Presenting at The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London

~ Ernesto Priego
The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London #JanewayOA23 image

I will be presenting at the Open Library of Humanities’ The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing on Friday 8th September, 2023. The title of my panel participation is “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”, where I will discuss my experience as an editor managing peer review for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Thank you to the OLH for inviting me to participate!

Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming online

Dates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023

Cost: Free

Registration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup 

Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/programme

In celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the launch of the project of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open access journal publisher, and the five-year anniversary of Janeway, its ground-breaking open-source scholarly publishing platform, we are holding a symposium to explore future directions for Janeway engineering and open access publishing.

Since its launch, the Janeway and OLH team has built an international, award-winning, and critically acclaimed platform and is widely recognised to be one of the foremost academic-led publishers of open access scholarship in the humanities. As we look forward to the next five years, we aspire to consolidate our position as a leading open source scholarly publishing platform, innovate our software in line with user needs, and bring together our community to both increase visibility and make Janeway the very best platform of its kind. Accordingly, Janeway and OLH staff are hosting a symposium which will include presentations on best practice, future developments and breakout sessions to hear from our community as we work together to make these a reality. You can check the conference programme here

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Published by Ernesto Priego

My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.