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Innovation in open access publishing


A wide range of opinions were expressed at COASP 2016, writes Leyla Williams


In September, more than 160 delegates descended on Arlington, Virginia, for the 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP). They listened to presentations on a wide variety of issues in open access scholarly publishing. The program kicked off with a keynote


by Heather Joseph of SPARC. Joseph argued that it’s ‘not easy being open’, since, at its heart, the open access movement is a ‘social change movement’; while the growth of open access should be celebrated, its growth brings with it complexity. Progressing the open access movement is about more than just collective action, she argued; it’s about collective impact, which involves delivering on important conditions such as common agendas, progress measures, and communications. Delegates heard eight ‘lightning talks’. Sofie Wennström (Stockholm University Press), David Mellor (Center for Open Science), Rebecca Kennison (Open Access Network), John Dove (Paloma & Associates), Jason Colman (Michigan Publishing Services), Diana Marshall (BMC Journals), Sonia Barbosa (Dataverse), and Xenia van Edig (Copernicus Publications) talked on topics including: how to reward transparent and reproducible scholarship and improve author adherence to reporting guidelines; introducing initiatives from data sharing solutions; new models of open access, examining the book peer-review process; and thinking about interactive open access publishing in a historical context. The day included two panels: one on


technology and innovation, the other on non-APC (article processing charge) open access publishing. The first panel, featuring Alberto Pepe (Authorea), Dario


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Taraborelli (Wikimedia Foundation), and Katharina Volz (OccamzRazor), argued for open data to be put at the centre of open access debates, and for scholars to release citation data to Wikidata and use licenses supporting content mining. Discoverability, reusability and societal impact were all placed front-and-centre of the discussion. The second panel, which featured Kamran Naim (Stanford University Graduate School of Education), Caroline Edwards (Open Library of Humanities), and Arianna Becerril (Redalyc) reflected on the wide variety of open access publishing models, pointing to how publishing cooperatives offer an alternative mechanism for open access, how non-APC models are being built within the humanities, and how Latin American open access models differ from those in the global north.


“Discoverability, reusability and societal impact were all placed front-and-centre of the discussion”


The second day of the conference began with a keynote by Hilda Bastian (PubMed Health/PubMed Commons) on directions in pre- and post-publication peer review. Hilda pointed to the need for making communications within publishing more constructive and inclusionary, arguing that it’s harder to hide demographic biases in open peer review than in traditional peer review. Also


on the theme of inclusion was a panel on evaluation, featuring Melissa Gymrek (University of California San Diego), Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health & Science University and FORCE11) and Veronique Kiermer (PLOS Journals). The three panellists emphasised the importance of recognising the ecosystem behind a paper; publishers were called on to recognise the various critical contributions of multidisciplinary teams, and to commit to requiring ORCID IDs in workflows. Meredith Morovati (Dryad) gave the third


keynote, speaking on lessons learned (or not) toward open access within scholarly communication. A lack of open data means a lack of support for scholarship, and open data is not only about making data freely available, but also about the effective archiving of data, Morovati argued. The conference closed with a final


keynote from Jerry Sheehan (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), who returned to the discussion of policy at the beginning of the conference and gave an inspiring recent history of US access policies across federal agencies, pointing to the important progress made by the Obama administration in recent years. Under Obama, argued Sheehan, there has been a ‘sea change’ in the United States on the opening up of research, data and tech.


Open access, open science, and open data, he argued, are enablers as much as they are ends in themselves. Finally, the closing remarks of Catriona MacCallum (PLOS) drew together all the various stands and themes running through the conference: innovation and experimentation in open access publishing across nations and disciplines, policy differences and changes, and social justice in publishing. MacCallum pointed in particular to the


importance of inclusivity of participants across the spectrum of non-profit and commercial publishers, the strides made in open access publishing in the way of gender diversity (with 18 women speakers at COASP 2016), and the need to evaluate researchers on the basis of their contribution to society.


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