17th Berlin Open Access Conference: « Moving OA Forward: From Transformation to Collective Responsibility » | 5–6 February 2025, Harnack House, Berlin, Germany
« Scientists and scholars, policy-makers and practitioners, students and citizens everywhere have more free access to the latest results of research than ever before, driven largely by institutions negotiating transformative open publishing agreements (TAs) as part of their broader open access strategies. By placing the rights of authors at the forefront of their contractual relations with academic publishers, the research community has triggered a paradigm shift in science communication and taken a decisive step toward making the scientific process more transparent and inclusive.
This transformative reorientation has enabled the research community to finally uncover the profound financial inequities of the subscription-dominated system in scholarly journal publishing: while nearly 50% of new peer-reviewed articles are now published open access, 80% of publisher revenues, by contrast, still arise from opaque subscription fees. In an era where AI technologies are rapidly reshaping research, it is urgent that institutions leverage open access to protect their work from being further commodified while preserving author rights. (…)
B17 is organized by the OA2020 Initiative on behalf of the Max Planck Society. Outcomes of the conference will be posted on this page for the wider research community. (…) »
source > oa2020.org/b17-conference, 2025
