5 March 2026, 14.00-15.30 China/Singapore time
(11.30am-1pm India time)
Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill
Publishers and librarians are agreed that to achieve maximum impact, Open Access needs global adoption. However, this does not mean that every country must take the same approach. Individual OA models are likely to work better in some territories than others. This webinar explores what implementing OA means to librarians from two Asian institutions and how it might be developed in the future.
Join Mazmin Mat Akhir (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia) and Chris Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) as they share their unique insights and practical experiences implementing Open Access strategies tailored to their local contexts. Gain actionable takeaways to navigate the evolving OA landscape in your own institution.
The webinar is sponsored by De Gruyter Brill and will be moderated by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf. Registration is free of charge.
For more details and to book your place on the seminar, click here.
Who should attend
Academic librarians; public librarians; publishers; members of librarian support groups; members of consortia and trade associations; academics and students interested in sustainability; environmentalists.
Mazmin Mat Akhir is a graduate of Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi MARA. She has been the Chief Librarian of the Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Library at Universiti Malaysia Perlis since 2014. Mazmin is actively involved in the establishment committee of the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium, dealing with consortium subscriptions to scholarly e-resources for public universities in Malaysia. She was the author of the book Penawaran dan Pengurusan Sumber Maklumat Elektronik, which focuses on strategies and initiatives for managing and providing access to electronic resources for academic libraries, and has also produced nine books and monographic materials for Universiti Malaysia Perlis. She is committed to strengthening the library’s role in promoting the education and well-being of autistic children through the Autism Hub for Educational Resources and Training (A-HEART).
Chris Chan is University Librarian at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU); he leads a team of around 80 staff providing service to a community of over 13,000 students and faculty. He has served HKBU Library for the past 17 years in positions of increasing responsibility and was appointed University Librarian in 2022. Open access has been a long-standing professional priority for Chris, having played a major part in establishing the University’s Open Access Policy in 2016. As of January 2026, HKBU Library has 15 open access agreements with scholarly publishers, through which over 660 HKBU-authored articles have been made open access.
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