An Introduction to open access 2024 - online seminar

Phil is an information professional committed to helping open up access to research publication and to the results of research globally. Working for Jisc and in collaboration with HE institutions, funders and other consortia, Phil negotiates agreements with publishers that meet the UK HE sector's requirements. With extensive experience in the public and higher education library sector both on the engagement and content sides, Phil is a qualified and chartered librarian (revalidated in 2023) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with an MBA with distinction focused on leadership in HE.

Colleen Campbell is strategic advisor for external engagement at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). There she coordinates two open access initiatives: the Open Access 2020 Initiative, a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that are repurposing their investments in subscriptions to support open access publishing, and the ESAC Initiative, a library community of practice building capacities around transformative and open access publishing agreements. She is a member of the LIBER Open Access Working Group and serves on the Managing Board of EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries.
@oa2020ini; @ColleenCampbe11

Tom Grady is a Work Package Lead on the Copim Open Book Futures project, where he runs the Opening the Future revenue model for open access books. Prior to joining Copim, Tom worked in many areas of libraries, academic and public, and was a founding team member of the UK's first jointly-run and library-led open access publisher, White Rose University Press. He can be found on X/Twitter (while it still exists) @scholtom.

Lucy Barnes is Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers, a leading non-profit, scholar-led Open Access book publisher based in Cambridge, UK. She also works on outreach for the Copim Open Book Futures project and is on the board of the ScholarLed collective. She coordinates the Open Access Books Network (oabooksnetwork.org) in collaboration with OAPEN, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe, and she is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit. She is also part of the PALOMERA project on OA book policy. You can find her on Twitter @alittleroad.

Emma is Executive Editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry with responsibility for the Energy and Environment Gold Open Access journals.

As Executive Editor she leads the Editorial team responsible for the operational and strategic aspects of the journals, working closely with Editorial Boards and the wider research community. A big part of her job is to uphold excellent standards and ensure that the journals deliver the quality, impact and timeliness that RSC journals are well-known for. Emma has over 14 years’ experience within the STM publishing industry and has worked on a variety of different journals during this time.

Kelly Woods has 7 years experience working in the open access publishing industry. She began with an internship at the Royal Society, working across some of the oldest academic journals in the world as well as some of the newest, by assisting with Open biology recently after its launch. This internship gave her the passion for open access publishing. She then worked at Frontiers for 4 years, again working across several titles including Frontiers in Genetics and Frontiers in Psychiatry, two of the largest journals in the portfolio.

In 2021 she joined F1000 as to lead Open Research Europe, the publishing platform launched in collaboration with the European Commission. She still manages this platform now but also has oversight of the other publishing platform F1000 works on with funders such as the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation