The AEUP is launching a new webinar series: the AEUP Roundtable, bringing together AEUP members and leading experts in various fields related to academic publishing.
Each session opens with a short presentation on a topic that matters to university presses today, followed by an open discussion. The Roundtable is designed as a space where members can ask the questions that don’t always have an obvious answer, share what they’re navigating in their own work, and learn from both the expert and each other.
No recording, no formality – just a good conversation around a shared table.
First session: Making sense of open access standards for monographs with Laura Bandura-Morgan
In the first event of the series, Laura Bandura-Morgan (OAPEN, DOAB) will walk us through good publishing practices for open access monographs, set against the backdrop of growing requirements from funders like the European Commission (Horizon Europe, ERC) and national and international funding agencies.
The presentation will cover the key building blocks of a compliant and high-quality OA publishing policy:
- Transparent peer review
- Clear licensing (Creative Commons)
- Long-term digital preservation
- Rich metadata, including subject classification, contributor information, and persistent identifiers (DOIs, ORCIDs, RORs, ISBNs) as infrastructure for discoverability and compliance
Drawing on the practical experience of DOAB and OAPEN, Laura will illustrate how these standards work in the real world. Plenty of time will be left for questions and open discussion.
About the Speaker
Laura Bandura-Morgan joined OAPEN and DOAB in 2022 as funder relations manager and as part of the team evaluating publishers applying for inclusion in DOAB and OAPEN. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and 10 years’ experience in open science, previously at Poland’s National Science Centre developing policies on research integrity, data management, and open access. She has also contributed to Science Europe and cOAlition S initiatives, and participated in the EU-funded PALOMERA project.
