On behalf of the OSI2016 organizing committee, thank you, and welcome! We’re honored and excited that you will be participating in the inaugural conference of the global Open Scholarship Initiative. As you know, OSI is the first effort of its kind—“long overdue” in the words of one delegate, and “a potential game changer” in the words of another. We don’t want to elevate expectations unreasonably, but it’s worth noting that just by agreeing to participate, you and the other delegates in this fascinating group have already notched an important victory.
The next step will be for this group to figure out how best to harness its collective goodwill, experience and energy to create a better future for scholarly publishing. To begin this process, the organizing committee has proposed an intriguing meeting format based on the very successful National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) model, but with some important modifications that will allow for more conversation and full-group debate, a careful capturing of ideas and recommendations, and follow-through measures to translate discussion into action. Our hope is that what comes about in 2016 will continue to develop in 2017 and culminate in new, robust, global understandings, and even new collaborative agreements and efforts—all of which will be determined by you and your conference colleagues.
Before you embark on this path together, here are a few housekeeping notes:
- The current delegate list appears at the end of this email. This is a work in progress—enrollment is proceeding quickly and will be completed by early October (225 delegates in all will be included). As you review this list, please let us know (by simply replying to this email) if you have any recommendations, particularly regarding other leaders who should attend from research universities and the global south. A number of replies to our conference invitations are still outstanding—summer has proven to be a difficult time to reach people (as you know)—but we would welcome your help identifying delegates from these and other groups.
- Starting within the next few days, you will receive a conference-related email approximately every two weeks until mid-May 2016—first regarding conference-related administrative details (conference registration, travel and lodging, posters, profiles, team assignments and so on), then tutorials beginning around January 1, and then conference follow-up details. If you have provided contact information for an assistant, emails will be sent to this individual as well. In order to ensure that you receive this information in a timely manner, please add this listserv’s email address to your “safe senders” list.
- In the coming months, an online working space will be set up for OSI2016 delegates. You will be able to securely manage your conference contact, roster and logistics information in this space and also interact with other delegates before and after your meeting in April.
That’s it for now. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me. From all of us, thank you again for participating in this important effort.
Sincerely,
Glenn Hampson
OSI Program Director
Executive Director
National Science Communication Institute
nationalscience.org
[email protected]
OSI2016 delegate list (UPDATED)
As of October 29, 217 high-level stakeholder representatives from around the world have committed to attend OSI2016. We expect this number to fluctuate as the final few delegates come on board, up to 225 delegates total for this first year, representing 15 different stakeholder groups in scholarly publishing.
- Ada Emmett, Head of the Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, University of Kansas
- Agathe Gebert, Open Access Repository Manager, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
- Ali Andalibi, Associate Dean of Research, George Mason University
- Alison Mudditt, Director, University of California Press
- Amy Brand, Director, MIT Press
- Amy Nurnberger, Research Data Manager, Columbia University
- Andrew Sallans, Partnerships and Collaborations Manger, Center for Open Science (COS)
- Angela Cochran, Director of Journals, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Ann Michael, President, Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
- Ann Riley, President, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- Ann Thornton, University Librarian and Vice Provost, Columbia University
- Anne Kenney, University Librarian, Cornell University
- Audrey McColloch, Chief Executive, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
- Barbara DeFelice, Program Director for Scholarly Communication, Copyright and Publishing, Dartmouth College
- Belinda Huang, Executive Director, National Postdoctoral Association
- Betsy Wilson, Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries, University of Washington
- Bev Acreman, VP, BioMed Central
- Bhanu Neupane, Program Specialist, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO
- Bill Priedhorsky, Science Resource Office Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Brad Fenwick, Senior Vice President for Global Strategic Alliances, Elsevier
- Brenda Johnson, Library Director and University Librarian, University of Chicago
- Brett Bobley, CIO, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- Brooks Hanson, Director of Publications, American Geophysical Union
- Bryan Alexander, higher education publishing consultant and futurist
- Carol Mandel, Dean, Division of Libraries, New York University
- Caroline Wagner, science policy expert, Chair in International Affairs, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing Group, California Digital Library
- Catherine Murray-Rust, Dean of Libraries & Vice Provost for Academic Effectiveness, Georgia Tech
- Catriona MacCallum, PLOS Senior Advocacy Manager, PLOS ONE Consulting Editor
- Charles Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Chris Bourg, Director, MIT Libraries
- Chris Erdmann, Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Library
- Christine Hendren, Executive Director, Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
- Christopher Thomas, Administrator, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), US Department of Defense
- Claire Blin, Director of Libraries, University of Pierre and Marie Curie
- Claudia Holland, Head of Scholarly Communication and Copyright, George Mason University
- Colleen Cook, Dean of Libraries, McGill University
- Crispin Taylor, Executive Director, American Society of Plant Biologists
- Daisy Selematsela, Director of Knowledge, National Science Foundation of South Africa
- Danny Kingsley, Head of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge University
- David Ross, Executive Director for Open Access, SAGE Publications
- Dee Magnoni, Research Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Deborah Jakubs, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University
- Deborah Stine, Professor of the Practice, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Deni Auclair, VP & Lead Analyst, Science, Technology, Medicine & Healthcare, Outsell Inc.
- Denise Stephens, University Librarian, University of California Santa Barbara
- Diane Graves, Assistant Vice President for Information Resources and University Librarian, Trinity University
- Diane Schott-Lichter, VP Publishing, American College of Physicians and incoming chair of the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing division’s executive council
- Donna Scheeder, President, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Dick Wilder, Associate General Counsel, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Emily McElroy, Director, McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, PLOS
- Francisco Valdés Ugalde, Director General, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Mexico
- Frank Sander, Director, Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck Society
- Gail McMillan, Director of Scholarly Communication, Virginia Tech
- Gary Evoniuk, Director of Publication Practices, GlaksoSmithKline (GSK)
- Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef
- Ginger Strader, Director, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Glenorchy Campbell, Director of US Sales, British Medical Journal (BMJ)
- Carton Rogers, Vice Provost for Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
- Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Executive Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions
- Herbert van de Sompel, Open archives pioneer and Prototyping Team Leader, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Howard Gadlin, Director, Ombudsman’s Office, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS
- Ingrid Parent, University Librarian, University of British Columbia
- Ivan Oransky, Vice President and Global Editorial Director, MedPage Today, and Co-Founder, Retraction Watch
- Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development and Management, California Digital Library (CDL)
- Jack Schultz, Director, Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri
- James Butcher, Publishing Director, Nature Journals
- James Duderstadt, Chair, National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Committee
- James Taylor, Deputy Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, American Physical Society
- Jamie Vernon, Director of Science Communications and Publications at Sigma Xi and Editor-in-Chief, American Scientist
- Jane McAuliffe, Director, National and International Outreach, Library of Congress
- Jason Hoyt, CEO, PeerJ
- Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President, bepress
- Jeff Tsao, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
- Jeff Mackie-Mason, Dean of Libraries, University of California Berkeley
- Jeff Murray, Deputy Director in Family Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Jeffrey L. Horrell, Dean of Libraries, Dartmouth College
- Jeffrey Vitter, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas
- Jennifer Hansen, Officer, Knowledge & Research Services, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Jennifer Howard, Senior Reporter, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Jennifer Pesanelli, Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Director of Publications, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
- Jill Mortali, Director, Office of Sponsored Projects, Dartmouth College
- Jim Hilton, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, University of Michigan
- Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
- Joanna Martin, CENDI Alternate, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), US Department of Energy
- John Donatich, Director, Yale University Press
- John Inglis, Executive Director and Publisher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and Co-Founder, bioRxiv
- John Paul Christy, Director of Public Programs, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- John Vaughn, Senior Fellow, American Association of Universities (AAU)
- John Warren, Head, Mason Publishing Group, George Mason University
- John Willinsky, open access pioneer, PKP founder, and professor, Stanford University
- John Zenelis, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, George Mason University
- Jon Cawthorne, Dean of Libraries, West Virginia University
- Joshua Greenberg, Program Director for Digital Information Technology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Joshua Nicholson, CEO and Co-Founder, The Winnower
- Joyce Backus, Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
- Joyce Ogburn, Dean of Libraries, Appalachian State
- Julie Hannaford, Deputy Chief Librarian, University of Toronto
- Kaitlin Thaney, Director, Mozilla Science Lab
- Karin Trainer, University Librarian, Princeton University
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Kathleen Keane, Director, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
- Keith Webster, Dean of Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University
- Kevin Bradley, President, US Journals, Taylor & Francis Group
- Laura Helmuth, Incoming President, National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
- Laurie Goodman, Editor-in-Chief, GigaScience
- Lee Cheng Ean, University Librarian, National University of Singapore
- Leon Heward-Mills, Global Publishing Director, Taylor & Francis Group
- Leslie Reynolds, Chair of Academic Division, Special Libraries Association (SLA) and Senior Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder
- Lisa Macklin, Director, Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University
- Lisa Spiro, Executive Director of Digital Scholarship Services, Rice University
- Lorcan Dempsey, VP Research, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
- Lorraine Haricombe, Vice Provost and Director, University of Texas Libraries
- Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google
- Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American and Director, Editorial & Publishing, Magazines, Nature Research Group
- Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts
- Mark Parsons, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance
- Mark Patterson, Executive Director, eLife
- Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries, University of North Texas and President, Educopia Institute
- Martin Kalfatovic, Associate Director, Digital Program and Initiatives, Smithsonian Libraries
- Martin Wybourne, Vice Provost for Research, Dartmouth College
- Martin Paul Eve, Founder and President, Open Library of Humanities
- Mary Thomas, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Libraries
- Mary Woolley, President, Research!America
- Mary Ellen Davis, Executive Director, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- Maryann Martone, Director of Biosciences, Hypothes.is, and President, FORCE11
- Maura Marx, Acting Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Medha Devare, Data and Knowledge Manager, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
- Mel DeSart, Head, Engineering Library, University of Washington
- Melinda Kenneway, Executive Director, Kudos
- Melissa Cragin, Staff Associate, National Science Foundation
- Meredith Morovati, Executive Director, Dryad
- Micah Vandergrift, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Florida State University
- Michael Eisen, co-founder of PLOS and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, U Cal Berkeley
- Michael Furlough, Executive Director, Hathi Trust
- Michael Mabe, CEO, International Association of STM Publishers
- Michael Van Woert, Executive Officer and Director, National Science Board Office, National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Michael Wolfe, Executive Director, Authors Alliance
- Nancy Davenport, University Librarian, American University
- Nancy Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Libraries
- Nancy Weiss, Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer, Innovation and IP, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
- Narda Jones, Legislative Counsel, US Senate
- Natalia Manola, Director, OpenAIRE
- Neil Jacobs, Head of Scholarly Communication Support, UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
- Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH, and program manager for the NIH Public Access Policy
- Norbert Lossau, Vice President, University of Göttingen
- Pablo Gentili, Executive Secretary, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and Director, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Brazil
- Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services and CEO of UCL Press, University College of London, and Co-Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) CIO Community
- Paul Murphy, Director, RAND Press
- Paul Peters, CEO, Hindawi Publishing
- Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
- Peter Berkery, Executive Director, American Association of University Presses (AAUP)
- Peter Lawson, International Sales Director, Karger Publishers
- Phil Carpenter, Executive Vice President, Research, Wiley
- Phil Kim, Co-Founder and COO, 20 Million Minds Foundation
- Pippa Smart, Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing
- Polyanne Frantz, Executive Director, Grants Resource Center, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
- Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
- Rachel Dresbeck, President, National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) and Director of Research Development and Communications, Oregon Health and Science University
- Ralf Schmimer, Head of Scientific Information Provision, Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck Society
- Ramesh Gaur, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Rebecca Kennison, Principal, K|N Consultants
- Renaud Fabre, Director, Scientific and Technical Information Directorate (DIST), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- Richard Price, CEO, Academia.edu
- Rick Anderson, Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Utah and President-Elect, Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
- Rita Scheman, Publications Director, American Physiological Society
- Robert Cartolano, Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services, Columbia University
- Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services, Wellcome Library
- Robert Schnabel, Dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, incoming CEO of the Association of Computing Machinery
- Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
- Robin Staffin, Director for Basic Research, US Department of Defense
- Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian, Australian National University, and Deputy Chair, Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
- Ryan Merkley, President, Creative Commons
- Sally Hillsman, Executive Officer, American Sociological Association
- Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Sam Burridge, Managing Director of Open Research, SpringerNature
- Sandra Brown, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
- Sarah Michalak, Associate Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC)
- Sarah Pritchard, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, Northwestern University
- Scott Montgomery, author, Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (2nd ed.)
- Scott Plutchak, Director of Digital Data Curation Strategies, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Scott Waugh, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Seth Denbo, Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives, American Historical Society
- Sharon Farb, Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, UCLA
- Stephanie Fulton, Executive Director, Research Medical Library, MD Anderson
- Stephen Hawthorne, Deputy Chief Executive, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Steven Hall, Managing Director, IOP Publishing
- Steven Hill, Head of Research Policy, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
- Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director, The Royal Society
- Sue Corbett, Executive Director, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
- Susan Fitzpatrick, President, James S. McDonnell Foundation and Past-President, Association for Women in Science
- Susan Gibbons, Deputy Provost, Libraries & Scholarly Communication, Yale University
- Susan Haigh, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Research Libraries
- Susan Senner, Information Delivery Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- Susan Skomal, President/CEO, BioOne
- Susan Veldsman, Director, Scholarly Publishing Unit, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
- Suzanne Wones, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Library
- Tee Guidotti, President-Elect, Sigma Xi
- Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- Tony Hey, Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute, University of Washington
- Tony Peatfield, Director of Corporate Affairs, Medical Research Council, Research Councils UK (RCUK)
- Tony Roche, Publishing Director, Emerald Publishing Group
- Trevor Dawes, Associate University Librarian, Washington University St. Louis
- Tyler Walters, Dean, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, and Director, Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
- Vicky Williams, CEO, Research Media
- Vidya Krishnamurthy, Director of Communications, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Vivian Lewis, University Librarian, McMaster University
- Vivian Siegel, Director of Education and Training, Global Biological Standards Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, University of Minnesota
- William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley
- Winston Tabb, Dean of Libraries and Museums, Johns Hopkins University
- Xiaolin Zhang, Director, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
