Panel: OA and the Value of Selectivity with Liz Ferguson

Moderator: Liz Ferguson, VP, Open Research, Wiley, Oxford
The session builds on the numerous discussions over the last couple of years on how to make OA work in an equitable and sustainable manner for selective journals across a widely divergent global open access landscape. A principled discussion on the inherent value of the different dimensions of selectivity applied by academic journals (e.g. for quality of research, for the importance (which includes a number of different definitions), for the depth and breadth of the research findings, for the integrity of the research, for its novelty/conceptual advance, or for its newsworthiness, etc.) seems timely to reaffirm the value of this selectivity and to ensure OA moves away from being labelled a process uniquely suited for lower selectivity publishing. In particular, we also want to focus on how to make highly selective OA work.
Panelists will evaluate content related bottlenecks in current OA business models and will provide recommendations and examples for solutions.

Publishing in OA Journals and Researcher Choice
Dr. Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Structural Biology, Uppsala University
Dimensions of Selectivity and how they add Value
Dr. Bernd Pulverer, Chief Editor of The EMBO Journal and Head of Scientific Publications, EMBO, Heidelberg
Financial Transparency and the Cost of Quality
Alison Mudditt, CEO, Public Library of Science (PLOS), San Francisco, CA
Crisis in Communication: the Functions and Future of selective Journals
Dr. James Butcher, VP Journals, Nature Portfolio and BMC, Springer Nature, London