Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness and equity in education, which includes a robust state and federal policy program, a broad librarian community of practice, and a leadership program for open education professionals... Read More →
Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Heather Joseph has served as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) since 2005. In that capacity, she works to support broadening access to the results of scholarly research through enabling open access publishing, archiving and... Read More →
Working in collaboration with libraries and library consortia in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, I advocate for open access to research results, facilitate the development and implementation of open science policies and infrastructures, and provide support and... Read More →
I am currently completing my Masters in Intellectual Property in Digital Media at the University of Cape Town. My research involves Open Access in developing nations, with a particular focus on Africa. I am investigating ways to unite emerging technologies in Africa with access to... Read More →
Saturday November 15, 2014 1:45pm - 2:45pm EST
Main TheatreAmerican University Washington College of Law
Assistant Professor of Food Systems, University of Vermont
Meredith Niles is an assistant professor in the Nutrition and Food Sciences Department and the Food Systems Initiative at The University of Vermont. Meredith completed a post-doctorate fellowship in sustainability science at Harvard University. Meredith examines food systems sustainability... Read More →
Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London (from May 2015)
Co-founder, Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org Author: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future https://www.martineve.com/oahums
IT and Innovation Director at Redalyc, Redalyc / Amelica
A researcher trying to contribute to the democratization of knowledge in the Latin American region through Open Access and Technology. Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web Technologies, Scientific Journals.
Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Erin McKiernan is a professor in the Department of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a researcher in experimental and computational biophysics and neurophysiology, and an advocate for open access, open data, and open science. She is also the founder of Why Open... Read More →
Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Erin McKiernan is a professor in the Department of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a researcher in experimental and computational biophysics and neurophysiology, and an advocate for open access, open data, and open science. She is also the founder of Why Open... Read More →
Sunday November 16, 2014 10:00am - 10:30am EST
Main TheatreAmerican University Washington College of Law
My name is Roshan Karn and I am a final year medical student at Institute of Medicine, Tribhuwan University in Nepal. I established the organization named Open Access Nepal in early 2014, after attending the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students and Early Stage Researchers... Read More →
President, University of Barcelona(starting September)
Most of us know that gut wrenching feeling you get when you find out that, the full text of the abstract you are reading cannot be accessed or when you really want to carry out a research but unfortunately don’t even know where to start. I have always been curious and always ask... Read More →
Assistant Professor of Food Systems, University of Vermont
Meredith Niles is an assistant professor in the Nutrition and Food Sciences Department and the Food Systems Initiative at The University of Vermont. Meredith completed a post-doctorate fellowship in sustainability science at Harvard University. Meredith examines food systems sustainability... Read More →
I started Open Access Nigeria as a medical student in 2013, just after being selected as a participant at the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students & Early Career Researchers. I had conceived it as a vehicle to deliver on my application promises, a community of Open Access enthusiasts... Read More →
Mitar - PeerLibrary - Facilitating the global conversation on academic literature - Slides Robin - Advancing research and communication - slides Roxanne - Open Data in West Africa Ebola Response - Slides April Clyburne-Sherin - The Method: a podcast on the state of science Kes - O-Index Renata - Scientific social networks for research - Slides Felix - Sumatra as an Open Science tool
Sunday November 16, 2014 3:45pm - 4:00pm EST
Main TheatreAmerican University Washington College of Law
Prateek - No slides Mitar - Slides (HTML) Tom Pollard - Outlining the perfect scientific society - Slides (powerpoint) Marcin on Paperity - Slides (PDF) Ivan on a Student Access to Research Survey - Slides (prezi) Juan on Passing a student open access policy at Stanford - No Slides
Sunday November 16, 2014 4:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Main TheatreAmerican University Washington College of Law
Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness and equity in education, which includes a robust state and federal policy program, a broad librarian community of practice, and a leadership program for open education professionals... Read More →
Shawn serves as the Assistant Director for Operations, handling member services, federal and state policy, and general operations. Prior to joining the SPARC team in 2014, Shawn worked at The Sheridan Group as a Senior Policy Associate, where she developed and implemented advocacy... Read More →
PhD in Library and Information Science, caring deeply about open education, open data and open source. Worked & consulted for the Government of Slovakia on the Open Government Partnership. Fan of Python (co-organizer of #PyConSK) and Django.
Once you're finished with your meetings a space will be provided at the hotel for you to continue work on your ideas, projects and debrief after your meetings!
Monday November 17, 2014 2:00pm - 5:30pm EST
HotelHoliday Inn Rossyln 1900 N Fort Myer Dr, Arlington, VA 22209
UPDATED: Dinner begins at 6:30 and will be hosted at the University Club of Washington DC, located at 1135 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036. The entrance is located on 16th St NW between L and M Streets.
The University Club is 2.5 blocks northeast of the Farragut North Metro Station (Red line) and 4.5 blocks northeast of the Farragut West Metro Station (Blue, Orange, and Silver lines).
You are responsible for finding your own way to the dinner venue; however, a group will leave from the hotel at 5:45 to head to the University Club.
