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cOAlition S appoints Advisory Panel to further develop the Journal Comparison Service

15/03/2023

An Advisory Panel – comprising publishers, librarians, library consortia and funders – has been set up to help cOAlition S to further develop the Journal Comparision Service (JCS). 

Specifically, this Panel will review the JCS Frameworks (Information Power and FOAA) and make recommendations on how these might be further developed to ensure that the price and service data is as useful as possible for those who procure publishing services whilst remaining deliverable by the publishers who are asked to provide these data. 

In addition, this Panel will advise cOAlition S on any additional modifications to the JCS service, which would make it more useful to all stakeholders and actively promote its use amongst the relevant stakeholder groups. 

All active users of the JCS were invited to apply to join the Panel. From the applications received, the cOAlition S office appointed those representing different stakeholders in the scholarly communication ecosystem. The Panel will meet for the first time in May 2023.  

The list of appointed members is detailed below. 

Name	Organisation	Member type
Lindsay Barnett	Yale University	End User [Librarian]
Sara Bosshart	Royal Society of Chemistry	Publisher [Learned society publisher – self publisher]
Nicola Cavalli	Ledizioni – LediPublishing	Publisher [Commercial, mixed model]
John Edwards	PLOS	Publisher [Fully OA – not for profit]
Thierry Fournier	Université de Rennes	End User [Librarian]
Jack Hyland	IReL	End User [Library consortia]
Maria Kolesnikova	Pensoft	Publisher [Commercial, fully OA]
Melanie Lehnert-Bechl	Wiley	Publisher [Commercial, mixed model]
Niamh Malin	Cambridge  University	End User [Library consortia]
Katharina Rieck	Austrian Science Fund	End User [Funder]
Arthur Smith	Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)	End User [Library consortia]
Adrian Stanley	JMIR Publications	Publisher [Commercial, fully OA]