Guests of Honour: Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Professor Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council and Open Data Champion, Research Councils UK

Seminar supported by Springer Nature.

This conference will bring together senior policymakers and stakeholders to examine progress with the process of opening up access to research outputs, and the further push to apply the same principles to research data.

Delegates will discuss remaining challenges identified in the latest report from the Government’s UK Open Access Co-ordination Group - including how to apply Open Access to monographs, the management of repositories and their future role, and the level of Article Processing Charges, as well as the future of the academic publishing market more widely.

Sessions will also examine the legal, ethical and logistical implications of delivering an ‘Open Data’ framework for publicly funded research in the UK, in light of the recently published Concordat on Open Research Data, as well as look at issues for UK plans working in coordination with European Union proposals following the referendum result.

We expect those attending to include representatives from universities and their mission groups, research-intensive businesses and their trade associations, academic publishers, learned societies, research councils and other research funders.

Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Professor Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council and Open Data Champion, Research Councils UK have agreed to deliver keynote addresses at this seminar.

Dr Allam Ahmed, Senior Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex and President, World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD); Professor Geoffrey Boulton, President, Committee on Data for Science and Technology, International Council for Science and former Chair, Royal Society report, Science as an Open Enterprise; Rachel Bruce, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Jisc; Yvonne Budden, Head of Scholarly Communications, University of Warwick and Chair, UK Council of Research Repositories; Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing, Springer Nature; Naomi Korn, Chair, Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) and IP Consultant, Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy; Valerie McCutcheon, Research Information Manager, University of Glasgow and Champion, Open Access Special Interest Group (SIG), ARMA; Dr Frances Pinter, Founder, Knowledge Unlatched and Tom Smith, Director of Quality, Guidance and Learning, NHS Health Research Authority have agreed to speak.

Daniel Zeichner MP, Member, All-Party Parliamentary University Group has kindly agreed to chair a session at this seminar.

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London

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Organisers: Westminster Higher Education Forum
Language: EN

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