Workshop on Open Access infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Programme
Day 1: 6 February 2013
Registration and Opening
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Arrival of participants, security check and registration |
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
Opening session • Welcome and Introduction Dr Tim Hunt, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group • Setting the scene of the workshop Theodore Papazoglou, PhD, ERC Executive Agency, Head of Unit A1: Support to the Scientific Council |
Session 1: Open Access in Social Sciences and Humanities - Current practices and challenges
Speakers profiles and abstracts
Chair: Professor Alain Peyraube, ERC Scientific Council, former member of the Open Access working group
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
• On Grasping the Lifeline - and Avoiding the Noose: Open Access in Social Sciences and Humanities Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Informatics, Trinity College Library, Trinity College Dublin • Open Access in Great Britain: how not to do it? Professor Colin Jones, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London. Immediate past President, Royal Historical Society • From Trinity College to the Jedi Archives: De Gruyter – A Publisher in Transition Dr Anke Beck, Vice President Publishing for Humanities & Social Sciences, De Gruyter Publishers, Berlin • The Common OA Policy Needs of SSH and STEM Stevan Harnad - via video link, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences, Université du Québec à Montrèal and Professor of Web Science, University of Southampton |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Discussion |
Session 2: Open Access infrastructures in Social Sciences and Humanities – concrete examples
Chair: Professor Nicholas Canny, ERC Scientific Council, member of the Open Access working group
| 15:50 - 17:30 |
• SSRN: How do we provide Strategic Access? Gregory Gordon, Social Science Research Network (SSRN) President & CEO • Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) – status quo, visions and challenges Dr Agathe Gebert, Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS), Cologne • RePEc, a digital commons to document economics Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society and Novosibirsk State University • Towards an Open Access policy for digital arts and humanities in Europe: a DARIAH vision Sally Chambers, Secretary General, DARIAH-EU |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Discussion |
Day 2: 7 February 2013
Session 3: Open Access policies of funding bodies and their implementation
Chair: Professor Matthias Kleiner, ERC Scientific Council
| 09:00 - 10:15 |
• Open Access-mandate of the Danish Public Sector Research Councils and Foundations Rune Odgaard Jensen, MSc, MA, Head of Section, The Danish Council for Independent Research, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education • Funding model for Open Access Books - Example of a Research Funder (Austrian Science Fund - FWF) Doris Haslinger, FWF, Program Manager of Stand-Alone publications • Open Access and the AHRC Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| 10:35 - 11:25 |
• Towards a European Policy on Open Access Daniel Spichtinger, Open Access Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) • OpenAIRE – Open Knowledge Infrastructure for Europe Dr Birgit Schmidt, Project Coordinator Electronic Publishing, University of Göttingen / State and University Library |
Session 4: Round table discussion
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Panel discussion on adequate business models for open access infrastructures in Social Sciences and Humanities
Panel members |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Wrap up session: Lessons learnt and next steps Chair: Dr Tim Hunt, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group |
Discussants - invited ERC grantees:
• Professor Cristina D'Ancona, University of Pisa ERC Advanced Grant "Greek into Arabic: Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges"
• Professor Lauri Mälksoo, Director of the Institute of Constitutional and European Law, University of Tartu ERC Starting Grant "International Law and Non-liberal States: The Doctrine and Application of International Law in the Russian Federation"
Rapporteur:
• Dr Dagmar Meyer, Policy Adviser, ERC Executive Agency, Unit A1: Support to the Scientific Council
For more information on the ERC Open Access policy please contact the ERCEA Open Access Team.
