Springer Nature
Springer Nature
Frankfurt Book Fair 2020

Recorded LIVE EVENTS

Trends in publishing

Where are we on the path to an open future?

About the event

In this session, Jessica Monaghan, Head of Policy Performance, Open Access at Springer Nature looked at Springer Nature’s pioneering role in the move towards a fully open research environment. It addressed what progress has been made with transformative agreements, and the impact of transformative journals. In particular, the session explored the impact and take up of such agreements, and discussed what this looks like in practical terms for stakeholders by having walked attendees through live examples of workflow changes already underway. The main challenges faced by stakeholders in the current climate was also discussed.

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Publishing Perspectives Talks: Academic Publishing Leaders (External Event) 

About the event

In this external event, Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing and Solutions Officer at Springer Nature joined other top executives from the world's leading academic and scholarly publishing companies to exchange experiences and insights dealing with the most important issues facing their businesses today, including open access, transformative agreements, sustainability, and more.

  • Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives
  • Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing and Solutions Officer, Springer Nature
  • Michiel Kolman, Senior VP of Information Industry Relations, Elsevier
  • Judy Verses, Executive Vice President of Research, Wiley

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This event was organized by Frankfurt Book Fair

Research perspectives

Impact of Covid-19 on the Research Enterprise

About the event

In this event, Roger Schonfeld from Ithaka S+R and Rob Johnson from Research Consulting provided highlights of their respective recent research and into the impact COVID-19 is having on the research enterprise and how funders and Higher Education Institutes are responding. The session explored how research funding, research production, researcher careers and the broader research infrastructure is likely to be affected during and after the pandemic and considered whether the situation in the US differs from that in the UK and Europe.

  • Rob Johnson, Founder and Director, Research Consulting
  • Roger Schonfeld, Director, Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums, Ithaka S+R
  • moderated by Susie Winter, Director of Communications and Engagement, Research, Springer Nature

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Covid-19 und die Auswirkungen auf das Verlagsangebot für Ärzte/innen (German language only) 

About the video

Durch die Covid-19-Pandemie haben sich in den letzten Monaten viele Parameter in unserem Alltag verschoben. So kann man feststellen: Deutschland digitalisiert sich. Seit Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie nutzen immer mehr Konsumenten digitale Dienste, Kanäle und Medien. Um in dieser akuten Situation fachlich gesichertes Wissen zu vermitteln, hat der Springer Medizin Verlag neue digitale Formate für Ärzte und Ärztinnen entwickelt, die diesem Bedarf nachkommen.

  • Dr. Cécile Mack, Springer Nature
  • Dr. med. Erik Heintz, Springer Nature
  • Denis Nößler, Springer Nature

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OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit

About the event

This live Q&A session discussed the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit, a new, free resource. The toolkit aims to help authors better understand open access (OA) for books, to increase trust in OA book publishing, to provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance in the process of publishing an OA book. The toolkit was developed in a series of workshops for authors, hosted by the universities of Oxford, Glasgow and Utrecht, in collaboration with Springer Nature and OAPEN. The Q&A session starts with a short presentation about the toolkit and a brief demo, before it opened up to a live discussion where panellists took questions from attendees.

  • Lucy Barnes, Editor, Open Book Publishers
  • Eelco Ferwerda, Director, OAPEN
  • Ros Pyne, Director, Open Access Books and Book Policies, Springer Nature
  • Graham Stone, Senior Programme Manager – open access monographs, Jisc 

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16/10 - Libraries & Campus

Libraries Today: Services, Safety and Novelty

About the event

The reality of the worldwide virus threat has challenged academic libraries to respond with service delivery that encompasses attention to safety protocols and novel delivery methods. This session represented a view of academic libraries worldwide and the services they are rendering to faculty and students under a variety of conditions, including in person, remote, and hybrid learning environments. While the pandemic situation is temporary, the lessons learned from it and skills attained because of it, will likely have a lasting legacy for academic librarians. Two of our experienced members of the scholarly community reviewed what has happened to academic libraries and how they have acted to stay relevant and central to their academic missions.

  • Robert W. Boissy, Director of Account Development, Springer Nature
  • Holger Barth, Senior Account Development Manager, Springer Nature

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17/10 - Spotlight on our authors

Fragerunde mit den Autorinnen und Autoren aus der Video-Galerie (German language only)

Über das Event

Die Buchautoren aus der Video-Galerie unseres deutschsprachigen Buchprogramms waren hier live in einer virtuellen Fragerunde mit dem Publikum vernetzt.

Mit dabei waren die Autoren folgender Bücher: Profile des Bösen | Finanzen – Freiheit – Vorsorge | Die digitale Verführung | Bewegende Zeiten |  Ich bin nicht dick, ich habe nur schwere Gene | Corona-Netzwerke – Gesellschaft im Zeichen des Virus | Nachhaltigkeit – einfach praktisch! | Universum ohne Dinge | Nicht nur eine Frage des guten Geschmacks!

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Can interdisciplinary thinking save our planet?

About the event

Four Palgrave Macmillan authors discuss climate change and environmental impact from an interdisciplinary perspective encompassing policy, business, psychology, energy and beyond. The panellists explore the broader social aspects of sustainability and the environment and how these are related to some of the world’s most pressing issues. This panel, and the following Q&A session, is moderated by Josephine Lethbridge, Interdisciplinary Editor at The Conversation. 

Authors at the event were Mark Everard, author of Rebuilding the Earth; Audley Genus, author in Advancing Energy Policy; Caroline Hickman, author in Climate Psycology, Wesley Spindler, co-author of The Cirular Economy Handbook.

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