Last week I was privileged to attend (and present at) the first #CharlestonAsia Conference in Bangkok, so I thought I would share some of thoughts and experiences from this noisy and fun scholarly publishing gathering. scedmunds.substack.com/p/the-first-...
Stephen Chong giving a presentation about De Gruyter Brill
We were very pleased to be a part of the inaugural #CharlestonAsia Conference in Bangkok last week, and to see our company presentation and panel discussion on "Subscribe to Open: #Libraries Leading the Way" attract so much interest.
Hey, that's me! See you at the Global Summit in India? A quick bounce from the librarians and publishers in Bangkok at #CharlestonAsia onto the policy makers at the 3rd Global Summit on DiamondOA #DOASummit in Bengaluru. Fun times, tiring times, but honoured to be here in the company of good people.
Very thankful to Abrizah Abdullah and Kruti Trivedi for helping me making this session at the #CharlestonAsia conference on #openaccess books in Asia so insightful.
I see much potential for @doabooks.bsky.social supporting South East Asia open access book publishing initiatives.
Group photo: a dozen university press representatives, standing in front of a projection screen with the title "African-Asian University Press Collaborative Workshop"
University press representatives, along with our Executive Director Peter Berkery, gathered for the African-Asian University Press Collaborative Workshop at #CharlestonAsia earlier this week and began exploring ways to network & collaborate to build capacity. #WeAreUP
Paradigm’s VP of Open Access Peter Potter had a great time connecting with our partners, including Edinburgh University Press and Hong Kong University Press, at Charleston Conference Asia this week!
See you at the next conference! ✈️
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Our VP of Open Research, @hahnel.org, presenting on 10 years of #OpenData, following this week's release of "The State of Open Data 2025: A Decade of Progress and Challenges." #StateOfOpenData
Mark was in Bangkok, Thailand at the inaugural #CharlestonAsia conference. @chashub.bsky.social
The Charleston Conference is being held in Asia for the first time this year, in Bangkok, Thailand.
With topics covered including AI, sustainability, and research equity, the conference has its eyes on a better future.
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Interesting use cases from Asia for uses cases of open cross reef metadata. A few companies in Hong Kong (OS2SCI) and Mainland China (Alibaba) using this to train LLMs and produce research integrity tools #CharlestonAsia
Now insight into the local DOI registry ecosystem. Lots of use of Crossref and DataCite, but Asia has the most other local providers in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan #CharlestonAsia
Interesting insight into the Thai metadata space at #CharlestonAsia. Many use journals use DOIs but theses, while using Darwin core are generally not using DOIs yet. Now a push to rectify this
Tall white banner reads, from the top: Association of University Presses, National Academies Press, NUS Press Singapore, Edinburgh University Press, University of Hawaii Press, Hong Kong University Press, and Princeton University Press, with press logos.
Wrapping up #CharlestonAsia today. Thanks Charleston Hub & all attendees who stopped by to learn more about our participating member presses: Edinburgh University Press, University of Hawaii Press, Hong Kong University Press, National Academies Press, Princeton University Press & NUS Press.
Promotional image for Niels Stern's session 'Open Access Books in Asia - What's the status?' at Charleston Conference Asia on 28 January 2027.
Happening in 1 hour: 'Open Access Books in Asia - What's the status?' Head to Riverside VI at the conference venue to hear from @nielsstern.bsky.social, Jagadish & Kruti on this topic #CharlestonAsia #OAbooks @chashub.bsky.social
And super interesting Bin Zhang is talking about academic imbalances and global inequality. Including the control of publishing infrastructure and governance by the global North. #CharlestonAsia
Great to see someone at Renmin University (and therefore very close to central government) promoting the UNESCO #OpenScience Recommendation. This is a good sign they will be utilizing this tool in Chinese science policy going forward #CharlestonAsia
Second day of #CharlestonAsia and Bin Zhang is doing the morning keynote in Chinese on strategies and practices of library alliances in building an equitable knowledge ecosystem. This will be an interesting test of AI translation
Greetings from the amazing Bangkok!
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The brilliant Devika Madalli doing the second keynote at #CharlestonAsia on India’s ONOS (one nation one subscription) and how it is democratizing knowledge access
Jesse presenting a very data driven perspective and how high quality data provision and analysis has really helped a small and new university jump up the international and local rankings #CharlestonAsia
Next case study is from Jesse Xiao giving the EduHK institutional perspective. Great to see Jesse here after we worked together for many years at GigaScience #CharlestonAsia
Interesting @orcid.org infrastructure gap in Asia. Asia has 40% of users, but a disproportionately small number of platforms and integrations #CharlestonAsia
Estelle starting by giving everyone an overview of @orcid.org and how PIDs can work to break down silos #CharlestonAsia
Our panel discussion on breaking down silos at #CharlestonAsia just starting and is expertly chaired by Estelle Cheng from @orcid.org
First parallel tracks at #CharlestonAsia, with several parallel AI related sessions I’m in the innovating library services through GenAI track
Something as important as the IPCC process, contributors from the Global South cannot access all of the literature in making their assessments and are dependent on their collaborators in the Global North to give them papers #CharlestonAsia #OpenAccess #FAIL
Something as important as the IPCC process, contributors from the Global South cannot access all of the literature in making their assessments and are dependent on their collaborators in the Global North to give them papers #CharlestonAsia #OpenAccess #FAIL
Interesting insight from Joyashree working here for 7 years. To get tenure as a Prof in Thailand you need to publish a book in Thai as teaching is in Thai (Thailand was never colonised). Based on this system how can you expect Thai academics to now publish in English? #CharlestonAsia
Digital Science is in Bangkok, Thailand for the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia - find us at Booth 37! 🌏 @chashub.bsky.social #CharlestonAsia
Our VP of Open Research, @hahnel.org, will present on the new #StateOfOpenData report.
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Opening #CharlestonAsia keynote from Joyashree Roy on Asia in the Climate Change Landscape. Appropriate when the UV and PM2.5 is so high in Bangkok this morning
