Past Forums

October 17, 2024

2024 Library Publishing Forum

Keynote Speaker

Katherine Skinner

Katherine Skinner is an open knowledge researcher-activist with deep commitments to community building, organizational resilience, and systems thinking. She currently serves as Research Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure, a nonprofit organization that works to increase the investment in and adoption of open infrastructure to further equitable access to and participation in research. Prior to this post, her passion for facilitating, empowering, and cultivating communities led her to help found the Educopia Institute in 2006, where she served as Executive Director for 16 years, There, she provided scaffolding, training, and systems to support the founding and growth of such collaborative groups as Library Publishing Coalition, MetaArchive Cooperative, BitCurator Consortium, C4DISC, Software Preservation Network, and Maintainers. She also co-authored Community Cultivation: A Field Guide (2018) to provide an open, practical guide to this type of work.

She has co-edited three books and has authored and co-authored numerous reports and articles. She has served as Principal Investigator for 24 research projects funded by foundations and federal grants and awards on topics like education (Nexus LAB, Bitcurator.edu), digital curation (Chronicles in Newspaper Preservation, OSSArcFlow), and scholarly communication (Library Publishing Workflows, Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure). She lives with her family (partner, two teens, two felines, and a canine) in Greensboro, NC, in the US.

Keynote Title: Moments, movements, and momentum: What comes next?

Description: A decade ago, Educopia, together with 60 universities, seed-funded and hosted the inaugural Library Publishing Forum. In that formation moment, library publishers forged a collective identity and shared crucial information with each other about how their publishing ideas and experiments were becoming institutionalized as new scholarly publishing practices. Over the last decade, we’ve seen library publishing grow into a full-fledged movement that shares close ties to the open access, open source, and open infrastructure movements. This talk will take us back to revisit the vision and aims declared in the early years and look at the ways these have manifested since that time. Skinner will sketch out the story of how that initial moment has spurred the larger movement of “library publishing” and look at its connections to other social movements both past and present. Skinner will also challenge us to think together about our current momentum and plans and will ask us what stories we want to tell at the celebration in 2034 of our second decade together.

November 10, 2022

2023 Library Publishing Forum

Keynote Speakers

Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo is Distinguished Teaching Faculty III in the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Information School. She has written and presented internationally on privacy, copyright, scholarly publishing, and data curation. As co-investigator for the Data Doubles research project, she helped investigate undergraduates’ perceptions of privacy around campus Big Data practices. Salo holds an MA in Library and Information Studies and another in Spanish from UW-Madison.

Keynote Title: She Can’t Say That, Can She?

Description: Library publishing is becoming an integral part of libraries’ public face in academia. Given widespread attention to ethics failures in academic publishing more broadly, it behooves us to put our own publishing-ethics house in order. Library learning analytics provides multiple distressing examples of LIS publications with fairly glaring ethical flaws. How did matters devolve this far? Why aren’t we talking more about it? Are we even allowed to?

Deborah Poff

Deborah Poff is a retired Professor of Philosophy and Senior Academic Administrator. She holds four degrees from three universities in Canada (University of Guelph, Queen’s University, Carleton University). Her PhD was in Philosophy of Science and her MA was in Philosophy of Mind. Her two undergraduate degrees were a BA Honours in Psychology and a BA Honours in Philosophy. During Deborah’s career, she was variously the Director of a Research Institute; a Dean of Arts and Science; a Vice-President Academic and Provost and a President and Vice-Chancellor at various Canadian Universities.

During her career, she has also been an active researcher, teacher and editor and is the founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics which she edited for over 20 years. She was the Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics for over 30 years. She is currently the Editor of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, published by University of Toronto Press. Throughout her career, she has been the editor of five scholarly journals, a book series and has published numerous other monographs and anthologies. Her research and publication areas are: Applied Ethics, including Business and Professional Ethics; Research Ethics, Publication Ethics, Leadership Ethics and Feminist Studies. In 1995, she was awarded a lifetime honorary membership by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women in the category of “Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship”. Her most recent publication is an anthology entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance”. Her monograph in progress is on the history of discrimination from Aristotle to Now. She has recently completed the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics.

Among her many service accomplishments, she served nine years on the Committee on Publication Ethics Council and Board of Trustees, including in the role of Chair and is a recognized leader in the field of publication ethics. She also served as the President of the National Council for Human Participant Protection in Canada. She has served as a leader and participant member of many organizations and committees, including the British Columbia Degree Granting Committee for the government of British Columbia. She has also been the lead of many learned societies, including as the President of the Women’s Studies Association of Canada.

In 2016, Deborah Poff was awarded the Order of Canada through the Office of the Governor General of Canada.

Keynote Title: The State of Play in Current Major Forms of Deception in Publishing: Predatory Publishing, Paper Mills and ChatGPT

October 4, 2021

LP Forum 2022

Keynote Speakers

We’re pleased to share a list of the keynote speakers for the virtual Forum event and for the in-person Forum in Pittsburgh. More information about the speakers and their topics will be posted when available. List is subject to change.

Keynotes for the virtual Forum event (May 18–19)

Dr. Jane Anderson, NYU, co-director, Local Contexts

Jane Anderson is an Associate Professor at New York University in Lenapehoking (New York) and Global Fellow in the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy in the Law School at NYU. Jane has a Ph.D. in Law and works on intellectual and cultural property law, Indigenous rights and the protection of Indigenous/traditional knowledge and cultural heritage. For the last 20 years Jane has been working for and with Indigenous communities to find, access, control, and regain authority and ownership of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property collections and data within universities, libraries, museums and archives. Jane is co-founder of Local Contexts which delivers the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices. She is also the co-founder of the Equity for Indigneous Research and Innovation Co-ordinating Hub (ENRICH) which is a collaboration between NYU and the University of Waikato, NZ.

Janne Pölönen, Secretary General, Publication Forum, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

Janne Pölönen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-0879) works as the Secretary General of Publication Forum at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Since 2010, he has developed the national community-curated quality classification of peer-reviewed journals and book publishers, which supports the performance-based research funding system of Finnish universities. His recent publications are in the fields of research evaluation, bibliometrics, scholarly communication and open science. He is also involved in policy work, including the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, the National recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland, and EOSC Co-creation project on Making FAIReR Assessments Possible.

Keynotes for the in-person Forum in Pittsburgh (May 25–26)

Christen Smith, Founder of Cite Black Women and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Christen A. Smith is a Black feminist anthropologist and the creator of Cite Black Women.—a campaign that brings awareness to the race and gender politics of citation, and the erasure of Black women’s intellectual contributions in global society. In 2018 Cite Black Women was listed as one of the Top 10 Issues by Essence Magazine; featured by The Times Higher Education of London. In 2018 Cite Black Women also launched its podcast, which was listed as one of the Top Podcasts by Black Women for Black Women by The Grio in 2019.

In addition to her work on citation and Black women’s intellectual contributions to the Americas, Christen researches the immediate and long-term impact of police violence on Black communities in the Americas–particularly on Black families and Black women. She is the author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil , which won Honorable Mention for the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) in 2017. Her research and writing has been featured in a wide range of public media outlets including Democracy Now!, Al-Jazeera, BBC’s World Have Your Say, Pacifica Radio, The New York Times, The Nation, PBS NewsHour, Maclean’s (Canada), The Feminist Wire, and in the Brazilian magazine Caros Amigos.

Christen is an associate professor of anthropology and African and African diaspora studies, and director of the Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Closing Panel

Marcia Rapchak, University of Pittsburgh

Marcia Rapchak is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaching in the MLIS program. Her research and teaching interests include information literacy, online learning, and critical librarianship. Previously, she was Head of Teaching and Learning in Gumberg Library at Duquesne University. She received her MA in English from The Ohio State University, her MSLS from the University of Kentucky, and her doctorate in Instructional Technology from Duquesne University. Marcia is on the Council of Representatives for the union at Pitt and was involved in unionizing efforts since 2019.

Chloe Mills, Robert Morris University

Chloe has recently stepped up to be University Librarian at Robert Morris University after 14 years of working there as a librarian. Prior to moving into administration she was a union member, union liaison, and then union treasurer in her tenure as a faculty librarian. Her research interests are unionization and collective bargaining in higher education, with a focus on the concerns of academic librarians, business librarianship, and library management.

Chloe has her library science MLIS from University of Pittsburgh and an MA in Classical Studies from the University of Illinois. She received a BA in Linguistics and Philosophy from Reed College in Portland, OR. She has worked formerly as a maid, a driver, graduate assistant, video store manager, high school Latin teacher, and phone interviewer. She has two children, Cassius (11) and Anne Elizabeth (7) Cothran Morrissey, whom she manages to raise and love while fulfilling her expanding work duties, maintaining her many meaningful friendships, reading eclectically, and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Rachel Masilamani, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Rachel Masilamani has provided reference and instruction services in academic, public, and special libraries for over 25 years. She believes that libraries are powerful places for breaking down barriers to information access, building communities, and helping everyone access the resources they need to achieve success on their own terms. From 2011-2021, Rachel assisted entrepreneurs seeking to start their own businesses at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. She was also a founding organizer of the United Library Workers (ULW) union, and a bargaining committee representative for first contract negotiations.

Lauren B. Collister, University of Pittsburgh (moderator)

Lauren B. Collister, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. She oversees the library publishing program as well as the repository, copyright and intellectual property, and open scholarship initiatives for the library. Building on her background in linguistics, she currently researches language and advocacy for open scholarship, and is co-editor of the 2022 Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management published open access from MIT Press. Read more about Lauren’s work at http://www.laurenbcollister.com

October 5, 2020

LPForum 2021

The 2021 Library Publishing Forum will be a virtual conference. We are excited to be able to share Forum programming with the library publishing community as travel and large gatherings are impossible.

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May 10–14 | 12:00 PM to 5 PM Eastern Time

March 26, 2020

LPForum 2020

For the first time in 2020, we will hold the Forum virtually. We are excited to be able to share Forum programming with the library publishing community at a time when travel and large gatherings are impossible, while extending our ongoing thanks to the University of Massachusetts Medical School for their work as the host of our planned in-person conference.

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May 4-8 | noon to 5 PM Eastern Time

September 1, 2019

LPForum 2019

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

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Keynote: Dr. Arianna Becerril-García

Dr. Becerril-Garcia has a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, a Master in Computer Sciences from the same institution, and Computing Engineer from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM). She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and co-founder of the Mexican Network of Institutional Repositories (REMERI). She founded AmeliCA, a community-driven initiative for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South. She has published numerous papers in research journals as well as three books. She has participated in more than 40 national and international conferences. Her research topics are open access, interoperability technologies, visibility of science, semantic web and linked data. Her recent works and international conferences are “A Semantic Model for Selective Knowledge Discovery over OAI-PMH Structured Resources”, Information (Switzerland, 2018); “The end of a centralized Open Access project and the beginning of a community-based sustainable infrastructure for Latin America: Redalyc.org after fifteen years.”, ELPUB (Toronto, 2018), “The Open Access Model in Latin America”, COASP (Washington, DC, 2016); “Redalyc – ORCID integration: Inserting Latin-American authors in the global scientific conversation”, ORCID (Washington, DC, 2016).

September 20, 2018

LPForum 2018

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

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Keynote: Catherine Kudlick

After two decades at the University of California, Davis, Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France and “Disability History: Why We Need Another Other” in the American Historical Review. She oversaw completion of Paul Longmore’s posthumously published book, Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity. She is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Disability History with Michael Rembis and Kim Nielsen. As director of the Longmore Institute, she directed the public history exhibit “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights” and co-hosts Superfest International Disability Film Festival. She has been active in electronic accessibility initiatives, first at UC Davis and more recently in public advocacy.

March 22, 2017

LPForum 2017

Keynote Speakers

Eileen Joy

Eileen is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies, as well as a para-academic rogue, and a publisher, with interests in poetry and poetics, historiography, ethics, and embodiments, queer studies, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the ecological, the post/human, and scholarly communications. She is the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, Editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Founding Director of the open-access academic press punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion, and Associate Director of punctum records. She lives in Santa Barbara, California where she also works with faculty, librarians, and students at UC-Santa Barbara on various open-access and maker lab initiatives.

Safiya Noble

Safiya is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She also holds appointments in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. Her research on the design and use of applications on the Internet is at the intersection of race, gender, culture, and technology. Her forthcoming monograph interrogates the social justice implications of racist and sexist algorithmic bias (forthcoming, NYU Press). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of two books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online(Peter Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design (Elsevier, 2015). Safiya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in library & information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in sociology from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis on African American/ethnic Studies.

May 19, 2016

LPForum 2016

Keynote Speakers

Cheryl E. Ball

Cheryl is Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University and editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She teaches classes in editing, multimedia authoring, and digital publishing. Ball has published articles and webtexts on multimodal composition and digital publishing inClassroom Discourse, Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Fibreculture, Convergence, Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, Programmatic Perspectives, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Writing & Pedagogy. She has also published several books, including The New Work of Composing (co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman); RAW: Reading and Writing New Media (co-edited with Jim Kalmbach); andWriter/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects (co-authored with Kristin Arola & Jenny Sheppard). She is co-PI on a $1m Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to build an open-access, multimedia, academic publishing platform, Vega.

Dan Morgan

Dan is Digital Science Publisher at the University of California Press, and the Publisher of Collabra (Collabra.org), the Press’ new value-sharing OA journal. He joined UC Press in June 2014 to focus on mission-driven, not-for-profit, digital initiatives. He has worked in scholarly publishing for over 13 years, in publishing management, research, open access, and strategy roles. All of that time was at Elsevier where he ended up the head of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences journals department, then Senior Manager for Open Access and other outreach for North America. He is a passionate advocate for open access, open science, and advancing scholarly communication.

March 30, 2015

LP Forum 2015

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Martin Paul Eve

Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK, specialising in contemporary American fiction, primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Martin is the author of two books, Pynchon and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014) and Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014). In addition, Martin is well-known for his work on open access, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academic Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Access Steering Group, the Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Group and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel and founding the Open Library of Humanities.

Dr. John Willinsky

John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, as well as Professor (Part-Time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which conducts research and develops open source scholarly publishing software in support of greater access to knowledge. His books include the Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994); Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998); Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000); and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).

Recordings of selected sessions are available via New Prairie Press.