Invited guests / Wyzwania współczesnego publikowania

Lidia Derfert-Wolf EBIB Association	Graduate of library and information science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She worked as a certified librarian at the Library of the Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology until 2022. She is the content coordinator of the BazTech database, a member of the EBIB Association and editor-in-chief of the "EBIB Bulletin". She is involved in library statistics and library performance evaluation, and worked with the AFBN team for many years. Speech title: Publishing activities of higher education libraries - an overview of development and forms of service
Margaret Nieborg University of Groningen	A project manager and coordinator of the University of Groningen Press (UGP). The UGP is part of the University Library. Margreet is an educationalist and has led various projects within the University Library, including setting up the University Press in 2017. UGP is an example of a new university press that currently hosts open access journals, books, and series. Margreet thinks that with the rise of new university presses new publishing models will rise and can, in a modest way, actively support open access. Speech title: Using open source infrastructure for open access scholarly publishing
Dorien van Rheenen University of Groningen	Dorien van Rheenen works at the University of Groningen Library as journal manager for University of Groningen Press. She helps editors to set up new journals or switch ('flip') from print to online. She has extensive experience in digitizing and (persistent) archiving printed journals. Furthermore she has technical knowledge of the open source system Open Journal Systems (OJS) from PKP and gives training to editors. Most of UGP's editors are researchers and practitioners but some are still students and run their own student-led journal. Dorien strongly believes that Open Access is very important for the free and inclusive dissemination of knowledge. Speech title: Using open source infrastructure for open access scholarly publishing
Sue Ann Gardner University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Professor Gardner is the Chair of Collections Strategy and Open Scholarship and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) in the USA. She is responsible for collaboratively shaping the collections strategies in the Libraries, including supporting open access initiatives. She has helped to build the institutional repository and to run the library publishing program at UNL. The repository has nearly 125,000 full text items which have been downloaded over 80,000,000 times. The library publishing operation has produced over 120 original books and oversees about a dozen journal titles. She is a designated copyright specialist in the library and is a member of the USA national-level University Intellectual Property Officers group. Speech title (on-line): Comparison of library publishing workflows by open access model
Aneta Drabek University of Silesia in Katowice	PhD in humanities (specialization: bibliology). Graduate of library and information science at the University of Silesia, senior graduate custodian at the Library of the University of Silesia. Among other things she deals with databases and their use in scientific practice. She conducts research focused on bibliometrics and scientometrics, especially issues related to journal evaluation and citation analysis, as well as issues related to open access and electronic journals. Speech title: Fees in Polish open access journals
Jesper Boserup Thestrup Royal Danish Library	Jesper Boserup Thestrup graduated from Aarhus University and started working at the Royal Danish Library in 2008. He is a part of the team working with the Open Journal System server and the Open Monograph Press server the library operates. This involves direct contact with editors, authors and other users. The work also includes cooperation with indexes like DOAJ and other similar servers in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. He has published articles about publication and data management. Speech title: Problems which journals have when they publish online
Tom Hashimoto Vistula University Vilnius University	LL.M., DPhil (Oxon), FHEA is Professor of Financial Economics (visiting) at ISM University in Vilnius, Associate Professor in Economics at Vilnius University, and Director of International Cooperation at Vistula University in Warsaw. He represents Vistula in the EU – wide research assessment coalition COARA. He specialises in the financial centre development in CEE, FinTech & Ethics, and inclusive growth in the financialised EU. Member of British Mensa, Lions Club Warszawa (Host). Speech title: Assessing Research in the Financialised, Polarised, and Automated Contemporary World
Grzegorz Tylec The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin	Professor Tylec is a lawyer and legal advisor, specializing in intellectual property law and media law. He holds the position of curator of the Chair of Rhetoric and Media Law at the Institute of Journalism and Management at KUL. He is a member of the boards of: the Polish Scientific Society of Press Law, the KOPIPOL Association, as well as a member of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies and an expert in intellectual property protection at the Institute for Higher Education Development. In 2016-2020, he served as: editor-in-chief of “KUL Research Bulletin”, member of the adjudicating panels of the disciplinary committee for academic staff of the KUL and disciplinary ombudsman of the KUL. He has conducted trainings for legal advisors, civil servants, journalists, editors of periodicals as well as judges and prosecutors as a lecturer at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution. Professor Tylec is the author of over a hundred scientific publications, including four monographs, and co-author of a commentary to the Industrial Property Law Act and a commentary to the Radio and Television Act. Speech title: Legal responsibility of the author, editor and publisher for the dissemination of scientific works made in violation of the law
Natalia Wysmyk Gdańsk University of Technology	Graduate of the University of Gdansk; in the profession of librarian since 2009, when she started working at the Library of the Medical University of Gdansk. Since 2014, she has been working at the Library of Gdansk University of Technology as head of the Collection Collection and Development Section. Her research interests include issues related to open publishing and the management and development of library collections. Speech title: Transformational contracts. A way to optimize open science
Kamila Kokot-Kanikuła Gdańsk University of Technology	She works at the Gdańsk University of Technology Library in the Building Digital and Multimedia Collections Services as a senior librarian. Her main areas of interest are old prints, digital libraries, institutional repositories, Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data. At the library, she works for the Pomeranian Digital Library and co-creates the database of publishing policies of Polish scientific journals located on the Multidisciplinary Open System Transferring Knowledge Platform. Speech title: How to help yourself and authors – a set of good practices to eliminate unconscious infringement
Joanna Błasiok Gdańsk University of Technology	She works at the Gdańsk University of Technology Library in the Scientific and Technical Information Services as a senior librarian. She graduated with a degree in scientific information and library science from the University of Wroclaw – specialization: digital libraries. At the Gdansk University of Technology Library she deals with copyright issues in the context of publishing full texts in the Open Access Repository, which is part of the Multidisciplinary Open System Transferring Knowledge Platform. Speech title: How to help yourself and authors – a set of good practices to eliminate unconscious infringement
Gabriel Borowski Lublin University of Technology	Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecological Engineering and Ecological Engineering & Environmental Technology, Managing Editor of the Advances in Science and Technology Research Journal. President of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Society of Ecological Engineering. Member of the Committee on Engineering and Technical Sciences of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of more than a hundred scientific publications and five monographs on industrial waste treatment and management. Speech title: By the thread to the ball, or from idea to publication
Jakub Szabelski Lublin University of Technology	Jakub Szabelski, PhD, engineer, is a research and teaching employee at the Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Department of Computerization and Robotization of Production, Department of Biomedical Engineering). His research interests include adhesion joint properties, manufacturing engineering, biomedical engineering, materials engineering, biomaterials. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 publications. Since 2012, he has been the editor of the journal Applied Computer Science (ACS), published at Lublin University of Technology since 2005, publishing on the Open Journal Systems publishing platform, indexed in the Scopus database since 2020. He reviews scientific papers for the journals: "Materials", "Applied Sciences", "Scientific Reports" and the conference "International Conference of Computational Methods in Engineering Science". Speech title: Evolution of the journal 'Applied Computer Science' (ACS)
Katarzyna Patyrak Research Intelligence Solutions Manager for Central&Eastern Europe in Elsevier	She graduated from Gdańsk University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology and completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She worked in the scientific environment for 7 years. As a Customer Consultant, she has worked with major universities and ministries in 20 countries in Central Europe; currently, as Research Intelligence Solutions Manager, she supports scientific institutions in managing their research potential and taking care of scientific visibility. Speech title: Streamline your scientific journal's publishing process and increase its visibility
Katarzyna Rosińska Polish Scientific Publishers PWN	She has been a publisher at Polish Scientific Publishers PWN for more than four years (she has gathered more than nineteen years of experience while working at various publishing houses). She is responsible for the valuation and paid scientific publications in the Division of Commissioned Publications, starting with economics, social sciences and ending with humanities, as well as the publication of books with partial funding from PWN in the Humanities Editorial Department (series "History of European Culture", "Library of Philosophy Classics", "Jews. Poland. Autobiography"). Until 2022 under her supervision was the Reference Editorial Department (dictionaries, language guides). Coordinates editorial and production publishing projects. Speech title: Tradition and modernity. Scientific publishing house PWN as a reliable selfpublishing platform
Piotr Kołacz Polish Scientific Publishers PWN	Manager with 27 years of experience in sales and marketing. He has completed a number of courses in project management, sales and customer service. Since 2012, he has been associated with Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, which operates the IBUK Libra platform for specialized, scientific and academic publications. He specializes in cooperation with universities, libraries, as well as public administration institutions and companies interested in the development and qualification of employees. Speech title: IBUK Libra – knowledge platform
Adam Sieradzki Helion Group	Graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun – majoring in library science and scientific and technical information. For more than two decades he has been associated with the financial and publishing industry. He has been working for Helion Group for over twelve years as a sales manager, involved in key projects of the company. Privately passionate about sailing and travel. Speech title: Modern educational platform BIBLIO ebookpoint as a response to the challenges of the modern electronic publishing market
Patrycja Głuch ARFIDO	National project manager in the sales department of Arfido Ltd. For 12 years, she has effectively assisted in the development and implementation of sales strategies in the library environment. She is a procurement specialist, she conducts a comprehensive analysis of requests for proposals, announcements of tenders, documentation, contractual terms and conditions in the company's business area. She has participated in many conferences organized by libraries, supporting them in the field of content and publishing. Speech title: Automation of libraries
Nina Katarina Štular Taylor & Francis	She studied Philosophy and English Literature at DePauw University and University of Oxford. She works on the Open Access team of Taylor & Francis where she discusses Open Research with institutions around the world and helps develop sustainable models for Open Access publication of journal articles and books. Her interest in Open Research originates in her academic work on freedom of expression and inquiry as she sees Open Access as an enabler of free exchange of information. Speech title: The Impact of Institutional Partnerships on Open Research Growth
Sebastian Wojnowski Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow	He has been involved in science communication since 1999, at first as a publisher of books and scientific journals. Since 2005, he has been in charge of the Publishing Section of the Polish Theological Society, in 2011-2016 and since 2021 he has been the Director of the Scientific Publishing House of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, and since 2022 he has been the Director of the Main Library. Since 2014, he has been teaching editorial studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University. Speech title: *Publication of metadata and digital identifiers in scientific monographs*
Joanna Brońka Carcow University of Health Promotion Facta Ficta Research Center	Graduated in scientific information and library science from the Pedagogical University of Krakow. Library manager, lecturer and employee of the Office for Persons with Disabilities at the Cracow University of Health Promotion. Her research interests include fantasy and pop culture and media. Since 2018, she has been associated with the Facta Ficta Research Center, dealing with the Facta Ficta Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media and the Perspectives of Postmodernity series. Speech title: Publishing activities of the KWSPZ and information services in medicine and related fields – problems of the humanist
Anna Zatora University of Lodz Library	Literary scholar, librarian, editor. Associated with the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Lodz and the journal „The Problems of Literary Genres” (2014–) and the Library of the University of Lodz (2015–). A graduate in philology and cultural studies, she received her PhD in literary studies (University of Lodz) in 2021, and in 2022 published the book Family Saga in 21st Century Polish Literature. Convention or contestation? Speech title: Surviving the tradition. Cooperation with the publisher as a way to a modern scientific journal („The Problems of Literary Genres”)
Mirella Nawracała-Urban The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin	Graduated in philosophy from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and postgraduate degree in library science with scientific information from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska. Since 1998 an employee of the Catholic University of Lublin. For 18 years she worked in the University Library of the Catholic University of Lublin, and since 2017 in the Institutional Repository of the Catholic University of Lublin. Specialist in open access, dissemination of scholarly output online, research data management. She has collaborated on many publishing projects, including the creation of the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Speech title: Open science publishing policies vs. dissemination of scientific output in open repositories
Agnieszka Matwis The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin	She graduated in theology from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. For 5 years she worked as a librarian at the University Library of the Catholic University of Lublin. Since 2018, she has been an employee of the Department of the Repository and Publication Positioning at the KUL Publishing House. She actively participated in the creation and development of the KUL Institutional Repository – ReKUL and the KUL Platform for Jurnals – CzasKUL. Speech title: Model of modern operation of scientific journal editors on the example of the CzasKUL Platform
Beata Jankowiak-Konik University of Warsaw	Graduate of the Institute of Art History and the Faculty of Psychology at University of Warsaw. For more than 20 years associated with the publishing industry. Editor of scientific publications, author of popular science articles, translator. From 2007 to 2013 editor and then head of the history department at Demart SA publishing house. From 2013 to 2018, editor-in-chief of the historical sciences department at University of Warsaw Press. Since 2019 she has been the director of University of Warsaw Press. Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Presses. Speech title: The role of academic publishers in the process of creating and publishing scientific journals
Magdalena Wnuk Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences	Cultural anthropologist, PhD in history (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) and migration researcher. She is currently Open Science Specialist at the Digital Humanities Centre of the IBL PAN and coordinator of OPERAS-PL – the Polish national Node of OPERAS research infrastructure for humanities and social sciences. Speech title: In search for a new model for Open Access monographs’ publishing
Marta Świetlik Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences	User experience researcher, curator and critic of contemporary art. Graduate of art history at the Jagiellonian University, she is a doctoral student specializing in digital humanities at Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is employed as a researcher and usability designer at the Digital Humanities Centre, and she’s involved in issues of scholarly communication and innovative forms of publication within OPERAS-PL. Speech title: Open scholarly communication compared to publishing models and practices in Poland
Małgorzata Adamczak Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań	Graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. For many years she has been associated with the publishing industry, in the years 2011-2021 she was a promotion specialist at the Adam Mickiewicz University Press, currently she is an editor on the PRESSto Platform at the Research Information and Knowledge Transfer Department at the University Library in Poznan. She has written and co-authored several scientific and popular science publications, she is the secretary of the "European Journal of Biological Research", she was a member of Academic Publishers Assocciation, and she has collaborated with many institutions of science and culture. Speech title: Quality-focused activities and tasks in the strategy for the development of AMU journals published on the PRESSto Platform
Blanka Mrowicka Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań	She graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and she is a doctor of biological sciences. She works at the Research Information and Knowledge Transfer Department at the University Library in Poznan. Since 2017 she has been working on scientific communication systems – Knowledge Base System (Omega-Psir system) and the PRESSto electronic journal publishing platform (OJS system) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Speech title: Quality-focused activities and tasks in the strategy for the development of AMU journals published on the PRESSto Platform
Agnieszka Wiktor-Sass Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań	Graduate of cultural studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Since 2022 she has been working at the Research Information and Knowledge Transfer Department at the University Library in Poznan. She is the editor of PRESSto – the Platform of Open Scientific Journals at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In addition to operating the OJS system, she works with journal editors and promotes the results of scientific research through the AlphaGalilieo platform. She is responsible for contacts with Crossref. She also has many years of experience in website development. Speech title: Quality-focused activities and tasks in the strategy for the development of AMU journals published on the PRESSto Platform
Aleksandra Szulc Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań	She works at the Research Information and Knowledge Transfer Department at the University Library in Poznan. She coordinates the activities of the Open Science Journals Platform of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She cooperates with the editorial boards of university journals, and provides training in managing the publication process conducted on the basis of Open Journal Systems software and in applying to reference databases. Speech title: Quality-focused activities and tasks in the strategy for the development of AMU journals published on the PRESSto Platform
Dorota Wierzbicka-Próchniak University of Opole	Custodian. Graduated in scientific information and library science from Jagiellonian University and in pedagogical studies from Jagiellonian University. She currently works as deputy director at The Main Library of the University of Opole. Her professional and scientific interests are: electronic information sources, users of digital information, Open Access, repositories. Speech title: Library – publisher or coordinator? Summary of five years activity of the University of Opole Journals Platform
Danuta Szewczyk-Kłos University of Opole	Director of The Main Library of the University of Opole. Chair of the Executive Council of the Conference of Directors of Polish Academic Schools Libraries. Her professional interests include the management of knowledge and scientific information, the organization of access to electronic collections and the education of scientific information users in academic libraries. Her professional interests include the management of knowledge and scientific information, the organization of access to electronic collections and the education of scientific information users in academic libraries. Speech title: Library – publisher or coordinator? Summary of five years activity of the University of Opole Journals Platform

Moderators

Grzegorz Wiącek The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin	Psychologist, manager. For more than a dozen years a research and teaching employee of the Institute of Psychology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In the last five years, head of the Department of Repository and Positioning of Publications at the Catholic University of Lublin and co-founder of the unit's team. As part of the Department of Repository he develops mechanisms for the systemic handling of the dissemination of science in the university, from the institutional repository to the overall coordination of scientific journals and the handling of translation and publication of scientific monographs. Moderator of session one: "Publishing platforms – advantages and disadvantages of using".
Renata Malesa Maria Curie-Skłodowska University	Graduate of library and information science at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, PhD in sociology, assistant professor in the Department of Bibliology Informatology and Media Education at the Institute of Social Communication and Media Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Member of SBP, PTKS and PTEM. Author of many publications in the field of librarianship. Research interests: library marketing, digitization and digitization of cultural assets, electronic sources of information, changes in the information profession. Moderator of session two: "Good practices in publishing"
Anna Wypychowska University of Life Sciences in Lublin	Anna Wypychowska began her work in the publishing sector in 1992 in the editorial department of Lublin's Gazeta Wyborcza. Since 2006, she has been professionally connected with the Publishing House of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, where she was an editor for many years and currently serves as a manager. Moderator of the session three: „Cooperation between the editorial office of a journal and a publishing house”
Katarzyna Panasiewicz Lublin University of Technology	Katarzyna Panasiewicz is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and postgraduate studies in scientific information at the University of Warsaw. Since 2014, she has been employed at the Bibliometric Analyses Centre in the Centre of Scientific and Technical Information of Lublin University of Technology. Her professional interests include copyright law, issues related with open access towards scientific content, open publishing programs, and building the image of the scientist and promoting his or her achievements. Moderator of session four: „Models of publishing”