AGENDA
16th Berlin Open Access Conference
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
OA2020 welcome and introductions
Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Initiative, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
Max Planck Society welcome
Martin Stratmann, President of the Max Planck Society, Germany [address]
Conference co-Chair opening remarks
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany [address]
SESSIONS 1, 2
Transformative agreements: progress and innovations, assessments and next steps
Reports from the OA2020 Working Group on Transformative Agreement Assessment (WG Chair, Ádám Dér)
Speakers
Ádám Dér, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany [slides]
Susanne Aerni, Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, Switzerland [slides]
Rita Pinhasi, Vienna University Library, Austria [slides]
Mathew Willmott, California Digital Library, USA [slides]
Moderator
Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Initiative, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
Joint statement of the Federal Government and Federal States of Germany – Guidelines on Open Access
Sabine Döring, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF)
Andreas Handschuh, State Secretary, Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism, Germany
SESSION 3
Reflections on the state of the art in the open access transition in scholarly journal publishing
Reflecting on the trends highlighted in the two morning sessions, a panel of diverse actors in research and scholarly communication, from a broad range of geographical contexts, offered their perspectives on the progress made thus far and their expectations for further advancement toward a scholarly publishing paradigm that is fully open, sustainable, inclusive and globally equitable.
Panelists
Bob Gerrity, Monash University, Australia
Amane Koizumi, National Institutes Of Natural Sciences, Japan [slides]
César Rendón, Consortia, Colombia
Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Stockholm University, Sweden
Ellen Tise, SANLiC/Stellenbosch University, South Africa [address]
Günter Waibel, California Digital Library, UC Office of the President, USA
Moderator
Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Initiative, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
SESSION 4
Publisher panel: opportunities, challenges and approaches to enabling a scholarly publishing paradigm that is open, sustainable, inclusive and globally equitable
A representative selection of leaders in scholarly publishing were invited to summarize their perspectives on the state of the art in the open access transformation in scholarly publishing, and, looking forward to the medium-term, their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges of delivering optimal scholarly publishing services to researchers, in support of a scholarly communication paradigm that is open, transparent, sustainable, inclusive and globally equitable.
Panelists
Kumsal Bayazit, Chief Executive Officer, Elsevier
Rachel Burley, Chief Publications Officer, American Physical Society
Frederick Fenter, Chief Executive Editor, Frontiers
Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wiley
Mandy Hill, Managing Director, Cambridge University Press
Niamh O’Connor, Chief Publishing Officer, Public Library of Science
Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Executive Officer, Springer Nature
Moderators
Anna Lundén, National Library of Sweden – Bibsam Consortium, Sweden
Jeff MacKie-Mason, University of California Berkeley, USA
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
WRAP-UP OF DAY 1
Reflections from Conference co-Chairs
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Conference dinner
DAY 2 INTRODUCTIONS AND OBJECTIVES
Remarks from Conference co-Chairs
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
SESSION 5
Actions to reduce inequities in scholarly journal publishing
The OA2020 Initiative and other partners have been facilitating conversations in different regions to understand the financial barriers that researchers encounter in resource-limited contexts and to develop actionable plans and practical mechanisms to reduce inequities in both fee-based and non-fee based open access publishing. Panelists from diverse regions and stakeholder groups reflected on these insights and shared their own experiences and expectations of the international research community, as a collective, to collaborate on actions to foster greater equity and inclusion in the open access scholarly publishing system.
Panelists
Herman Erčulj, Consortium of Slovene Electronic Collections (COSEC), Slovenia
Remya Haridasan, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Faranah Osman, National Science Foundation, South Africa
Andréa Vieira, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes Foundation), Brazil
[session materials forthcoming]
Moderator
Bregt Saenen, Science Europe
SESSION 6
Together for transformation: strategy session
Representatives from the OA2020 Summit of Chief Negotiators shared key insights and offered recommendations for calibrating the objectives around open access negotiations for more impactful and incisive agreements that promote the principles of quality assurance, equity, transparency, and beyond. Together, the cohort of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference deliberated on and further developed the recommendations, to guide the community’s next steps in shaping the increasingly open paradigm in scholarly communication.
Moderator
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Poster viewing session
SESSION 7
Shifting investments from closed to open on the way to supporting a diverse, open ecosystem
In addition to driving a flip of subscription-based publishing to open access models, research communities are using the framework of transformative agreements to re-orient their subscription investments, organizational structures and processes around openness in scholarly communication. In this way, the academic and research community is better positioned to incorporate further innovations, contributing to an open and diverse ecosystem that supports researchers of all disciplines and contexts.
In this final session of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference, representatives from the research and open access landscape shared their thoughts on the different elements that should be included in such an ecosystem and on the practical steps that can be taken to integrate them into our evolving strategies.
Panelists
Michele Avissar-Whiting, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), USA [slides]
Vinciane Gaillard, European University Association (EUA) [slides]
Claire Redhead, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) [slides]
Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), USA [slides]
Moderator
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
WRAP-UP AND CLOSING REMARKS
Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Conclusion