2023 Programme

The ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023 was held at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel, Manchester, UK from 13-15 September.

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Wednesday 13 September

Presentation

Conference Welcome
Jamie Humphrey, Chair of ALPSP & Head of Journals, Royal Society of Chemistry
Session 1 Keynote: Future Trends in Responsible Research Evaluation. Sponsored by PLS
Dr. Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager, Loughborough University
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Session 2: Building an Inclusive Workplace Culture
Simon Holt, Elsevier (Co-Chair)
Dianndra Roberts, Royal College of Psychiatrists (Co-Chair)
Pooja Aggarwal, Bloomsbury
Mark Richards, BMJ
Karen Stoll Farrell, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
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Session 3: ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing – the finalists
David Sommer, Kudos (Chair)
Impact Award
- Africa Commons
- eLife’s new model of scientific publishing
- IOPP double anonymous and transparent peer review
- Original Études for the Developing Conductor     
Innovation in Publishing
- Bilingual journal workflow
- BMJ Impact Analytics
- Cassyni Journal Seminar Series
- Schol-AR (Ardist)
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Thursday 14 September

Presentation

Session 4: Beyond open access, how do we measure success for Open Science?
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS (Chair)
Rebecca Kirk, PLOS (Co-Chair)
Rachel Bruce, UKRI
Lauren Cadwallader, PLOS
Delwen Franzen, BIH QUEST at Charité
Graham Smith, Springer Nature
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Parallel Session 5a: Research Integrity in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape. Sponsored by Morressier
Rebecca Moakes, Maverick Publishing Specialists (Chair)
Dr. Gareth Dyke, Maverick Publishing Specialists (Co-Chair)
Dr. Sabina Alam, Taylor & Francis
Deborah Kahn, COPE
Leslie McIntosh, Digital Science
Professor Stephen Pinfield, University of Sheffield
 
Parallel Session 5b: Equitable Open Access:  Moving Beyond the APC Economy. Sponsored by Royal Society of Chemistry
Curtis Brundy, Iowa State University (Co-Chair)
Mriganka Awati, Cactus Communications (Co-Chair)
Rebecca Kirk, PLOS (In-person moderator)
Malavika Legge, OASPA
Andrea Vieira, CAPES
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Parallel Session 6a: Making Open Access Monographs Work: Moving from Vision to Implementation
Frances Pinter, Central European University Press (Chair)
Niels Stern, OAPEN (Co-Chair)
Vivian Berghahn, Berghahn Books
Wendy Queen, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Parallel Session 6b: Marketing, Analytics and Data for an Open Research Future
Mithu Lucraft, TBI Communications (Chair)
Stephanie Veldman, Brill (Co-Chair)
Mathias Astell, ResearchGate
Rachael Harper, IOP Publishing
Sara Killingworth, The IET
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Parallel Session 7a: Industry Updates
Louise Russell, Tutton Russell Consulting (Chair)
Ivy Cavendish, Springer Nature
Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing
Stuart Maxwell, Scholarly iQ
Julia McDonnell, Oxford University Press
Leslie McIntosh, Digital Science
Tasha Mellins-Cohen, COUNTER
Lucy White, The Royal Society
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Parallel Session 7b: Society Journals and Open Access:  Are societies being pulled or pushed to OA?
Robyn Mugridge, Frontiers (Chair)
Mariam Chahid, Frontiers (Co-Chair)
Emma Gulseven, IWA Publishing
Dean Sanderson, AIP Publishing
Emma Wilson, Royal Society of Chemistry
 
Parallel Session 8a: Diversity in Commissioning
Clare Litt, Liverpool University Press (Chair)
Valarie Guagnini, Cambridge University Press (Co-Chair)
Iram Satti, Bloomsbury Professional
Delayna Spencer, SAGE Publishing
Paul Stevens, Bristol University Press
 
Parallel Session 8b: Disruption in Scholarly Publishing. Sponsored by MDPI
Godwyns Onwuchekwa, eLife Sciences (Chair)
Rebecca Kirk, PLOS (Co-Chair)
Prof. Dr. Philipp Koellinger, DeSci Labs
Josh Nicholson, scite
Charlie Rapple, Kudos
 
Session 9: AI: The threats and opportunities for publishers. Sponsored by PLS
Leslie Lansman, Springer Nature (Chair)
Will Crook, PLS
Hong Zhou, Wiley
 
The winners of the 2023 ALPSP Awards
- ALPSP Rising Stars (Sponsored by PLS)
  Jade Koo, BMJ | George Litchfield, eLife | Alex Oxford, Edinburgh University Press | Danielle Tremeer, Geological Society of London
- ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing
  Awarded to Pippa Smart
- ALPSP Impact Award 2023
  Winner - IOP Publishing (IOPP). Highly commended - Original Études for the Developing Conductor
- ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023
  Joint winners BMJ Impact Analytics and Medwave/Kriyadocs
 

Friday 15 September

Presentation

Session 10: Open Access in China: Positioning Publishers to  succeed in the world’s largest market for articles
Andrew Smith, The Charlesworth Group (Chair)
Nicola Nugent, Royal Society of Chemistry (Co-Chair)
Nicko Goncharoff, Osmanthus Consulting Ltd
Gin Li, China Digital Marketing Consultant
Lei Shi, Tsinghua University Press (TUP)
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Session 11: Industry Leaders 'Question Time'
Dan Pollock, Delta Think (Chair)
Phil Garner, Becaris Publishing Limited (Co-Chair)
Stephanie Veldman, Brill (Co-Chair)
Chris Banks, Imperial College London
Fiona Hutton, eLife Sciences Publications
Steven Inchcoombe, Springer Nature
David Sweeney, University of Birmingham