This presentation highlights cOAlition S, an initiative dedicated to making full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. The Executive Director of cOAlition S, Johan Rooryck will briefly present the work of cOAlition S in the last five years and subsequently present the plans that cOAlition S is currently preparing for the next five years, pending approval of the cOAlition S Leaders’ Group. These plans aim to facilitate the transition towards an open, trustworthy, and equitable scholarly communication system that meets the needs of both research and society. cOAlition S will seek to do this in partnership with the research community, and through its funding requirements and research assessment processes.

Join the webinar on Friday, September 27, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-3 (Santiago, Chile). Register to watch the presentation and ask the speaker questions

Program:

• Welcome and Introduction
  Wouter Schallier, Chief of the Hernán Santa Cruz Library, ECLAC
• The cOAlition S initiative and the road ahead
  Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of cOAlition S
• Q&A with Johan Rooryck
  Moderator: Wouter Schallier

About the speaker:   
Johan Rooryck has been the Executive Director of cOAlition S since 2019, and a co-PI with Pierre Mounier of the DIAMAS project. Since 2016, Rooryck has served as co-editor-in-chief of the Diamond Open Access journal Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. This journal transitioned to Diamond Open Access when its Editorial Team and Board, as well as its reader and author community, decided to abandon the Elsevier-owned journal Lingua to found Diamond OA Glossa. Rooryck is a member of the Academia Europaea, a doctor honoris causa of the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), and a visiting professor at Leiden University, where he was chair of French linguistics from 1993 to 2020.