julia leads Frontiers’ editorial strategy in the US with the mission of supporting researchers, authors, and institution in making the transition to open access. She’s a seasoned scholarly publishing professional. Prior to joining Frontiers, she was VP for scholarly communications at Outsell Inc, and has held senior roles at Wiley and Oxford University Press.

With more than 15 years’ experience, Dr Kostova is a seasoned professional of the scholarly publishing industry. Julia currently leads Frontiers’ editorial strategy in the US with the mission of supporting researchers, authors, and institution in making the transition to open access. Prior to that, she was VP for scholarly communications at Outsell Inc, the consulting and market research firm. Prior to that, she served as executive editor at Wiley’s Global Research division, where she managed a portfolio of journals published on behalf of leading scholarly societies in the life sciences. Wiley’s tenure was preceded by serving as senior acquisitions editor at Oxford University Press, where Dr Kostova oversaw the Press’s digital and scholarly reference publishing program in the humanities and social sciences. She holds a doctorate in French literature and has taught at Columbia University and Rutgers University. 

Serving as the chair of the Generations Fund Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee at the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Dr Kostova is dedicated to promoting and advancing best practices among the scholarly community. Having held a fellowship at Women in Power at 92Y in New York City, she is a strong advocate of cultivating and mentoring women executives and leaders. 

Robert Kiley is Head of Strategy at cOAlition S, working to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access.  

   

Prior to this he was Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust where he was responsible for developing and implementing their open research strategy.  

   

Over the past decade Robert has played a leading role in the implementation of Wellcome's open access policy and overseeing the development of the Europe PubMed Central repository. He also led the development - in partnership with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society - of eLife, the open-access research journal, launched in 2012.  

   

More recently he championed the work to create a new open publishing platform for Wellcome researchers – Wellcome Open Research.  

   

Robert is a qualified librarian, a Board member of Open Research Central and served for 6 years on the ORCID Board of Directors.