Workshops - Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

This is an overview page for the workshops that will be held at the 19th Munin Conference 2024. For information about the time schedule and rooms, see the Programme. The workshops that take place on the same day will run in a parallel session. Here you can see short descriptions of the workshops (links to the full abstracts of the workshops will be added continuously).

You register for a workshop during conference registration; the registration confirmation email will contain an overview of the workshops you have chosen. Some workshops require that participants read something beforehand or bring a laptop – read about the possible preparations in the workshop descriptions.

If you are a workshop organiser, see also section “Workshops” in Presenter information.

26 November

Painting the Mona Lisa? How reusable and open methods and protocols can advance reproducibility

Workshop organizers: Agata Morka (PLOS), Emma Ganley (protocols.io), Leo Lahti (University of Turku), Rebecca Kirk (PLOS)

Would Leonardo da Vinci have shared the precise methods behind his masterpieces? Would he guide us step by step through his process to recreate the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa? While art often celebrates the elusive and irreplicable touch of genius, contemporary science expects and relies on reproducibility to maintain trust and rigor. More than a decade has passed since the reproducibility crisis was first diagnosed, yet progress in addressing this issue has been gradual and unevenly distributed.

This workshop will explore how stakeholders within the research science ecosystem can advance reproducibility by encouraging the uptake of methods and protocols sharing. Drawing on a recent set of recommendations from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, we will spark a meaningful dialogue around translating these recommendations into practice across the scientific community (European Commission et al, 2024). By engaging participants in problem-solving and role-playing exercises, we will consider dilemmas and tradeoffs that may stand in the way of a more responsible, reproducible research culture. his workshop is designed for anyone who is committed to advancing reproducibility in scientific research. We hope that attendees from the stakeholder groups mentioned above will participate.

Full abstract Morka et al.

Supporting publication choices in an open research context

Workshop organizers: Jeroen Bosman & Femke Holwerda (Utrecht University)

Scholars are confronted with myriad options when publishing: taking into account their topic, their publishing goals, intended audience, institutional and funder policies and collaborator preferences. Libraries and their institutions are there to support their authors in this process. In this session we will discuss potential new ways to help researchers, teams and department leadership to make choices and formulate publication strategies. We will do this using two resources created recently at Utrecht University Library (the Open Access Faculty Toolkit (De Boer et al. 2024) and the Publication Strategy Tool (Bosman & Kramer 2022)). The workshop addresses both the range of choices need to make when publishing and how to support this informed publication strategy. We invite participants to bring in their own disciplinary and research policy contexts for discussing the different publishing options.

Participant preparation: we ask the participants to in advance briefly take a look at the two resources mentioned and think about how using these could be beneficial in their function or for their organisation.

Full abstract Bosman & Holweerda.

A practical workshop on Diamond OA publishing: New European DIAMAS tools to support you in your work

Workshop organizer: Vanessa Proudman (SPARC Europe), Pilar Rico Castro (FECYT)

The workshop will showcase a toolsuite for supporting Diamond OA publishing that has been developed by the DIAMAS project https://diamasproject.eu/. In interactive sessions, participants will be walked through how to use two different outputs of the DIAMAS project:

The Diamond OA Standard or DOAS, that enables self-assessment of the quality of Diamond OA publications (the Diamond OA Standard or DOAS),
The Diamond OA Sustainability Check, that enables self-assessment of the financial sustainability of Diamond OA services

Participants will also be able to sign up to join the registry of Diamond OA publishers and services providers and the Diamond OA knowledge-exchange hub. Full info.

What about Open Science?

Previous title in the registration form: The Open Science Wheel of Prosperity.

Workshop organizers: Aisling Coyne (Technological University Dublin), Sarah Coombs (Saxion University of Applied Sciences) & Katrine Sundsbø (DOAJ)

This is a 90-minute interactive workshop session presenting the game we have been developing with our UKSG Innovation Award – “Open Science Wheel of Prosperity”. This is a competitive Open Educational Resource ‘game’ designed to create discussion around common open science concepts and ideas that everyone should understand but do not always fully grasp. This workshop is suitable for all audiences with, or without previous understanding of open science. Through this game participants will be introduced to the key concepts for discussion of open science, what that means for them and their institution, and what concrete steps they can take to make a difference going forward as part of the open science movement. The aim of our workshop is not only to play the game to enhance knowledge but to facilitate playing it in institutions everywhere with implicit advocacy for Open Science built in. Participants do not need to prepare for this workshop in advance. Full info

Just get rid of the journal! Unconference style

Workshop organizers: Susanne van Rijn (Dutch Academic Library Consortium UKB/Erasmus University Rotterdam) & Heleen Palmen (Leiden University)

Aren’t we just better off shaping open scholarly- or university owned platforms as online libraries? And get rid of the print-based workflows used before the coming of the internet age? In this unconference style workshop we’ll discuss how an academic world without journals would look like, what would go forward and are there features of the journal we can’t do without? Then together we’ll design the ideal alternative. We can take a look at publishing formats, peer review, editorial workflow, or what else you would like to see included. What do you think researchers need to publish, disseminate and find the publications they need? Let’s share our expertise, exchange our wildest ideas and discuss future developments! Full info.

27 November

Unlocking the power of Open Education: Exploring stakeholder benefits through interactive card play

Workshop organizer: Paola Corti (SPARC Europe)

The workshop will be based on the ENOEL Toolkit, a resource developed by the network librarians and supported by SPARC Europe. The ENOEL Toolkit aims to help raise awareness of the importance of Open Education by pointing out the benefits of its adoption for students, teachers, institutions, librarians and society at large. One way to discover and interact with the ENOEL Toolkit is by playing with one of its tools, which will be available before the Munin Conference. In this workshop, the facilitator will launch a conversation and community-focused problem-solving session to address the challenges that we face in Open Education. Participants in the workshop will enact a way to find and finesse solutions that players can work towards implementing in real life. The activity participants will experience is designed to be adaptable to local needs. During the workshop, the facilitator will suggest one of the possible ways to use it and share the rules to shape this experience. Full info

Collaborating for reproducibility: How can we work together better?

Workshop organizers: Tony Ross-Hellauer (Know-Center), Rebecca Taylor-Grant, Matthew Cannon & Becky Hill (Taylor & Francis)

This workshop seeks to stimulate open dialogue on cross-stakeholder action, individual roles and responsibilities, and current bottlenecks where further collaboration is needed. Attendees will gain insights into practical steps and collaborative strategies that can be implemented in funding, research and publishing workflows.

We will address the question: how can institutions, publishers, funders, researchers and others collaborate, across disciplines, regions and stakeholder contexts on issues such as lack of transparency in reporting/data/analysis, lack of replication studies, publication bias, and questionable research practices?

Participants will work in four groups, each with a distinct thematic focus:

Infrastructure, tools and practices
Awareness, training, and community-building
Incentives, evaluation and assessment
Policies and mandates

Full info about the workshop

Enhancing Diamond Open Access: How OS-APS Facilitates Media-Neutral Scholarly Publishing

Workshop organizers: Yannik Hampf, João Martins (the University and City Library of Cologne), Carsten Borchert (SciFlow) & Sarah Bösendörfer (University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg)

The Open-Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS) promotes sustainable Diamond OA publications. This open-source application supports a single-source workflow for media-neutral publishing, accommodating formats like PDF, HTML and JATS-XML, and integrates with platforms such as OJS, OMP and DSpace. OS-APS includes Pandoc for DOCX import and uses community-shared open source templates, requiring minimal technical expertise. This enables small and medium-sized publishers to produce scholarly articles and journals efficiently, enhancing the OA Diamond model‘s viability.

In our workshop, we will provide in the first part a comprehensive insight into the practical use of OS-APS, offering an overview of the project and its goals, ensuring participants understand the necessary details and context. The second part will be a practical session, covering the entire application process from Docker installation to article publication in Open Journal Systems (OJS). In this way, participants should be able to set up their own OS-APS instance in order to be able to use the advantages of the software independently.

Participant preparation: The workshop works for both passive-receptive participants and those who want to actively learn
about the use of OS-APS on site and try it out in practice. For the active group of participants, it is necessary to install Docker on their computer beforehand. See installation instructions in the Preparation PDF that has been published along with the full abstract for Hampf et al.

The Diamond Discovery Hub and its suggested Diamond OA criteria for journals

Workshop organizers: Hanna Varachkina, Malte Dreyer, Lisa Müller & Margo Bargheer (University of Göttingen)

The DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects introduced operational criteria to identify Diamond OA journals. They are required to enable binary decisions of journals classifying as Diamond OA or not within the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH), a registry for such journals launching by the end of 2025.

In our 90-minute workshop we will jointly work on developing flexible, transparent parameters of criterium 6, community-ownership. If parameters of judging “community owned” are set too wide, the rigorousness of such a collection is watered down with too many questionable entries. If set too narrow, the DDH would risk excluding scientific journals identifying with the overall goals of Diamond OA but failing to meet minor aspects of “community owned”. To give participants a hands-on experience we’ll introduce the DDH’s current alpha-version system and our planned editorial model. Full info.

Running a Diamond Open Access Journal (and Surviving It): How can we avoid (self-)exploitation and ensure professional publishing without recurring to APCs and similar evils?

Workshop organizers: Holger Pötzsch, Justin Parks & Jan Erik Frantsvåg (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

This workshop offers a venue for discussing key challenges to, and possible supporting frameworks for, the professional running of academic diamond open access journals.

Questions the workshop will address include (but are not limited to) the following: What experiences do participants have with OA academic publishing? Which strategies for ensuring proper peer-reviews, editing, and publishing do exist? Which funding schemes exist that journal editors can apply for to cover running expenses for copy- and layout-editing, journal hosting, technical support, and more? Are there options for increased cooperation between journals to address such challenges?

The workshop starts with 3 lighting talks on experiences with publishing diamond OA journals and on potential support infrastructures, followed by group work around specific themes and a plenary discussion. Full info.

Slay the Code: Prompting and Coding in the Humanities

Workshop organizers: Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Chiara Livio, Stefano Rapisarda, and Val Privalova (Utrecht University)

Would you like to learn how to use AI to explore and analyze your cultural heritage data? Or have you always wanted to learn how to code and perform data-driven analysis with a little help from cutting-edge tools? This workshop focuses on the intersection of generative AI tools and the humanities, offering participants the opportunity to master the art of crafting effective prompts for AI tools like ChatGPT and see practical cases where prompting can be used to work with computational methodologies for example, achieving essential Python coding skills.

Structured into two engaging sessions, the first focuses on the theory and practice of creating impactful AI prompts, while the second showcases practical samples of how to support humanities researchers and library specialists when started working with computational methodologies. Participants will also gain insights into ethical considerations, gender biases and decolonial perspectives and best practices related to the FAIR principles and open access. Full info.

Research Game

Mediators: Sabina Leonelli & Stefano Rimini

Will your scientific research succeed despite the obstacles and injustices of academic life?

This game needs 3–6 players (preferably over 12 years old) plus a narrator/mediator. The purpose of the game is to explore in a fun way the dynamics of academic research, including the asymmetries and injustices that permeate the way knowledge is produced around the world. The duration of the game is 15–45 minutes, depending on the players.

The Research Game was developed in 2023–2024 by PHIL_OS team in collaboration with Leonardo Durinx and with financial support from the European Research Council. More information about the game can be found at https://opensciencestudies.eu/the-research-game/.

28 November

Mechanisms for transdisciplinary co-production

Workshop organizers: Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich) & Stefano Rimini (Pianeta)

In the age of climate emergency, there continues to be a deep disconnection between people’s perception of social concerns (e.g. job and economic security, urban design and uses of technology) and environmental concerns (e.g. weather-related disasters, pollution, loss of green spaces, ecoanxiety). This fuels what many call a ‘democratic deficit’, where representative democracies are struggling to foster and support evidence-based decision-making in the face of extensive misinformation and disinformation campaigns. This is particularly concerning among youth and vulnerable parts of the population, such as immigrant communities and the elderly. This workshop proposes transdisciplinary engagement as a way to engage and inform around those issues, while building and extending Open Science efforts to provide an alternative to bubble chambers created by digital media and some forms of Artificial intelligence. The workshop aims to explore, together with delegates and through break-out groups, experiences of engaging local communities in developing environmental/social interventions together with policy-makers as well as researchers, thinking about challenges and learning from each other’s solutions. Some of the examples will include water research and policy engagement in Italy, youth engagement around environmental themes across European organisations, and the development of the Climate Pact Ambassador network. Full info.

Slay the Code: Prompting and Coding in the Humanities

Workshop organizers: Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Chiara Livio, Stefano Rapisarda, and Val Privalova (Utrecht University)

Introducing the ‘Support Package for Data Management Plans for Norwegian Higher Education libraries’

Workshop organizers: Jenny Ostrop, Ida Benedicte Juhasz, Korbinian Bösl (University of Bergen), Live Kvale (University of Oslo), Leif Longva (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Svein Høier, Lisbeth Jahren & Ingrid Heggland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

This workshop presents the resources produced in the 1-year project Data Management Plans: Support package for Norwegian higher education libraries (October 2023-2024). The presented support package consists of resources for research support staff in the form of a knowledge base, and for researchers in the form of a DMP template and an accompanying supporting information. All generated text resources are sustained through an open contribution and maintenance process and are available under an open license.

The knowledge base for support personnel is based on the DMP guidance by Science Europe. It has been annotated in the Norwegian context and includes mappings with funder templates, machine-actionable DMP (maDMP) coverage, and stakeholder interests. We will further share reflections on project and user needs and dimensions that define the complexity of a DMP. Based on these conceptual insights, we invite colleagues to discuss which project needs, DMP requirements, and stakeholders are central to their organization and users.

For use by researchers, the project furthermore developed short texts for use in digital DMP tools that were implemented as discipline-agnostic knowledge model and connected questionnaires/templates in the DMP-tool Data Stewardship Wizard. There will be an opportunity for practical testing of different variants of the questionnaire in group work. In addition, we will briefly demonstrate how the questionnaire could be adapted to institutional or disciplinary needs.

With this workshop, we wish to motivate colleagues in research support roles to adopt the DMP support package. Importantly, we will also include brief demonstrations of how everyone can participate in keeping the common resources updated and how they can be adapted to individual needs. We invite the Norwegian research data community to contribute to maintenance and further development of these open resources. Full info.

Just get rid of the journal! Unconference style

Workshop organizers: Susanne van Rijn (Dutch Academic Library Consortium UKB/Erasmus University Rotterdam) & Heleen Palmen (Leiden University)

Creating Collaborative Spaces in the Open – Establishing a Nordic Capacity Centre for Diamond Open Access

Title in the registration form: Diamond Nordic Capacity Centre

Workshop organizers: Sofie Wennström (Stockholm University), Per Pippin Aspaas (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Hanne Munch Kristiansen (The Royal Danish Library), Markku Roinila (Helsinki University Library)

Since the start of the DIAMAS project in 2022, there has been a focus on equity in Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing beyond agreements with legacy publishers. In addition, cOAlition S started a working group with funders, librarians, and publishers to discuss possible models that could contribute to a shift to OA beyond article-based charges. Non-profit and community-led journals, which have long awaited these initiatives, need support, such as adapting to policy recommendations while sustainably maintaining the same editorial quality.

A recent landscape study by Mikael Laakso (Study of the Nordic SSH Journal Publishing Landscape: A Report for the Nordic Publications Committee for Humanities and Social Science Periodicals (NOP-HS), 2021) concluded that there are 325 active Nordic journals currently on the market, of which 6.5% operate with an APC. Almost half of the Nordic journals also accept contributions in languages other than English. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden have established national infrastructures for journal publishing alongside several institutional platforms. Norway does not rely on a national node but has created several institutional platforms for societies and editors who need a digital home for their journals. The study about Nordic journals concludes that many of them are supported only by temporary grants or in-kind contributions from institutions, which means that they will likely need more financial support to develop their practices or updates to live up to various OA policies. With the current scene as a backdrop, it is relevant for stakeholders to consider new ways of supporting. Offering fundamental support for a complete shift to OA means that support from various stakeholders is crucial in ensuring that these publishing outlets are following necessary policies and recommendations and remain relevant for researchers to read and publish with them.

This workshop explores the opportunities and challenges of community-driven and scholar-led open publishing to ensure that a Nordic Capacity Centre for Diamond Open Access provides relevant backing for its stakeholders.

What about Open Science?

Previous title in the registration form: The Open Science Wheel of Prosperity.

Workshop organizers: Aisling Coyne (Technological University Dublin), Sarah Coombs (Saxion University of Applied Sciences) & Katrine Sundsbø (DOAJ)