CISPC 2020 report
Open to discussion
After two days of CISPC 2020, the event closed with a panel talk rounding up the main themes. Here are some of the questions posed by moderator Tasha Mellins-Cohen (right) – and a selection of the panellists’ comments
How would you like to see scholarly communications bodies work together to create an ecosystem that works for everybody?
Alenka Prinçiç: This is a really complex question, and it will take time. Looking at the funding situation in the EU, with the funds that are available there are geographical limitations to openness, which is actually contradictory to what we are trying to achieve. We are missing chances to increase collaboration – how can we engage Asia, Africa, and bridge the gap to emerging countries? Citizen science is certainly something that can help to bridge the gap, but we need to practice what we preach a little more in terms of inclusivity. However, I believe that the younger generation are already there in many ways, and we just need to support them in that.
Rachel Bruce: We have as set of aligned policies emerging quite strongly in the global north, but perhaps they don’t really fit in with other environments. We commissioned research into developing countries to enable us to develop our policies an d perspectives, and it was fascinating to look at the results of that. You are to a certain extent limited in terms of levers, but perhaps certain conditions around policies should be less
stringent or more open. We need to look at different solutions around the world, such as the Diamond OA model in South America, and learn from them. But developing policies that apply around the world, and taken into account different situations around the world, is a very complex matter!
Barbie Keiser: Merely paying lip service to the Global South isn’t going to work. If we were to include local institutions, researchers, and particularly local publishers at the start of the conversation, we would have a much better product in the end.
We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of days about FAIR data, open data, and there have been frequent acknowledgements that researchers need to understand whether the data is trustworthy or useful. How would you like to see open methodologies embraced within your fields?
solutions around the world, such as the Diamond OA model in South America, and learn from them”
“We need to look at different
Ian Bruno: Think about this across the whole research cycle, I’ll make three points. As the start, when data starts to be generated, systems need to put in place to ensure that the right things are being captured at the time they are generated. We need to make it easy for that to happen. It’s also getting
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