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Webinar: The cOAlition S initiative and the road ahead

23 de septiembre de 2024|Nota informativa

Join us for an insightful presentation of cOAlition S, an initiative working towards making Open Access a reality for research publications.

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 (Santiago, Chile). Register here to watch the presentation and ask questions to the speaker. 

About the speaker:  

Johan Rooryck has been the Executive Director of cOAlition S since 2019, and also 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 after its Editorial Team and Board, as well as its reader and author community, decided to abandon the Elsevier-owned journal Lingua to establish 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 held the chair of French linguistics from 1993 to 2020.