3rd to 4th December 2014 in Munich
The first OPEN ACCESS AMBASSADORS’ training was conceived as a two-day workshop in Munich from 3rd to 4th December 2014 in Munich at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Every Max Planck Institute was invited to delegate one young researcher to attend the workshop and become an OPEN ACCESS AMBASSADOR.
Wednesday, December 3rd
13:00 Welcome & Opening | Introduction & Moderation: Sandra Vengadasalam
13:15 Prateek Mahalwar, Max Planck PhDnet
13:30 Frank Sander, Max Planck Digital Library/ General Manager
13:45 Georg Botz, Max Planck Society/ Open Access Policy
14:00 Astrid Orth, Göttingen State and University Library/ FOSTER
14:15 – Opening Speech: Advancing Research by Returning Research Communication to its Roots
Nick Shockey, Right to Research Coalition, USA
14:45 – Tea/ Coffee break
Researchers’ perspective on Open Access | Moderation: Prateek Mahalwar
15:00 – Open Access in the Scientific Discourse and Quality Assurance
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
15:30 – My experiences with open access publishing as an early-career researcher
Erin C. McKiernan, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
16:00 – If only access were the only problem of our infrastructure!
Björn Brembs, University of Regensburg
16:30 – Closing remarks day one
16:45 – Presentation: Meet Boston Consulting Group
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19:00 – “AMBASSADORS’ NIGHT” at Filmcasino Munich (Odeonsplatz 8, 80539 Munich)
Special guest & dinner talk: Randy Schekman
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Thursday, December 4th
Open Access Publishing: Misconceptions & perspectives | Moderation: Kai Geschuhn
10:00 – Opening Speech: DORA the reformer – prospects for new approaches to research assessment
Mark Patterson, eLIFE
Publishers’ panel
10:30 – De Gruyter Open (Gerhard Pappert)
10:45 – Faculty 1000 Research (Michaela Torkar, Editorial Director)
11:00 – Frontiers (Mirjam Curno, Editorial Office Manager)
11:15 – SpringerOpen (Veronika Spinka, Open Access Manager)
11:30 – Copernicus Publications (Xenia van Edig, Business Development)
11:45 – QScience– “From Göttingen to Doha: Destination #openaccess”
(Alwaleed Alkhaja, Senior Editor)
12:00 – ScienceOpen (Stephanie Dawson, Managing Director)
12:30 – Lunch
Hands On! Open Access Workshop | Moderation: Prateek Mahalwar
13:15 – Talking about open access with your colleagues and advisors
Meredith Niles, Harvard University
13:45 – Data mining & re-use of published research: copyright problems & the benefits of full open access, elucidated
Ross Mounce, University of Bath
14:30 – Tools and Support for Open Access at Max Planck Society
Kai Geschuhn, Michael Franke, MPDL
15:00 – Tea/ Coffee break
15:30 – Introduction to Workspaz, Discussion: How to share materials and build up the network, questions. Closing remarks.
Andreas Vogler & Organizing team
16:30 – End of conference
