Who we are

This project working group comprising leaders from the scientific publishing community acts as a sounding board for proposals emerging from the project steering committee.

• Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Professor, Publishing; Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project; Co-Director, Scholarly Communications Lab; Simon Fraser University
• Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, [Convenor of the working group]
• Arianna Becerril-Garcia, Executive Director, Redalyc, Network of Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal; Chair, AmeliCA, Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South; Professor, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
• Leslie Chan, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough; Director of Bioline International; Chair of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development.
• Helena Cousijn, Director of Community Engagement, DataCite
• Rupert Gatti, Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge; co-founder of Open Book Publishers
• Andrew Joseph, Digital Publisher, Wits University Press
• Pierre Mounier, OPERAS Coordinator; OpenEdition Associate Director; Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Co-Director
• Susan Murray, Executive Director, African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
• Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science (CERN)
• Damian Pattinson, Executive Director, eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
• Eloy Rodrigues, Director, University of Minho Libraries; Chair Executive Board, COAR – Confederation of Open Access Repositories
• Andrew Stammer, Director, CSIRO Publishing
• Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director, The Royal Society (UK)

The Scoping Group provided input on the report that was drafted in 2020.

• Bianca Amaro, President, La Referencia; and Coordinator of the Brazilian Open Science Program, Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology
• Dominique Babini, Open Science Advisor, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
• Michael Barber, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and former Vice-Chancellor, Flinders University
• Geoffrey Boulton (Chair and principal author), Regius Professor of Geology Emeritus, University of Edinburgh; Member of the International Science Council Governing Board
• Robin Crew, Senior Research Fellow (Entomology), Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria; Past-President, Academy of Science of South Africa
• Luke Drury, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and former President, Royal Irish Academy
• Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London
• Sari Hanafi, Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut; President, International Sociological Association
• Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries, USA
• Nathalie Lemarchand, Professor of Geography, University Paris 8; Vice-President, International Geographical Union
• Anna Mauranen, Professor of English Philology, University of Helsinki; President, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
• Ravi Murugesan, Associate, INASP
• Joseph Mwelwa, JointMindsConsult, Botswana
• François Robida, French Geological Survey (BRGM) and International Union of Geological Science Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Data
• Peter Strickland, Executive Managing Editor, International Union of Crystallography
• Paul Uhlir, Consultant on Information Policy and Management
• Zhang Xiaolin, Chinese Academy of Science, China.

This Group reviewed the report in mid-2020 and provided feedback to the ISC Governing Board.

• Pearl Dykstra (Chair), Director of Research of the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Hazami Habib, Chief Executive Officer, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
• Molapo Qhobela, Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation, South Africa
• Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (Berkman Klein Center), and Senior Researcher, Berkman Klein Center
• Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures, Technology & Society Studies, Maastricht University