In March 2018, I joined the Open Science Team at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where I deal with all matters Open Access - publishing, funding and costs, infrastructure, policy and more. Before I came to Bern, I spent eight years at the University of Heidelberg, Germany where I ran the Publications Office of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. In a previous life, I was a specialist in Russian literature and cinema… Learn more about Andrea Hacker here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9283-594X

Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003 with an emphasis on marketing and digital publishing. In this capacity he became a co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Moving on to the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011 as head of publishing he created a Nordic open access policy and publication repository. Since 2014 Niels Stern has acted as independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. He has evaluated and reviewed numerous European projects, e.g. HIRMEOS and OPERAS-D. In 2017 he joined the Royal Danish Library as head of department, managing licence portfolios for five universities and serving as chief negotiator for the national licence consortium. Niels Stern holds a Master of Arts degree from University of Copenhagen (Nordic Literature and Languages) and a Master of Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London (Communication). He has published articles on open access and other subjects and in 2017 he co-authored the Knowledge Exchange Landscape study on monographs and open access together with Frances Pinter and Eelco Ferwerda. Read more about Niels Stern here: https://www.oapen.org/oapen/7664742-team

Joe Deville is a Senior Lecturer based jointly in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the Department of Sociology. His research interests include: The everyday, embodied life of debt, credit and finance Informational mobility, methods of algorithmic prediction, futures of credit scoring Open Access and the politics of academic knowledge production Disaster preparedness and the production/materialisation of risk Science and technology studies, speculative sociology, non-representational theory Digital methods Read more about Joe Deville here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/joseph-deville

Master in Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP). Graduated in Librarianship from Faculdades Integradas Coração de Jesus (FAINC) and Post-Graduated in Teaching in Higher Education. Member of the Coordination of the SciELO / FAPESP Program (www.scielo.br) where she performs the role of Coordinator of the SciELO Books Project, in which she participated in all phases of project implementation, being responsible for managing the production of ebooks and exporting metadata for national and international indexing bases. Read more about Amanda Ramalho here: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3021040423162521

I am a curator at the National Library of Scotland, with particular responsibility for Scottish Communities and Organisations. I am also a co-founder and one of the current editors of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance, a member of the Radical Open Access Collective. I previously worked as a Research Fellow with COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish. I now sit on the Board of Stewards of the Open Book Collective, which grew out of COPIM. Before this I worked in Turkey teaching English Literature and Cultural Studies, first at İstanbul Kültür University (IKU) and then at Bilkent University in Ankara. I’ve also previously worked as an EAP teacher and tutor at the University of Edinburgh, and as a translator and an EFL teacher in Italy. Read More about Patrick Hart here: https://hcommons.org/members/patrickhenryhart/

Eileen Fradenburg Joy is the Director of punctum books and has published widely on medieval literature, cultural studies, intellectual and literary history, ethics, the post/human, and speculative realism. She is the founding editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, and is also the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, as well as the co-editor of The Postmodern Beowulf (West Virginia University Press, 2007), Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2007), Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (punctum, 2012), Speculative Medievalisms: Discography (punctum, 2013), On Style: An Atelier (punctum, 2013), Fragments for a History of Vanishing Humanism (Ohio State, 2016), and After the “Speculative Turn”: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism (punctum, 2016). Read more about Eileen Fradenburg Joy here: https://punctumbooks.com/people/eileen-joy/

Reggie Raju, PhD, is the Director (Research & Learning Services) at the University of Cape Town Libraries. He has been in academic libraries for more than 35 years. He is the author of several publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals, chapters in books and a book publication. His research focus is on research librarianship with an emphasis on open access and library publishing. Reggie is a C2 NRF rated researcher with the research focus of open access. He serves as a special advisor to national negotiations with vendors. Reggie is currently a member of the Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee of IFLA. Reggie is currently the Chair of SPARC Africa and is driving the social justice agenda of open access for Africa. He served on the editorial board of Journal of librarianship and scholarly communication and South African journal of libraries and information science. Reggie is currently leading a number of projects at the national and continental levels.

Dr. Lidia Uziel is the Associate University Librarian for Research Resources and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, where she holds leadership, management, strategic policy, and planning responsibilities for collection development and management functions, the scholarly communication program, and technical services operations. At the University of California, she works very closely with the leadership of the California Digital Library and is a member of the Shared Content Leadership Group. Prior to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lidia held several leadership positions at Harvard and at Yale University Libraries. Learn more about Lidia Uziel here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-1284

Dr. Cheryl E. Ball is an independent consultant with more than 25 years of open-access publishing experience. She is senior editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and has worked as a faculty member in US institutions for 14 years, where she taught multimedia authoring, digital publishing, editing, pedagogy, and academic professionalization. She runs international digital publishing workshops called KairosCamps for authors, editors, and publishers and is Executive Director of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Learn More about Cheryl Ball here: https://cherylball.org/about

Eileen Fradenburg Joy is the Director of punctum books and has published widely on medieval literature, cultural studies, intellectual and literary history, ethics, the post/human, and speculative realism. She is the founding editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, and is also the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, as well as the co-editor of The Postmodern Beowulf (West Virginia University Press, 2007), Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2007), Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (punctum, 2012), Speculative Medievalisms: Discography (punctum, 2013), On Style: An Atelier (punctum, 2013), Fragments for a History of Vanishing Humanism (Ohio State, 2016), and After the “Speculative Turn”: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism (punctum, 2016). Read more about Eileen Fradenburg Joy here: https://punctumbooks.com/people/eileen-joy/

Dr. Lidia Uziel is the Associate University Librarian for Research Resources and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In that role, she holds leadership, management, strategic policy, and planning responsibilities for collection development and management functions, the UCSB Library’s scholarly communication program, and technical services operations. She provides strategic direction and oversees four major departments: Collection Strategies, Scholarly Communication, Special Research Collections, and Resource Acquisition & Services Department. At the University of California, she works very closely with the leadership of the California Digital Library (CDL) and is a member of the Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG), a system-wide leadership group that provides leadership and coordination of shared UC-system-wide collection and content, scholarly communication, and Open Access initiatives and resources. Prior to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lidia held several leadership positions at Harvard University Libraries and at Yale University Libraries. Lidia served as a member and chair of the IFLA’s Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee during the past few years. Alongside several professional engagements, she is a Standing Committee member of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)/SPARC U.S., an Advisory Board Member of the Next-Generation Library Publishing (NGPL) Coalition, a Co-PI on the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project, a member of the Board of Stewards of the Open Book Collective (sponsored by COPIM) and a member of the International Collections and Content Group (ICC), Center for Research Libraries in the U.S. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal in Canada, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University in France, a Master in French Literature from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, a Master in Library and Information Science from the University of Montreal, and a Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages from the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland. She did a post-doctorate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and completed several doctoral research stays in Russia at the Saint Petersburg State University and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Lidia published « Les métamorphoses de l’intériorité. Roman et psyché dans leur déroulement historique ». Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2010. Learn more about Lidia Uziel here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-1284

I am a curator at the National Library of Scotland, with particular responsibility for Scottish Communities and Organisations. I am also a co-founder and one of the current editors of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance, a member of the Radical Open Access Collective. I previously worked as a Research Fellow with COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish. I now sit on the Board of Stewards of the Open Book Collective, which grew out of COPIM. Before this I worked in Turkey teaching English Literature and Cultural Studies, first at İstanbul Kültür University (IKU) and then at Bilkent University in Ankara. I’ve also previously worked as an EAP teacher and tutor at the University of Edinburgh, and as a translator and an EFL teacher in Italy. Read More about Patrick Hart here: https://hcommons.org/members/patrickhenryhart/

Janneke Adema is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. In her research, she explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production, where her work incorporates processual and performative publishing, radical open access, scholarly poethics, media studies, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory. She explores these issues in depth in her various publications, but also by supporting a variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, and Post Office Press (POP). You can follow her research, as it develops, on openreflections.wordpress.com. Read more about Janneke Adema here: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/janneke-adema

With a background in Cultural and Media Studies (MA in Television Studies), Toby is currently working as project manager on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. For the last thirteen years, he has worked with projects that sought to foster uptake of OER and OpenEducation practices, FLOSS tools for teaching and learning, and OpenScience in more general terms and in a variety of configurations. He is interested in exploring Open Scholarship practices in their many facets, currently with a focus on scholar-and community-led open access books infrastructures particularly for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Read more about Toby Steiner here: https://flavoursofopen.science/