"Reviewathon" Workshop Series discusses special topics in Open Science
OPERAS event will host three sessions between late November and early December
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are places to discuss new initiatives, host and create new discussions within OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities. These groups, which work collaboratively, exchange information, watch and prepare projects, have recently published white papers on their topics, covering the themes of Multilingualism, Open Access business models, Advocacy, tools Research and Development, common standards and FAIR principles.
Following these publications, the OPERAS consortium is organising a series of workshops to discuss the topics studied by the SIGs and to engage the community in a collaborative review process (Reviewathon). The meetings are scheduled for 29 November, 01 and 06 December, between 11 am and 12 pm Portuguese time (12 pm to 13 pm CET), and will take place online, via Zoom (registration at this link).
The meetings are aimed at the Open Science and the Social Sciences and Humanities communities - researchers, university and library staff, publishers, among others. The aim is to engage people in the debate started with the white papers, continuing the discussions during the collaborative post-review process. During the Reviewathon, participants will be able to comment on and discuss the publications, leading to improvements in these papers and possible new versions in the future.
Reviewathon programme
| Day 01 - 29th November |
11:00-11:30 (12:00-12:30 CET): Opening session - The SIGs and the collaborative post-review
Opening of the workshop series and presentation of the collaborative post-review process
Speaker: Karla Avanço (OPERAS Community Manager)
11.30 am - 12.30 pm (12.30 pm - 1 pm CET) - Multilingualism
This session will synthesize the literature on innovations in knowledge sharing and scientific communication in linguistically diverse scientific contexts and research networks and to better understand the role of multilingualism in the bibliodiversity of scientific communication, from the perspective of publishers and translators/researchers.
Speaker: Delfim Leão, UC Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science
| Day 02 - Wednesday, 01 December |
11h to 11h30 (12h - 12h30 CET) - Open Access Business Models
The objective of the discussion is to better understand how the humanities and social sciences publishing community applies or could apply collaborative models for open access books, the problems that they encounter, and the ways in which their needs could be supported.
Speaker: Fran Manista (Jisc) and Marta Blasszczynska (IBL PAN)
11.30 am - 12h (12.30 pm - 1 pm CET): Advocacy
This session provides some practical recommendations on advocating for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities. It is intended for all stakeholders actively involved in open scholarly communication activities in these disciplines. The session outlines some suggestions for addressing researchers’ needs related to Open Access publishing, looks at recommendations for national audiences, and gives some ideas on advocacy actions for the social science and humanities disciplines.
Speaker: Elisabeth Ernst (Max Weber Stiftung)
| Day 03 - Monday 06 December |
11:00-12:30 (12:00-12:30 CET) - Tools Research and Development
This session will provide an analysis of the tools landscape, identify emerging trends, and list areas for potential improvement, development, and collaboration.
Speaker: Arnaud Gingold (OpenEdition)
11:30-12:30 (12:30-1:00 CET): Common Standards and FAIR Principles
The goal of this session will be to discuss the recent developments in the transition to the open science paradigm and the complementary roles of key stakeholders in this process such as research funding agencies, research institutions, infrastructure providers and researchers, while highlighting the role of standards.
Speaker: Marina Angelaki (National Documentation Centre of Greece, EKT)
Check out more information about the speakers on the OPERAS blog.
Register here: OPERAS Reviewathon