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Kota Indah Leuven dan Diskusi Akses Terbuka

OPEN ACCESS IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: COMPARING POLICIES AND PRACTICES

Monday 2 December 2019, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m., Justus-Lipsiuszaal (LETT 08.16), Erasmushuis, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven

  • Host: Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)
  • Presentations (2 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.) :
    • Arianna Becerill Garcia (AmeLica, Mexico), The value of the scholarly-led, non-profit business model to achieve Open Access and scholarly publishing beyond APC: the AmeliCA’s cooperative approach
    • Juneman Abraham (Binus University, Indonesia), Open Access Publishing in Indonesia
    • Susan Veldsman (Director of the Academy of Science of South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Unit, Scielo SA , South-Africa), Towards openness in knowledge institutions in (South) Africa
  • Debate (3.45 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.): How should funders and research institutions support OA?

This event focuses on the implementation of Open Access, with presentations about community-owned, non-commercial alternatives in use in the Global South and a debate on the ambitious plan of major funders, united in cOAlition S, to make all European research publications available in Open Access.