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LundOnline is a biennial conference and forum for stakeholders in scholarly communication to discuss current developments and challenges related to academic publishing. The conference is sponsored by publishers and free of charge for participants. LundOnline has been organised since 2005. Since 2024 it has been arranged by the Department of Scholarly Communication at the Lund University Library.
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/about-conference - 2026-08-05
Keynote speaker Abeni Wickham, PhD Founder/CEO SciFree Abeni holds a PhD in Molecular Physics but gave it all up to create SciFree, a software company with a mission to make research open to the public for free. Why? Because fake news is free, and Science should be free too! SciFree is currently serving 35 University Library customers in Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Apart from buildin
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/abeni-wickham - 2026-08-05
Mats Benner holds a PhD in Sociology (Lund University) and is currently professor in science policy studies at Lund University School of Economics and Management, and a visiting professor at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, NIFU, Oslo, and King's College, London. Previously, he has been affiliated with the University of Essex, Linköping University, Uppsala University, and Halmstad Uni
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/mats-benner - 2026-08-05
A panel discussion to end the conference on Thursday 10th of November This panel will address some of the values underpinning the contemporary publishing landscape. Considering the increased focus on open science in research policies as a means to increase transparency, reproducibility and accessibility in science, the panel will discuss how the publishing landscape relates to this broader notion
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/previous-years/values-publishing - 2026-08-05
A panel discussion ending the first conference day on Wednesday November 9th The objective of a full transition to Open Access is shared amongst most European countries and their library communities. But strategies to achieve this transition differ between countries and library consortia. Even as transformative agreements become the new normal, with widespread and increasing adoption of these type
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/previous-years/national-perspectives-open-access-and-transformative-agreements - 2026-08-05
Uta Grothkopf is the Head of the Library and Information Centre at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental research organization in astronomy. She develops and implements the mission of the Library and Information Centre, and ensures efficient access to information resources for ESO’s scientists and engineers. Uta and her team monitor evolving scholarly communication tools
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/uta-grothkopf - 2026-08-05
Keynote speaker Educated in economics, computing and banking. Jan Erik had a 13-year banking career before he started at the University nearly 30 years ago in the central administration, acting head of budget section and also acting finance director for some time. Later computing department, then Faculty of Humanities. Ended up at the library working on OA in 2006, after becoming interested in sch
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/jan-erik-frantsvag - 2026-08-05
All sessions will be held at the Lund city hall - in the centre of Lund Participants are responsible for arranging their own accommodations. There are a number of suitable hotels in Lund city center. The nearest airport is Kastrup/Copenhagen airport. The train from Copenhagen airport to Lund takes about 35 minutes with regular departures. About Lund city hallLund city hall is situated in the main
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/venue - 2026-08-05
Nicholas Loubere is an associate professor in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. He co-edits the fully Open Access Made in China Journal (Australian National University Press) and writes frequently on issues related to open science and academic publishing. His most recent article on this subject is published in the Journal of the Europea
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/values-publishing/nicholas-loubere - 2026-08-05
Timon Oefelein joined Springer Nature’s Berlin offices in 2000 as the publisher’s global manager of copywriting. Since then, several posts followed, including in 2007, Head of Global Product Data. In 2010, he moved into Marketing to develop a unique training and support service for academic libraries in Europe. Project highlights include developing a mobile app for The British Library and launchin
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/values-publishing/timon-oefelein - 2026-08-05
Wednesday 9th of November8.30-9.15 Registration & coffee9.15-9.35 Opening of the conference - Håkan Carlsson, Library director of Lund University Library9.40-10.30 100% Open Access: Why are we here, and how can we navigate the future? - Keynote speaker Abeni Wickham 10.30-11.00 Coffee break11.00-11.20 The values of publishing: from openness to discovery - Timon Oefelein, Springer Nature11.20-11.40
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme2022 - 2026-08-05
Joanna joined DOAJ as Managing Director in January 2022, after spending over 25 years in management and leadership roles in both the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library, where she co-led the Royal Danish Library's Open Science strategic initiative, and was chair of Roskilde University's Open Science working group. She was previousl
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/joanna-ball - 2026-08-05
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya's work is devoted to socio-ecological transformation, with academia, and academic publishing in particular, as one important area to transform. She is interested in democratic models of knowledge creation and in making knowledge accessible to all, so that it contributes to social change rather than profit. Since 2012 she has been part of the editorial collective of ephemera
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/values-publishing/ekaterina-chertkovskaya - 2026-08-05
Kira Stine Hansen currently hold different positions that require strong networking and relationship building. She has quite a lot of experience leading organisation though change with a goal-oriented strategy in close alignment with key stakeholders. In accordance, a key component is leadi
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/future-transformative-agreements/kira-stine-hansen - 2026-08-05
Zakayo Kjellström is a doctoral student at the department for Culture and Media studies and Humlab. He has a background in Digital Cultures and Library and information studies, with an interest in illegal downloads of academic litterature. The focus of his thesis is different websites used for downloading academic litterature, and the means to distribute them. The purpose is to map the usage and c
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/values-publishing/zakayo-kjellstrom - 2026-08-05
Karolina Lindh works at the Department of Scholarly Communication at Lund University Library. She will moderate the panel.
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/programme/values-publishing/karolina-lindh-moderator - 2026-08-05
Hanna Voog is your host for LundOnline 2022. She is a librarian at the Department of Scholarly Communication, Lund University Library and assistant System Manager for LUCRIS, the current research information system at Lund University.
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/hanna-voog-conference-host - 2026-08-05
Wilhelm Widmark is the Library Director of Stockholm University since 2012 and Senior Adviser for Open Science to the President. He has a Master of Arts in literature and a Master of Arts in Library and information science from Uppsala University. Wilhelm is active in the Open Science movement in Sweden and Europe. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Swedish Bibsam consortia and a member of the Swedish
2019: What´s on the Horizon? From big deals to offset - transitioning to Open Access 2014: Open Access; ”Whats´s the Big Deal with Open Access” 2012: PDA and textbooks as e-books 2011: Products and platforms 2010: Products and platforms 2009: Products and platforms 2008: Platforms and search interface 2007: E-books 2006: E-books 2005
https://www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/previous-years-0 - 2026-08-05
Håkan Carlsson is Library Director at Lund University. His research interest is focused on the development of research libraries and the interaction with the users. He has previously served as Deputy Library Director and Director of Library Administration at Gothenburg University Library. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and has also held positions as Assistant Professor, Director of Scientific Commu
