It won’t be long until our second DOAJ at 20 event is live, with eight fantastic speakers from different parts of the world. We’re also lucky to have one of our very own DOAJ Ambassadors, Ivonne Lujano, moderating the event, and our Head of Outreach and Advocacy, Tom Olyhoek, will be opening and closing the event.
To help you get as excited as we are about the upcoming event, we thought it would be great to get to know all these fantastic speakers in more detail!
Remember you can still register for the event here.
Tom Olyhoek
Head of Outreach and Advocacy, DOAJ
Tom Olyhoek has been living and working in Africa for many years. After obtaining his PhD in molecular microbiology from Amsterdam University (1982), he was at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin for 7 years. He has spent seven years in Kenya and Algeria doing research on malaria, sleeping sickness and meningococcal epidemics. In 2012 he started advocating for open access and open science as the Open Access Working Group Co-ordinator for Open Knowledge International. In 2013 he became a member of the DOAJ advisory board, which was instrumental in redefining the criteria for being indexed in DOAJ. From 2014 until July 2023, he was Editor in Chief at the DOAJ. Starting July 2023, he is Head of Outreach and Advocacy for DOAJ and Outreach Consultant for DOAB.
From 2023-2025 the DOAJ Outreach program has a particular focus on Africa. He has also been a member of the Programming Committee at Force11, where he taught at the yearly Force11 Summer School on the topic of evaluating scientific quality for journals, articles and individual scholars. His current research interests are copyright and licensing in open access publishing, development of new ways to assess the quality of scholars and scholarly works and he also follows research in the area of soil microbiology in relation to soil health and human health (microbiome research).
Ivonne Lujano
Moderator
Ivonne Lujano Vilchis is a PhD student in Education Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an emphasis on Education. She has worked in scholarly communication and open access since 2011. As DOAJ ambassador she has collaborated with several universities and government agencies on the adoption of best practice for scholarly publications, and open science policies. She serves as a section editor of Current Issues of Education, a journal produced by doctoral students at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University. Her research interests focus on higher education systems, research evaluation, science policy, open access, scholarly communication, and open science. Ivonne also has a background in dance, and she is currently an amateur tango dancer.
Saurabh Khanna
Speaker
Saurabh Khanna is a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in education policy and computer science at Stanford University, where he was a Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and a Scholar at Stanford Data Science. Saurabh’s research revolves around misinformation and quantifying ‘incompleteness’ in information searches on the Internet, as well as assessing the effects of consistently consuming incomplete information at scale on human behavior.
Josie Caplehorne
Speaker
Josie is the Research and Innovation Support Manager, Culture and Governance, at the University of Kent. She is an experienced Higher Education professional with over 10 years’ working across research and scholarly communication support, management and information systems, curation and discovery, and equality, diversity and inclusivity. She was recently headhunted to and successfully completed a secondment as Management and Information Systems Manager with Research and Innovation Services.
She is also a Staff Disability Network Co-Chair and an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Representative. Outside of Kent, she is an invited member of the Publishers Accessibility Action Group and the National Association for Disabled Staff Networks. Her recent publications include Embedding accessibility in research support and scholarly communication systems and processes, and Ableism and exclusion: challenging academic cultural norms in research communication.
Gimena del Rio Riande
Speaker
Dr. Gimena del Rio Riande is Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual (CONICET, Argentina) and Professor at the University of Salvador. She holds a MA and PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Her main academic interests deal with Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarly Editions and Open Research Practices in the Humanities.
She is the director of the Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales HD LAB and she coordinates a postgraduate certificate in Digital Humanities in Argentina. Among her many academic activities, she is one of the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Ambassadors for Latin America.
Ikhwan Arief
Speaker
Ikhwan is a faculty member in the Industrial Engineering Department at Universitas Andalas, Indonesia. He is an enthusiastic photography hobbyist. He joined DOAJ in 2018 as an ambassador and gradually became a volunteer editor. He used to manage the university’s library information system, including establishing the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and the repository servers. He is keenly interested in data science, primarily in industrial and manufacturing systems research. He has been assisting Indonesian journal managers in their application to DOAJ.
Susan Murray
Speaker
For 16 years, Susan Murray has been the Director of African Journals OnLine (www.ajol.info); a South African NPO working for increased accessibility, awareness and quality of African-published research. AJOL is the largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals, and provides various services including OA resources, publishing quality assessment and training to approved journal partners.
Murray has an academic background in Development Economics and a deep commitment to the constructive role that emerging economies can play in setting equitable research agendas for their citizens’ well-being, by increasing prominence of and access to relevant Global South research outputs.
Murray is an Advisory Committee Member and Board Director of several regional and global scholarly initiatives, an experienced workshop facilitator, and a frequent conference speaker.
Abel L. Packer
Speaker
Abel L. Packer is director of the SciELO / FAPESP Program, former director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization of the World Health Organization, and former deputy director of the Computer Center of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master of Library Science with extensive experience in information science, librarianship, information technology, and information management.
Gu Liping
Speaker
Gu Liping is the Head of Science and Technology Information Policy at the National Science Library at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a researcher on Open Science and Knowledge Organization. His research interests include the development of Open Science and the development of data science in the fields of science, education, culture and sports. Gu Liping is also a member of several organizations, such as the Academic Committee of the ISTIC-Springer Nature Open Science Joint Laboratory and COAR Multilingual and non-English content in repositories. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Youth Development Federation.
Vrushali Dandawate
Speaker
Vrushali is the Head Librarian at AISSMS College of Engineering, College Pune, Maharashtra, India, and she holds a Ph.D. Degree from Reva University Banglore, India. Her research topic is “OPEN ACCESS E -RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA: A STUDY” Vrushali was the winner of the ALCTS Online Course Grant for Library Professionals from Developing Countries in 2014, and the INASP open access week competition in both the 2015 and 2016. She was invited to OpenCon 2017 in Berlin, Germany, and subsequently worked as a member of the organizing committee for OpenCon 2018 in Toronto, Canada. She also served as an advisory committee member for Open Access Week 2018-2019. She is selected as an advisory committee member of OpenDOAR and a conference committee member of the FORCE2021 Conference. She is an active Ambassador of DOAJ India.
We hope you can join us for the event on the 28th of September 2023, to hear all these wonderful speakers present. Registrations are open up until the webinar starts, register here.
