Ethics and Equity of Open

Organizers: Judith Currano, Ye Li, Patricia Mabrouk.

March 22, 2022, 3:00-6:35 pm, Pacific time    

3:00 Introductory remarks

3:05 What can we learn from the publication practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of biomedical preprints, peer-reviewed literature, and researchers’ attitude toward the open access publishing. Yulia Sevryugina

3:35 Citation analysis for open-access content in theses and dissertations. Emily Wild

4:05 Do researcher’s perceptions of the social dynamics in their field relate to their decisions to be open? Ashley J. Thomas, Chris Bourg, Rebecca Saxe

4:35 Intermission

4:45 Advancing accessibility education in open access library publishing. Ally Laird

5:15 On equitable, ethical, and formative peer review. Shelby Brewser, Christopher P. Long

5:45 Practical steps to achieving an equitable transition to open access – recommendations from the Research4Life OA taskforce. Andrea Powell

6:15 Panel discussion