STEM Faculty

Nancy Pontika

Project Manager, Innovation In Ai

Nancy Pontika holds a PhD in Scholarly Communication from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, MA, USA. Her main areas of interest are Aritificial Intelligence, Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation. She has worked in AI projects, AIDA, AIMWA, Better Words for AI, and in Open Science/RRI projects ON-MERRIT, FIT4RRI, OpenMinTeD, FOSTER, and CORE. She serves as the Editor of the Open Access Directory.

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Ross-Hellauer, T., Klebel, T., Knoth, P. and Pontika, N., 2024, ‘Value dissonance in research(er) assessment: individual and perceived institutional priorities in review, promotion, and tenure’, Science and Public Policy, 51(3), pp. 337–351., https://oro.open.ac.uk/94443/.
Knoth, P., Herrmannova, D., Cancellieri, M., Anastasiou, L., Pontika, N., Pearce, S., Gyawali, B. and Pride, D., 2023, ‘CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers’, Scientific Data, 10(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/89835/.
Pontika, N., Klebel, T., Correia, A., Metzler, H., Knoth, P. and Ross-Hellauer, T., 2022, ‘Indicators of research quality, quantity, openness and responsibility in institutional review, promotion and tenure policies across seven countries’, Quantitative Science Studies, 3(4), pp. 888–911., https://oro.open.ac.uk/86080/.
Ross-Hellauer, T., Reichmann, S., Cole, N. L., Fessl, A., Klebel, T. and Pontika, N., 2022, ‘Dynamics of cumulative advantage and threats to equity in open science: a scoping review’, Royal Society Open Science, 9(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/81624/.
Gyawali, B., Pontika, N. and Knoth, P., 2020, ‘Open Access 2007 - 2017: Country and University Level Perspective’, in Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 1-5 Aug 2020, Virtual Event, China., https://oro.open.ac.uk/70549/.
Brinken, H., Kuchma, I., Kalaitzi, V., Davidson, J., Pontika, N., Cancellieri, M., Correia, A., Carvalho, J., Melero, R., Kastelic, D., Borba, F., Lenaki, K., Toelch, U., Zourou, K., Knoth, P., Schmidt, B. and Rodrigues, E., 2019, ‘A Case Report: Building communities with training and resources for Open Science trainers’, LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), pp. 1–36., https://oro.open.ac.uk/68608/.
Knoth, P., Anastasiou, L., Cancellieri, M., Gyawali, B., Herrmannova, D., Misak, S., Huba, A., Pearce, S., Pontika, N., Rumyanceva, S. and Tarasiuk, M., 2019, ‘Aggregating The World's Open Access Research Papers’, Open Science Fair., https://oro.open.ac.uk/66378/.
Pontika, N., 2019, ‘Roles and jobs in the open research scholarly communications environment: analysing job descriptions to predict future trends’, LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/62567/.
Herrmannova, D., Pontika, N. and Knoth, P., 2019, ‘Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance’, in 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2-6 Jun 2019, Urbana-Champaign, IL., https://oro.open.ac.uk/60478/.
Cancellieri, M., Pontika, N., Pearce, S., Anastasiou, L. and Knoth, P., 2017, ‘Building scalable digital library ingestion pipelines using microservices’, in MSTR 2017: 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2017, Tallinn, Estonia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/51070/.

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