Open and Engaged 2019
Forging links between higher education and cultural heritage to foster open scholarship.
Open and Engaged returns for its second year in celebration of International Open Access Week. This one day event looks to explore how higher education and cultural heritage institutions can better work together to improve the transition to open access and practices supporting open scholarship more broadly.
The event will run from 11:00 to 16:00 and will feature two keynotes, three parallel sessions and a panel. The parallel sessions will look at open collections and their impact, accessibility and inclusive design, and the cost of images in research publications.
Open and Engaged will be held in the British Library's Knowledge Centre, close to St Pancras, King's Cross and Euston National Rail and underground stations.
- Scroll down for more details of the day, including our speakers.
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This one day event looks to explore how higher education and cultural heritage institutions can better work together to improve the transition to open access and practices supporting open scholarship more broadly.
As Plan S signals an acceleration in the shift towards immediate open access, it is important to highlight the examples set by leaders in the cultural heritage sector to support open research. It is also vital that we examine the obstacles that currently hinder open scholarship and what avenues must be pursued in order to overcome these. In order to do this, we will hear from members of the academic community on what changes they would like to see enacted to support them in their research.
Our draft agenda is as follows:
10:30 Registration
11:00 Welcome, Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian, British Library
11:20 Helen Hardy, Digital Collections Programme Manager, Natural History Museum
12:00 Dr Mark Sweetnam, Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin
12:40 Lunch
13:30 Parallel Sessions
- Open collections and impact
Linda Spurdle, Digital Development Manager, Birmingham Museums Trust
Jason Evans, National Wikimedian, National Library of Wales
- Accessibility and inclusive design for open content
Tom Scott, Head of Digital Engagement, Wellcome Trust
Josie Caplehorne, Scholarly Communication Coordinator, University of Kent
Ben Watson, Accessible Information Advisor, University of Kent
- The cost of images
Professor Simon Tanner, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage & Pro Vice Dean Research (Impact and Innovation), King's College London
Dr Andrea Wallace, Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter
14:30 Tea break
15:00 Panel
How can higher education and cultural heritage institutions better work together to ensure the success of Plan S and open scholarship?
Dr Kathryn Eccles, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
Dr JD Hill, Research Manager, British Museum
Dylan Law, Head of Cultural Value and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Chair: Dr Andrea Wallace
More panellists to follow
15:50 Closing remarks, Torsten Reimer, Head of Research Services, British Library
16:00 Close