“Publishers and Publishing Stances”: workshop report | OPERAS

This is a report from the workshop, “Publishers and Publishing Stances: A Contribution to Multilingualism and Bibliodiversity“, that took place on the 22nd of April and was organized by the OPERAS Special Interest Groups in Multilingualism and Advocacy, in partnership with the projects OPERAS-P and TRIPLE and with the Portuguese Association of University Presses (APEES).  The workshop was divided into two panels. The first one addressed the results, findings and recommendations from the first multi-institutional study on the Open Access Diamond Journals, with a special focus on the Latin-American context. The first panel was moderated by Delfim Leão, Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science at the University of Coimbra. The speakers included Pierre Mounier, community coordinator of OPERAS and deputy director of OpenEdition; and Arianna Becerril-García, founder member of Redalyc (Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal) and professor at UAEM (México). The second panel was specially dedicated to discuss the different perspectives of University Presses publishers and associations in the Ibero-American space. The panel was moderated by Margo Bargheer, from the Association of European Academic Presses – AEUP and Universität Göttingen). The speakers represented different areas from the Iberoamerican landscape of academic publishers: from Portugal, João Caetano (APEES – Associação Portuguesa de Editoras do Ensino Superior and Universidade Aberta); from Spain, Ana Isabel González (Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas – UNE and Universidad de Oviedo); from Brazil, Jézio Hernani Gutierre (Associação Brasileira de Editoras Universitárias – ABEU and Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – Unesp); and representing the region of Latin America and Caribbean, Sayri Karp Mitastein (Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de América Latina y el Caribe – EULAC and Universidad de Guadalajara).