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Financial sustainability of open science research communication
June 30, 2023, 09:00 – 11:00 (BRT/UTC-3)
Language: Spanish
Los ponentes – Dr. Guillermo Banzato, Dr. Fernanda Beigel, and Dr. Humberto Debat – will present different aspects around the question of the financial sustainability of open science research communication, encompassing the private sector (small and medium-sized companies) and the public sector, passing through the vision of researchers and editors as far as Access Open Diamond and with APC to have a look at the common good dichotomy – market product in the system of academic publications.
About
This online event is one of the SciELO 25 Years Seminars, part of the activities to celebrate the 25 Years of the SciELO Program in 2023. The speakers will be Dr. Guillermo Banzato, who currently works in the private sector as Representative in Europe of CygnusMind, services for scientific journals and as Executive Director of the publishing house Books2bits; the Dr. Fernanda Beigel who chaired the UNESCO Committee of Experts on Open Science that prepared the Draft Recommendation for Open Science, approved in November 2021 and currently coordinates the Comité Nacional de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana (MINCYT, Argentina) and Dr. Humberto Debat, permanent researcher at INTA-Argentina and member of the Advisory Committee for Open Science and Citizenship of the Ministry of Science of Argentina. They will present different aspects around the question of the financial sustainability of open science research communication, ranging from debates and opportunities for the private sector (small and medium-sized companies) and the public sector, passing through the vision of researchers and editors in terms of Diamond Open Access and Open Access with APC payment and have a look at the common good dichotomy – market product in the academic publications system.
Agenda
09:00 – 09:10 Opening and presentation of the speakers [VIDEO]
09:10 – 09:40 Lecture by Dr. Guillermo Banzato (Title: What Open Access to finance? Debates and opportunities for SMEs and public institutions) [VIDEO] [DOWNLOAD]
09:40 – 10:10 Lecture by Dr. Fernanda Beigel (Title: Diamond open access or with APC payment? Self-perceptions of people who research and publish) [VIDEO] [DOWNLOAD]
10:10 – 10:40 Lecture by Dr. Humberto Debat (Title: A look at the dichotomy of the common good and market product in the academic publishing system) [VIDEO] [DOWNLOAD]
10:40 – 11:00 Debate with questions from participants [VIDEO]
11:00 – 11:10 Closing [VIDEO]
Coordination
ORCID: 0000-0002-5504-5922
Biblioteca Documentalista pela Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación da Universidad Nacional de La Plata. É profissional do CONICET. Desde fevereiro de 2017 é coordenadora do SciELO Argentina, equipe que integra desde agosto de 2005. Também fez parte do setor dos Catálogos Colectivos (atual CoBCyT) e de projetos distintos intersetoriais dentro do Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica CAICYT-CONICET, dentre os quais consta MALENA - Base de datos de políticas editoriales de revistas científicas argentinas.
Speakers
ORCID: 0000-0003-3250-8768
Guillermo Banzato is a Professor, Bachelor and Doctor of History at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. He is the Representative in Europe of CygnusMind, services for scientific journals and Executive Director of Books2bits editorial. He has been a Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata since 2014 until this year. He exercised as an Independent Investigator at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET, 2005-2023). He was editor in charge, director and member of committees of scientific journals in Argentina, Mexico and Spain. He has been a thesis judge, professor competition judge, project evaluator in different Argentine universities, CONICET and Agencia (MinCyT) and postgraduate careers in CONEAU, Argentina. He has directed and directs research projects, undergraduate and graduate theses, doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and researchers. Served as Prosecretario de Gestión Editorial y Difusión of the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, between 2013 and 2020. He served as Executive Secretary of the international initiative Ameli Conocimiento Abierto (2018-2020) and was a Member of the Advisory Council for the Especialización en Gestión de la Información Científica y Tecnológica, UNLP (2015-2022).
ORCID: 0000-0002-7996-9660
Fernanda Beigel is a Sociologist, PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). She carried out her postdoctoral studies at the Center de Sociologie Européenne (EHESS, Paris). Chaired the UNESCO Committee of Experts in Open Science, which prepared the Preliminary Recommendation for Open Science, approved in November 2021. Received the Bernardo Houssay Award (2003), Primer Premio Concurso Ensayos CLACSO (2004), and the Mention of Honor to Scientific Value, Senate of the Argentine Nation (2017). She currently coordinates the Comité Nacional de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana (MINCYT, Argentina), is an advisor at the Foro Latinoamericano de Evaluación de la Ciencia (FOLEC-CLACSO) and is part of the Advisory Group of DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment). She is a researcher at CONICET and Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, where she directs the Centro de Estudios de la Circulación del Conocimiento (CECIC).
ORCID: 0000-0003-3056-3739
Humberto Debat is a permanent researcher at INTA-Argentina. He studied the virus-host interface from a systems biology perspective. Humberto is a member of the Consejo de Dirección de Instituto-UFyMA, technical manager of CIAP-INTA in the National System of Genomic Data and has participated in the Proyecto Argentino de Genómica del SARS-CoV-2. Humberto is a member of the Comité Nacional de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana of the Ministry of Science of Argentina. Humberto has been a fellow of ASAPbio and ambassador of the eLife community. Humberto is an affiliate of the bioRxiv preprint server and co-creator of PanLingua, a multilingual tool for discovering and reading preprints in the biomedical sciences. Humberto has published more than 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles, dozens of preprints, has played diverse editorial roles in several academic journals, has given multiple talks and presentations at conferences, has taught in undergraduate and graduate courses, and has conducted several interviews and national and international disclosure notes.
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