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Please join us at the University of York on Thursday 12th June, 12-4pm, for an event to mark the launch of the N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing.

Confirmed Speakers

Anna Vernon | Head of Research Licensing, Jisc

Sara Ball | Strategy Lead for Open Science, UKRI

Dr Caroline Edwards | Executive Director, Open Library of Humanities, and Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London

Clare Curtis | Director of Content and Engagement at the Biochemical Society/Portland Press

Chris Bennett | Global Commercial Director at Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Speakers from Jisc and UKRI will engage with us on the national approaches being taken to to drive efficiency and deliver value for money in the scholarly publishing model, while enabling new knowledge to be shared as widely, quickly and freely as possible for the benefit of society.

We will also hear from scholarly publishers who have already made a strategic commitment to supporting open science and introducing sustainable open access business models, reflecting the mission of their parent organisations and societies.

For the final session of the day, there will be a panel discussion which aims to go to the heart of the N8 statement: how we can enable new knowledge to be shared as widely, quickly and freely as possible for the good of society. The discussion will be with a group of researchers (Dr Emma Yhnell, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University; Dr Clau Nader, Department of Health Sciences, University of York; Dr Kate Lancaster, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York) and will focus on the importance of communicating scholarly research to the widest possible audiences, bringing in the role of open access in increasing public engagement and understanding of scientific findings. It will focus on the civic responsibility of universities, the opportunities that opening up research to the public can bring and the challenges that researchers and universities face in the current economic and financial climate.

This is an N8 Research Partnership event, organised by the Open Research team at the University of York.