Oct 23 | 13:00-14:00 (CEST):
AAU OPEN: Two Years of University-Led Diamond Open Access Publishing
Kathrine Bjerg Bennike, Senior Consultant at Aalborg University Library and Lead of AAU OPEN.
In this webinar, we will introduce AAU OPEN, Aalborg University's Diamond Open Access publisher and competence unit for Open Access. The session focuses on our publishing activities and experiences as a university-led open access publisher. AAU OPEN provides free and open access to a broad range of research and dissemination outputs, including monographs, edited volumes, reports, book series, journals, and other publication formats.
We publish books and other scholarly publications on the national Open Access platform, Open Books. We also host AAU's Open Access journals through AAU OPEN Journals and serve as the publisher of Aalborg University's PhD theses. Drawing on two years of experience establishing and running a university-owned Diamond Open Access publisher, we will share key lessons learned, discuss priorities and challenges, and reflect on future opportunities. We will also explore how we support authors and maintain high standards of quality and scholarly integrity across our publications.
This webinar may be of interest to anyone who would like to learn more about operating a Diamond Open Access publisher and its role in a changing scholarly communication landscape, where dissemination, accessibility, and research assessment are increasingly interconnected.
Kathrine Bjerg Bennike is a Senior Consultant at Aalborg University Library and Lead of AAU OPEN. She has played a central role in establishing both the Open Access competence unit and the publishing platform. Kathrine holds a PhD in the social sciences and works with Open Science, Open Access publishing, research assessment, scholarly communication, and research dissemination.