OASPA announces its next webinar, which will focus on the data that exists about scholarly communication. Such data includes anything that enables us to expose and analyze the processes, connections, and entities involved in the research communication. 

However, most of our current data doesn’t fully cover the research output of the Global South and is unrepresentative and incomplete. OASPA will address issues of inequity and discuss the challenges in sourcing data that is truly representative of global knowledge creation. OASPA will also discuss the governance and funding it will take to create a coherent and equitable system. There is an inherent conflict between proprietary and closed datasets available only to those who can afford them versus an open universe of data that enables all communities involved in knowledge generation to contribute, access, and analyze data.

The webinar will be chaired by Iryna Kuchma and Catriona Maccallum, with panelists Lucy Montgomery,  Ludo Waltman, and Caleb Kibet. 

Please join live for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion.

Link to the registration page. 

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