A panel of authors share first-hand insights into how publishing their work openly has shaped its reach, visibility and impact.
Whether you’re exploring OA options for the first time or looking to deepen your understanding of its benefits, this session offers practical, experience driven insights into what OA publishing can achieve.
This 75 minute online event brings together a panel of authors to share first-hand insights into how publishing their work openly has shaped its reach, visibility, and impact. Featuring authors from a range of university presses, the event offers an opportunity to hear directly from researchers working across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Each author will give an 8–10 minute presentation covering their publishing journey: how their work was funded, why Open Access (OA) publishing was chosen, and what the outcomes have been in terms of readership and engagement. The session will conclude with a Q&A. To support this discussion, the panel will be chaired by Paula Kennedy, Head of Publishing at the University of London Press, with Philippa Grand, Head of Publishing at LSE Press on the panel, to help address researcher queries about OA models, workflows, and opportunities.
This event is designed for researchers at all career stages, as well as librarians, research support staff, and others in scholarly communications seeking positive, real world case studies of OA in action.
Panellists:
• Dr Sarah Fox, author of Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, published by the University of London Press in 2022, which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize, 2023.
• Professor David Luke, based at LSE, author of open access books How Africa Trades and How Africa Eats. The first book won the Business Council of Africa’s Business Book of the Year 2024.
• Dr Stijn van Ewijk, first author of the textbook An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy, published with UCL Press in 2023. The book has been downloaded 20,000+ times and adopted on courses in at least 12 countries.
• Peter Cunliffe-Jones, a former news reporter and founder of Africa’s first fact-checking organisation, is the author of Fake News - What’s the Harm?, published by University of Westminster Press in 2025.