Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and founding director of the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).

Chris has extensive experience promoting equitable and open scholarship, and is an advocate for the role of libraries in promoting social justice and democracy. Chris co-chaired the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries and the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, and is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science.

Rachel Bruce is Head of Open Research at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Rachel has worked in research policy and digital scholarship, including infrastructure development, across national organisations including the former Higher Education Funding Council, Jisc and the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She has overseen national and international programmes, that develop digital infrastructure for information and scholarship that have resulted in long-term sustainable services. She is an expert in open science and has been an expert adviser to the European Commission and was the UK representative on the European Open Science Cloud Governance Board.

Toby, Publisher, Policy Commons and Co-Founder of Coherent Digital, has 35+ years experience in scholarly, policy and professional publishing. Previously, he held a variety of senior roles with OECD Publishing and Elsevier Science. Besides the formal stuff, Toby has wrestled with data publishing and is now trying to tame grey literature. He is a regular speaker at publishing and librarian events in Europe and North America. He serves as expert advisor to the Open Research Community. Previously, he was a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Board and Chair of ALPSP. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9601-9130 https://twitter.com/tobyabgreen .

James Barnett has been a Research Skills Advisor for Library Services at the University of Birmingham since 2019, having previously worked as an Academic Liaison Librarian at Coventry University. In his role within the Research Skills Team, James provides the university’s research community with training and one-to-one support on topics such as Literature Searching, Reference Management, Open Research and Research Metrics.

Karen is the Senior Research Developer at Portico, a digital preservation archive for scholarly content. Her role is to identify current and emerging technology issues relevant to the service’s operations and mission, as well as discover, evaluate, develop, and implement tools to enhance the preservation service. Karen previously worked as the Knowledge Systems Librarian at NYU Health Sciences Libraries where she specialized in digital archives and research data management services, and as a Software Engineer for the Digital Research and Curation Center at Johns Hopkins University Libraries. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.

Oxentia is Oxford’s global innovation consultancy. As Principal Consultant, Hamish works with Higher Education and government clients, delivering consultancy, strategy development and training on knowledge exchange and commercialisation (KEC) and innovation management. He has a particular interest in innovation ecosystems and the role of universities in driving inclusive regional growth.

Before joining Oxentia in 2021, Hamish was the Head of Data & Evidence at Research England, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He was responsible for creating England’s first Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF), as well as managing £250m per annum of KE funding, and related policy areas. In his spare time, he upcycles bit of old aircraft into furniture

Professor Dame Sue Black is Pro Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University. She is President elect of St. John’s College, Oxford and a cross bench peer as Baroness Black of Strome. She is President, Fellow and Trustee of the Royal Anthropological Institute which is the professional body for her discipline of Forensic Anthropology for which she was awarded and OBE in 2001 and a DBE in 2016. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Royal Society of Biology.

Josh joined University of Nottingham Libraries as Associate Director for Research in November 2021. He works within and beyond the institution to develop libraries’ role as a research service provider, partner, and pioneer. He leads collaborative and enterprising teams who enable open research environments which maximise the reach, impact, and integrity of research.

Prior to joining Nottingham, Josh held several roles at Lancaster University including Library Aide, Learning Zone Student Advisor, Information Assistant, Research Data Manager, and most recently, Research and Scholarly Communications Manager.

Josh promotes equality, diversity and inclusion leading to productive, healthy, and resilient cultures and communities.

Adam Der is a member of the licence management team of the Max Planck Digital Library, where his main responsibilities are in publisher negotiations to advance the open access transition in scholarly publishing. In this role he is involved in a broad range of strategic activities, including data analyses and financial modelling. He is an expert advisor on data analytics and workflows in the ESAC Initiative, a global community of practice of libraries and consortia promoting efficiencies and standards around the negotiation and implementation of transformative and open access publishing agreements, and contributes to a variety of community and industry efforts such as the OA Switchboard. Prior to his role at MPDL, he served as Head of Development of the Hungarian EISZ Consortium.

Jacqueline Barlow has held the position of Open Access Officer at the University of Winchester since September 2017. She is the only dedicated Open Access specialist at the University, and is responsible for maintaining the institutional repository in addition to promoting Open Access and Open Research and ensuring compliance with the relevant policies.

Phill Hall has worked in the information industry for approximately 15 years, spanning areas of library content, library automation, digital preservation, research funding, research metrics, research reproducibility, learning management systems, and, more recently, library engagement analytics.

In his current role with EBSCO, Phill is Global Sales for Panorama library and campus analytics, drawing on his breadth of experience to assist libraries in uncovering a more comprehensive view of library engagement.

Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.

Ros Pyne is Global Director, Research and Open Access at Bloomsbury Academic. She has worked in open access policy and strategy roles for over a decade and has a particular interest in bringing OA to long-form scholarship and to the humanities. Ros sits on the advisory boards for the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit and the Mellon-funded Book Analytics Dashboard Project and is co-author of several papers on open access books.

Alicia Wise is Executive Director of CLOCKSS, a community of research libraries and academic publishers working together to ensure the long-term preservation of the scholarly record. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology and focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

Judith Fraenkel is Director of Product Management at Ex Libris focusing on Resource Sharing solutions. Since joining the company in 1999, Judith has filled various positions in the areas of technology, content management, and customer support. A key focus of her current role is leading efforts to integrate Controlled Digital Lending capabilities into Ex Libris’ products. She also leads strategy and programs that enhance the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity commitment of Ex Libris.

Phil will deliver this presentation on the first day of his retirement. For the last eighteen years, he has been Director of Libraries, Museums and Galleries at the University of Liverpool. Most of his previous experience was at new universities – Leeds Polytechnic, Hatfield Polytechnic, Liverpool JMU, and the University of Huddersfield, where he managed a converged library and computing service. He was Chair of RLUK for two years and a member of the Finch group on Open Access. He was one of the founder members of the N8+ initiative and developed much of the methodology which underlies it.

Karen has worked at Jisc since 2017 and having been involved with several products in the Open Research portfolio she now manages Sherpa Services, leading the development and evolution of these products and services. A qualified Library professional, she has a background in H.E. libraries, repository management, Open Access advocacy and service/product management.

Robyn Price is responsible for bibliometric analysis and education at Imperial. She has established a bibliometric service to deliver responsible metrics support to staff and students. She is interested in equity in scholarly communications and research, alternative metrics, grey literature and open access. Previously, Robyn worked in the editorial teams of open access and subscription journals.

After many years at ProQuest, Adam recently moved to Newsbank. Before working in publishing, Adam taught literature and creative writing at the University of Utah, where he earned a PhD in English. He also has a BA in social anthropology and linguistics from Cambridge University (Caius).

Adam enjoys running, watching football, and making home movies. This year, for the first time in two decades (!), he wrote a play, which is part domestic drama and part ghost story.

Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe, where she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years of international experience working on Open Access, Open Science, Open Culture and Open Education with many leading universities worldwide from over 20 countries. Research and knowledge exchange are her vehicles to inform, connect and advocate for change in these areas: to increase international, national and regional policy-making and practice in Europe. Vanessa is also exploring how to concretely create – and above all sustain – a more equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse open science ecosystem.

Jean-Francois Lutz works at the Université de Lorraine libraries where he is head of research support services. He has a special interest in the question of open science infrastructure funding and works on this issue as a SCOSS board member on behalf of the French ministry of Higher Education and Research and as board member of the French National Open Science Fund.

Fabian Felder spent the last four and a half years working as an Open Access specialist at the Consortium of Swiss Academic libraries. The position was co-financed by swissuniversities to coordinate national efforts for Open Access solutions with publishers and other service providers. The national project SwissCOSS and the subsequent establishment of services included in SCOSS funding calls as consortium products is one of his proudest achievements. Since October 2021, he works as the group leader for E-Resources & IT Services at the Lib4RI.

Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics and Founder of Mellins-Cohen Consulting, joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key industry initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP and STM. In 2020 she started consulting in response to requests for help in developing and implementing OA business models in not-for-profit groups. In 2022 she stepped up from volunteer to Director at COUNTER Metrics, the standard for usage metrics, alongside her consulting work.

As Head of Collections and Archives at Edge Hill University, Anna França leads the team dedicated to managing and developing the library collections and University Archive. Prior to joining Edge Hill, she held roles at King’s College London and has almost 18 years’ experience in the academic library sector. Anna is interested in the role that libraries can play in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups and chairs the USKG Education and Events sub-committee.

Until recently, Liam managed research support in Library and Learning Services at Edge Hill University. At Essex, he leads the Academic and Research Services team in Library and Cultural Services; this includes academic liaison and information literacy team and also research services. He is a member of the LIS-Bibliometrics Committee and is a Trustee of UKSG..

Ken gained his Master’s degree from the Information Science Department at City University in London. He is also an alumnus of the Warwick University Business Innovation and Growth Programme. He worked as a librarian before spending over 20 years in the library technology business. He set up his consulting business in 2007 to help make libraries and archives more effective. He has presented widely in the UK and internationally. Ken has published a number of open access briefing papers on library technology issues and runs Higher Education Library Technology -an open and free community resource.

Gaynor is committed to develolping sustainable and fair routes enabling authors the choice of not for profit journals in which to publish their research.

Jeremy is the Director of Library and University Collections at the University of Edinburgh. A music graduate, he started his professional library career as a music librarian before moving into a technical services management. Jeremy joined the University of Edinburgh in April 2015.

As Director, Jeremy is responsible for ensuring the professional management of and access to the University’s Library and Museum collections, both physical and digital.

Jeremy has a long-standing interest in the procurement and licensing of content. He is currently a member of the Research Libraries UK Board and Chair of the Coimbra Group Heritage Working Group.

Mira Buist-Zhuk is an academic information specialist at the University of Groningen Library (Netherlands). She leads the Open Education pillar of the University’s Open Science programme and is actively engaged in building services and infrastructure to support teachers in the area of open educational resources, open textbook publishing, and related copyright issues. Mira gained her academic background and professional experience in the fields of International Relations, Political Science, and Communications. She takes an active interest in open education and open science developments and is driven by the values of access to education, social justice, and sustainable development.

Margreet Nieborg is project manager and publishing consultant at the University of Groningen Press (UGP). UGP is part of the University Library. Margreet is an educationalist and has led various projects within the University Library, including setting up a University Press in 2017. UGP is an example of a new university press which currently hosts journals, books and series. Margreet thinks that with the rise of new university presses new publishing models will rise and can, in a modest way, activily support open access.

A graduate of UCL, Rita Pinhasi joined Vienna University Library in 2017, where she has been involved in the negotiations of various institutional and national Open Access publishing agreements, from data analysis through workflows to licensing. Previously she worked for regional and national consortia in Ireland, most recently as the manager of the IReL consortium, as well as a medical library in London.

Brigitte Kromp is the Head of the Austrian Central Library for Physics and the Department of Consortia Management at the Vienna University Library. She acts as an expert for Open Access within the framework of the Austrian Academic Consortium (KEMÖ ) and has been involved in the negotiation of consortium deals with Open Access components. She is a member of several international working groups dealing with acquisition issues and represents Austria in the High-Level Group on Big Deals at the European University Association.
Brigitte holds a degree in mathematics and physics and completed a qualification in librarianship during her professional career.

Lothar Hölbling studied history and numismatics at the University of Vienna. He also finished the Library and Information Studies formation at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. He subsequently worked in different positions as historian, archivist, librarian and data analyst in the private sector (Vienna, Hong Kong) and in the public sector (University of Vienna, Museum of Military History Vienna, New York University).
From 2016 to 2020 Mr. Hölbling was employed as data analyst in the nationwide Austrian Open Access-Initiative AT2OA (Austrian Transition to Open Access). His main tasks were data acquisition, data processing and data analysis regarding the scientific publication output of all Austrian State Universities. Since 2021 Mr. Hölbling is employed in the follow-up project AT2OA² (Austrian Transition to Open Access Two) as data analyst and project manager.

Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe, where she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years of international experience working on Open Access, Open Science, Open Culture and Open Education with many leading universities worldwide from over 20 countries. Research and knowledge exchange are her vehicles to inform, connect and advocate for change in these areas: to increase international, national and regional policy-making and practice in Europe. Vanessa is also exploring how to concretely create – and above all sustain – a more equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse open science ecosystem.

Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

Jeroen Sondervan has been involved in open access and open science for the past fifteen years. From the publishing world (e.g. at Amsterdam University Press and Brill), he has gained initial experience with open access.

He is a member of the Knowledge Exchange Open Access Group, the Dutch library consortium OA working group and editor of the national platform openaccess.nl.

In 2015, Jeroen started working as an open access publishing consultant at the Utrecht University Library. In 2019, he joined Utrecht University as open access programme leader within the Open Science Programme. In this role, with the other themes of the Open Science Programme (recognition and rewards, public engagement, FAIR data/software and open education), he has driven and facilitated the culture change towards open science.

In Open Science NL, Jeroen fulfils the role of programme leader open scholarly communication. He will focus on open access, but will also broaden his scope to include open peer review, open research information and new ways of scholarly publishing.

Dr Rupert Gatti is a Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and a co-founder and director of Open Book Publishers. He is one of the founders of the OABN, where he led the ‘voices’ session on distribution and metadata. Rupert is also one of the work package leads within the COPIM Project developing Thoth, an open metadata and distribution service for OA books.

Helen is a Licensing portfolio specialist for research content at Jisc. She leads a team working to deliver agreements that meet the requirements of UK universities, achieve savings and support the transition to open access. Helen’s background is in academic libraries and in previous roles she oversaw services providing Open Access and Research Data Management support and publishing advice.

Thomas Kaarsted is Deputy Library Director and daily manager of SDU Citizen Science. Originally a historian and a master of public governance he has been working with publishing and communication before moving into Citizen Science and Open Science. He is a member of the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.

Anne Kathrine Overgaard is Head of External projects at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. Together with Thomas Kaarsted she co-founded in 2017 the Citizen Science Network and in 2021 the Citizen Science Knowledge Centre at SDU. She is a committed Citizen Science advocate and has been project manager for a long range of Citizen Science projects especially within Health Sciences.

Kirsty Wallis is the Head of Research Liaison at UCL and is responsible for managing a number of teams with research support responsibilities, including RDM and Bibliometrics. She also runs the day-to-day operations of the UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship and has an active role in two EU-funded Citizen Science research projects. Outside of UCL, Kirsty is co-champion of the ARMA Open Research Special Interest Group, as well as working with RLUK to launch the upcoming Open Leadership Network.

Michael Levine-Clark is Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, where he has worked in various positions since 1999. He serves in leadership roles in multiple consortia and is the chair of the OCLC Americas Regional Council. As a member of many publisher and vendor library advisory boards, he provides guidance about library and higher education trends. For his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition models, he received the 2015 Harrasowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. He is widely published and has been invited to speak on six continents about academic library collections and scholarly communication issues.

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX, Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, Charleston Library Conference, STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Council of Science Editors, NISO Transfer Standing Committee, and NASIG Digital Preservation Committee. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

John McDonald is the Director of Product Management for Analytics & Assessment at EBSCO Information Services. He leads the development of products that help libraries and librarians to better understand their users, their usage, and the value of their collections & services. Prior to EBSCO, John was AUL for Collections at the University of Southern California Libraries, the CIO & Library Director for the Claremont Colleges and Acquisitions Librarian at Caltech. In his free time he enjoys baseball, brewing beer, making fermented hot sauces, and entertaining his teenager and their very big & sweet dog.

Tom Mosterd is the Community Manager for DOAB & OAPEN. His primary focus is on working with the growing library community on further improving and developing OAPEN and its services, connecting these with the needs of the library community. Next to this, Tom is one of three coordinators of the Open Access Books Network – an open network for anyone interested in open access books – organising events, creating resources, advocating for open access books and building a thriving community around open access books.

Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

Peter Barr leads a team with responsibility for library acquisitions and collection management at the University of Sheffield. He was appointed to oversee the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content strategy, part of which has now become the Collections Transformation Plan. His professional interest lies in these areas, particularly the role libraries can play in the transformation of scholarly publishing towards a more ethical, non-commercial and community owned future.

Neil is the Director of Discovery and Content Services at Jisc, an organization that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He has strategic responsibility for developing products and maintaining services that enable universities and colleges to acquire, create, manage, find and access resources for teaching, learning and research. Neil has managed and led national level initiatives focused on the digital humanities, digital preservation, and data infrastructure services for libraries.

Paul Cavanagh is Senior Librarian, Resource Acquisitions at University of Nottingham Libraries, with responsibility for purchasing and providing access to resources in print and electronic formats including books, journals, scans and digitisations and other materials. Paul has extensive experience of content and collection management and subject librarianship within HE and FE libraries.

Paul’s recent focus has been on managing transitional Read and Publish agreements with colleagues from UoN Libraries’ Research Support team. His professional interests include evidence based decision making in acquisitions, copyright guidance and improving access to resources and accessible formats for users.

Julie Baldwin has been working in Libraries for the last 10 years, firstly in Customer Services roles and then moving into Research Support after she’d qualified from Sheffield with her MA in Librarianship in 2017. She is currently a Research Librarian within the University of Nottingham Libraries’ Research Support Team. Within the team, her particular focuses include open access, research data management and copyright.

Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Open Access Publishing Officer at the University of Edinburgh, functioning within Library and University Collections on the Scholarly Communications Team. She is responsible for managing Edinburgh Diamond: an open access hosting service which offers hosting, technical support, preservation, indexing, and publishing guidance to staff and students who wish to publish diamond open access books and journals. Rebecca is also the Statistician/Bibliometrician for the Journal of Information Literacy. In her spare time she loves nothing more than reading Gothic literature, watching horror films and crushing her enemies at board games.

Jill Emery is the Collection Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 20 years of academic library experience. She has held leadership positions in ALA ALCTS, ER&L, and NASIG. She serves on the Project COUNTER Executive Committee. Jill is a member of The Charleston Advisor editorial board and is the columnist of “Heard on the Net,” and is on the editorial board for Insights: the UKSG journal. Her co-authored book is: Techniques of Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open.

Alasdair MacDonald is Metadata Co-ordinator at Edinburgh University Library, a post he has held since 2014. He has worked as a librarian for over 23 years, specialising in metadata since 2000. He has a long standing interest in identifying creator and contributor entities across different platforms and catalogues. Alasdair is currently the Vice Chair of the Metadata and Discovery Group, Scotland and a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Governing Board. He has previously worked at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland

Anke de Looper is an acquisition editor and strategy officer e-content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Nina Schönfelder holds a PhD in Economics and is an expert on open-access publishing. She has been working in various projects at the Bielefeld University Library: At the “National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE”, she developed financial and business models for open-access publishing. Currently, she develops an online-tool that shall help researchers to find the best open-access publishing venue for their manuscript within the project “open-access.network”.

Marten Stavenga is a Strategy Officer e-Content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

I’m Jisc’s product manager for Octopus, an innovative research platform which aims to create a new primary research record for the scientific community.

I started my career in academic publishing, working with an international cohort of researchers to deliver projects ranging from archaeology monographs to digitised primary source collections.
Since then, I’ve held various roles across Jisc focused on service development and sector insight, working closely with our university, college and public sector partners.

Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.

Alicia Wise is Executive Director of CLOCKSS, a community of research libraries and academic publishers working together to ensure the long-term preservation of the scholarly record. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology and focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

Peter Barr leads a team with responsibility for library acquisitions and collection management at the University of Sheffield. He was appointed to oversee the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content strategy, part of which has now become the Collections Transformation Plan. His professional interest lies in these areas, particularly the role libraries can play in the transformation of scholarly publishing towards a more ethical, non-commercial and community owned future.

Neil is the Director of Discovery and Content Services at Jisc, an organization that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He has strategic responsibility for developing products and maintaining services that enable universities and colleges to acquire, create, manage, find and access resources for teaching, learning and research. Neil has managed and led national level initiatives focused on the digital humanities, digital preservation, and data infrastructure services for libraries.

Paul Cavanagh is Senior Librarian, Resource Acquisitions at University of Nottingham Libraries, with responsibility for purchasing and providing access to resources in print and electronic formats including books, journals, scans and digitisations and other materials. Paul has extensive experience of content and collection management and subject librarianship within HE and FE libraries.

Paul’s recent focus has been on managing transitional Read and Publish agreements with colleagues from UoN Libraries’ Research Support team. His professional interests include evidence based decision making in acquisitions, copyright guidance and improving access to resources and accessible formats for users.

Julie Baldwin has been working in Libraries for the last 10 years, firstly in Customer Services roles and then moving into Research Support after she’d qualified from Sheffield with her MA in Librarianship in 2017. She is currently a Research Librarian within the University of Nottingham Libraries’ Research Support Team. Within the team, her particular focuses include open access, research data management and copyright.

Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Open Access Publishing Officer at the University of Edinburgh, functioning within Library and University Collections on the Scholarly Communications Team. She is responsible for managing Edinburgh Diamond: an open access hosting service which offers hosting, technical support, preservation, indexing, and publishing guidance to staff and students who wish to publish diamond open access books and journals. Rebecca is also the Statistician/Bibliometrician for the Journal of Information Literacy. In her spare time she loves nothing more than reading Gothic literature, watching horror films and crushing her enemies at board games.

Jill Emery is the Collection Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 20 years of academic library experience. She has held leadership positions in ALA ALCTS, ER&L, and NASIG. She serves on the Project COUNTER Executive Committee. Jill is a member of The Charleston Advisor editorial board and is the columnist of “Heard on the Net,” and is on the editorial board for Insights: the UKSG journal. Her co-authored book is: Techniques of Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open.

Alasdair MacDonald is Metadata Co-ordinator at Edinburgh University Library, a post he has held since 2014. He has worked as a librarian for over 23 years, specialising in metadata since 2000. He has a long standing interest in identifying creator and contributor entities across different platforms and catalogues. Alasdair is currently the Vice Chair of the Metadata and Discovery Group, Scotland and a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Governing Board. He has previously worked at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland

Anke de Looper is an acquisition editor and strategy officer e-content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Nina Schönfelder holds a PhD in Economics and is an expert on open-access publishing. She has been working in various projects at the Bielefeld University Library: At the “National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE”, she developed financial and business models for open-access publishing. Currently, she develops an online-tool that shall help researchers to find the best open-access publishing venue for their manuscript within the project “open-access.network”.

Marten Stavenga is a Strategy Officer e-Content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

I’m Jisc’s product manager for Octopus, an innovative research platform which aims to create a new primary research record for the scientific community.

I started my career in academic publishing, working with an international cohort of researchers to deliver projects ranging from archaeology monographs to digitised primary source collections.
Since then, I’ve held various roles across Jisc focused on service development and sector insight, working closely with our university, college and public sector partners.

Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.