PROGRAM > Round table on open access

 

 

While a revolution is under way in scholarly communications, chemistry appears as one of the most reluctant disciplines to changes. Although access to all the literature has never been so easy for researchers, this accessibility has an exorbitant cost, often concealed or hidden by scholarly funding agencies and government communities. We in the scholarly chemist community should do more to diminish the cost of publishing, make research paid by public funds accessible to everyone, and maintain high-quality publications. To overcome these issues, the chemists should be clearly informed about the current situation of scholarly publishing, from hard negotiations with big publishers to the consequences of the new legislations. They must also be aware that tools already exist to make their research results more open and accessible through preprints or archives. Finally, new paths should be paved to foster open science through scholar-led journals or by connecting with new publishers proposing reasonable prices in order to decrease the market power of current publishers.

Become an actor of the change, and join us for a debate on Nov. 28! To gain insight into these three subjects, we have invited experts coming from other disciplines where open access is already making progress:

Our guests :

  • Dr. Adeline Rege (Head of Scholarly Communications, University Library of Strasbourg, France) and Mrs Jehanne Ducros-Delaigue (Librarian, University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France).
  • — Dr. Sylvain Ribault (Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), CEA-CNRS UMR 3681, Saclay, France.

 

Date: November 28th at 11am

 

Duration: 1h30

Online user: 30