Description: Scholars and practitioners with experience from various regions across the world share their insights about regional practices of scholarly publishing, issues of access, feedback on proposed open-access funding models, and their visions for how a global, open-access future might work. This small sampling of researchers’ perspectives provides some nuance to the complex problem of global scholarly communication.

Speakers

Nirmala Menon, Indian Inst. of Tech.

Williams Nwagwu, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

Rosario Rogel Salazar, U Autónoma del Estado de México

Presider

Amy Chen, U of Iowa