EVENTS
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OA2020 Meetings and Webinars
Moving OA Forward Focus Sessions
June 2025–
A monthly series designed to foster deeper understanding, critical reflection, and open dialogue around the complexities of a rapidly evolving open access landscape. Through expert-led deep dives into specific issues, challenges, and emerging ideas, the series offers a space for the community to deepen its understanding and strengthen its ability to respond proactively to evolving concerns, helping to inform our collective path forward.
Session 1 Building an open access investment portfolio
Session 2 Negotiating open access from the Global South (Registration open)
OA2020 Monthly Negotiation Updates
January 2024–
Monthly meetings that bring together library professionals from research institutions and consortia globally for discussions among peers on transformative open access strategies. These meetings provide a supportive space to share implementation experiences, address common challenges, and exchange insights on advancing institutional open access goals.
Beware of License to Publish agreements: or ensuring authors retain rights to their openly published work
16 November 2023
The 16th Berlin Open Access Conference brought to light that “License to Publish” agreements often mislead authors into giving away exclusive rights to publishers. Arjan Schalken and Rich Schneider discussed strategies to prevent publishers from exploiting restrictive licenses and ensure authors maintain control over how their work is distributed. Read more
OA2020 Workshops
Global equity in open access publishing: Workshop series
2022–2023
Following successful workshops in South Africa, Brazil and at the Max Planck Digital Library offices in Munich, Germany, we helped coordinate and support workshops and webinars to define transformational strategies and roadmaps in local contexts. Read more
Berlin Open Access Conference Series
Berlin Declaration, 2003, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 2, 2004, Genf, Switzerland
Berlin 3, 2005, Southampton, England
Berlin 4, 2006, Potsdam, Germany
Berlin 6, 2008, Düsseldorf, Germany
Berlin 8, 2010, Beijing, China
Berlin 9, 2011, Washington D.C., United States
Berlin 10, 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Berlin 11, 2013, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 12, 2015, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 13, 2017, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 14, 2018, Berlin, Germany