Open Access Encounters The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Programme Please click on a presentation title or speaker for more details. 09:00 REGISTRATION AND TEA 09:30 Opening and welcome MC Nikki Crowster (University of Cape Town) 09:35 Open Access — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Uta Grothkopf (European Southern Observatory) 10:15 Make African Research Discoverable: Towards a continental Open Science Vision Dr Nokuthula Mchunu (NRF: African Open Science Platform) 10:40 How read and publish agreements facilitate the transition of SA’s research from behind a paywall to open access Glenn Truran (SANLiC) 11:05 Open Research: Make Every Research Count Dr Patiswa Zibane (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) 11:30 TEA 12:00 Accelerating the impact of African scholarship through an alternate open access publishing model Jill Claassen & Sai Maharaj (University of Cape Town) 12:25 Astronomy data services in the new landscape of national and international Open Science initiatives Mark Allen & Soizick Lesteven (Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre) 12:50 The Open Access Transition – A Publisher’s Perspective Johanna Kuhn (Springer Nature) 13:15 LUNCH 13:45 Open Science Access in South Africa’s Astronomy Landscape Dr Aletha de Witt (Department of Science and Innovation) 14:10 Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics Prof Peter Coles (Maynooth University, Ireland) 14:35 Closing 15:00 Short talk and tour of the South African Astronomical Observatory Cape Town Campus Prof Ian Glass (SAAO)
