The Academia Europaea & The Wenner-Gren Foundations International Symposium:
Publishing in Academia: Digital Challenges#
May 10-12, 2023 at the Wenner-Gren Centre, Stockholm, Sweden#
Organizing Committee: Lars Engwall MAE (Chair), Kirsten Drotner MAE, Theo d’Haen MAE and Marcel Swart MAE
Program#
Wednesday May 10#
12:30-13:00: Registration
13:00-13:15: Welcome and Introduction
Britt-Marie Sjöberg MAE and Lars Engwall MAE
13:15-14:00: Key-note: State of the Art
Johan Rooryck, MAE, Executive Director, cOAlition S
Plan S and cOAlition S: Accelerating the transition to Open Access
14:00-14:15: Leg stretcher
14:15-16:15 Session 1: Publishing industry
Chair: Lars Engwall MAE
Dominic Mitchell, Operations Manager, Directory of Open Access Journals
Open Access, quality and a community-driven approach
Masja Horn, Brill Publishing
Are we still collaborating? A case for a pluriform publishing landscape
Chris Graf, Springer Nature
Three tides of change: The role of technology in protecting the scientific record
16:15-16:45: Coffee Break
16:45-18:15: Session 2: The Role of Libraries
Chair: Milena Žic-Fuchs MAE
Lars Burman, Chief Librarian of Uppsala University
Experiences of change: The libraries’ role in academic publishing
Alexandra Vraneŝ, Library Studies, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
The role of the library within the university
18:30 Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner, 23rd floor
Thursday May 11#
9:00-10:30 Session 3: Repercussions for early career researchers
Chair: Marcel Swart MAE
Marina Rantanen Modeer, Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
Repercussions for early career researchers
Scott Bremer, Representative of the Young Academy of Europe
Mapping publishing pitfalls for early career researchers
Pil Maria Saugmann, Eurodoc Secretariat Coordinator
TBA
10:30-11:00: Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Repercussions for Senior Researchers
Chair: Alban Kellerbauer MAE
Stefan Helgesson, Professor of English, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
English versus small languages: Navigating forms and genres of research in the age
of saturation
Christine Musselin MAE, Professor of Sociology, SciencePo, Paris, France
Transformed publication strategies
12:30-13:30: Lunch, 23rd floor
13:30-15:00: Session 5: East European Countries
Chair: Jürgen Enders MAE
George Sharvashidze MAE, Former Rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia,
Former Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia
Problems of publishing by young scholars in Eastern Europe
Liviu Papadina, Dean of Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
TBA
15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-17:30: Session 6: Beyond Europe
Chair: Marie Farge MAE
Abel Parker, SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library On Line), a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publisher for open access journals for Latin America and Caribbean
SciELO 25 years of Open Access
Chengzhou He, Dean of Arts, Nanjing University
Digital publishing and new academic ecosystem: An ANT approach to the recent disputes over a Chinese journal database giant
Osman Aldirdiri, Director at FORCE 11 (The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship) and Executive Committee Member at SPARC Africa (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Africa)
TBA
17:45: Departure by Bus from Wenner-Gren Center
18:00 Dinner Boat Trip
Friday May 12#
09:00-10:30 Session 7: Quality Assessment of OA publishing
Chair: Kirsten Drotner MAE
Sven Stafström, Director General, the Swedish Research Council
Charlotte Wien, Director of Research, University Library of Southern Denmark
Quality assessment of scholarity publications
Charlotte Wien, Vice President of European Library Relations, Elsevier Verlag, Denmark
Is living easier with eyes closed?
10:30-11:00: Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 8: Financial consequences for universities
Chair: Wim Blockmans MAE
Astrid Söderbergh-Widding MAE, Rector of Stockholm University, Sweden
Bjørn Stensaker, Vice-Rector of University of Oslo
Beyond transformative agreements: Ways forward for universities
Bjørn Stensaker, Vice-Rector of University of Oslo, Norway
Rising costs and questionable quality? The need for institutional strategies
12:30-13:15: Concluding Panel
Chair: Lars Engwall MAE
Theo D’haen MAE, Former Editor of the European Review, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
Alban Kellerbauer MAE, Editor of the European Review, Scientific officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany
Katalin Solymosi, Vice-Chair of the Young Academy of Europe, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest
Milena Žic-Fuchs MAE, AE Board Member, Professor of Linguistics, University of Zagreb, Former Croatian Minister of Science and Technology
13:15-14:00: Lunch, 23rd floor
Download the programme (April 2023)