Update: The Ask Me Anything post with questions and panelist responses is now up! Click here to read it.
Every year, International Open Access Week is celebrated in October and is marked by a variety of activities. This year, it will be held from October 25 through 31.
Open Access Week is a scholarly communications event during which several interesting and insightful discussions on open access are hosted both offline and online. R Discovery—an AI-based literature-search app developed by Cactus Communications—is happy to invite you to participate in an AMA (Ask Me Anything), where you can send us any questions on open access until Oct 22, and we will have a panel of experts share written responses to them. The questions as well as panelist responses will be published in a post on Editage Insights on Oct 28.
The levels of awareness related to open access and the extent of adoption of the open access publishing model vary widely across regions. In some countries, many researchers actively publish their research in open access journals, whereas in others, researchers either lack sufficient knowledge or are skeptical about benefits of this model.1 Awareness and adoption can also vary by tenure, with senior researchers often being more familiar and comfortable with open access.
What about you?
Is there anything you’ve always wanted to understand better about open access but were not sure whom to ask?
Would you like to know more about current trends in open access publishing?
Do you often wonder what factors you need to consider when deciding to publish open access?
If yes, you now have an excellent opportunity to have your queries answered! This Open Access Week, we bring you an R Discovery–powered AMA focusing only on open access.
The Ask Me Anything post with questions and panelist responses is now up! Click here to read it.
Our panelists
Dr. Caroline Sutton
Dr. Caroline Sutton is Director of Open Research at Taylor & Francis. Caroline was one of the founding members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), where she served on the Board until September 2021. Since 2016 she has served on numerous boards and advisory committees within the Open Access and Open Research space, including Chair and member of the Board of Directors of Dryad and as Director with IS4OA (the parent organisation housing the DOAJ), and the Scientific Advisory Board of CESSDA. She was one of the early adopters of open access publishing, having co-founded Co-Action Publishing in 2016, which is now a part of the Taylor & Francis family.
Vrushali Dandawate
Vrushali is Head Librarian at AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India, and she holds a Ph.D. degree from Reva University, Bangalore, India. Her research topic is “Open Access E -Resources Development in Asia: A Study.” Vrushali was the winner of the ALCTS Online Course Grant for Library Professionals from Developing Countries in 2014 and the INASP open access week competition in both 2015 and 2016. She was invited to OpenCon 2017 in Berlin, Germany, and subsequently worked as a member of the organizing committee for OpenCon 2018 in Toronto, Canada. She also served as an advisory committee member for Open Access Week 2018–2019. She has been selected as an advisory committee member of OpenDOAR and conference committee member of the FORCE2021 Conference, and she is DOAJ ambassador for India.
Andrew Stammer
Andrew Stammer is Director of CSIRO Publishing, the editorially independent publisher owned by Australia’s science research agency, the CSIRO. He serves on the Boards of the Australian Publishers Association and of STM the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers. Previously, he has sold, marketed and commissioned books for various multi-national publishers. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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Reference
- How academics across the globe perceive open access: Insights from a large-scale survey. Editage Insights https://www.editage.com/insights/how-academics-across-the-globe-perceive-open-access-insights-from-a-large-scale-survey (2018).
