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The 15th Berlin Open Access Conference: Adapt and Advance

The B15 Journey: Insights from throughout the conference

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Track A participant information packet [PDF](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dQtZHSkIzuXHT-TFNRaY_UTi5FTk_Kcb/view?usp=sharing)

Track B participant information packet [PDF](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HtBtLsmb4ST392VF7K22St5ZJqaSsSZ9/view?usp=sharing)


Dear B15 cohort members,

On behalf of the University of California and OA2020 Initiative, we are pleased to share with you the attendee information packet for the 15th Berlin Open Access Conference (B15): Adapt and Advance.

Since 2003, the Berlin Open Access Conference has explored the potentials of our digital environment to transform scholarly communication and “build a future-proof, flexible, open, and high-quality scholarly and scientific publishing system.” Over the years, the persistence of subscription paywalls prompted the creation of a global alliance dedicated to accelerating the transition to open access; the focus of the Berlin Open Access Conference series now centers on viable strategies to replace the existing subscription business model with transparent and sustainable open access models.

The international cohort of the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference (2018) affirmed the importance of transformative agreements in accelerating the open access transition and today we can observe the progress made with transformative agreements in just a few short years. As we progress in our strategies, each step elevates us to a new vantage point revealing a new set of challenges. At this juncture, in 2021, we are therefore convening various stakeholders and decision-makers—including higher education and research administrators; library leaders; academic communities and faculty governance; research funders; and ministries of research, education and innovation—involved in further adapting, improving and advancing transformative open access agreements for the betterment of the research enterprise. As detailed in the agenda that follows, the B15 plenaries will consider transformative open access agreements in the context of heightened budget pressures, equity and scholarly communications, and the growing variety of transformative models being implemented worldwide.

As a B15 attendee, we ask that you use this conference as a springboard for further action, partnership and change.
We look forward to seeing you at B15.

Many thanks,

Gerard Meijer, Director and Scientific Member, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society, Berlin (B15 Track B Conference Chair)
 Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director, California Digital Library, University of California (B15 Track A Conference Chair)

### **Schedule at a glance:**

To facilitate global participation, the B15 conference will be offered twice (to confirm your track, please refer to your invitation from the B15 coordinators or the participant information packet that was distributed via email in advance of the conference).

The conference program will comprise four plenary sessions and include opportunities for discussion (breakout sessions) to reflect together on the insights presented in plenaries 1-3.

Day 01
 -Welcome & opening remarks
 -Plenary 1 - Open access and cost reduction: Competing priorities?
 -Panel
 			-Breakout discussions
 -Plenary 2 - Equal opportunity to publish open access
 -Panel 
 -Breakout discussions
 -Closing Remarks
 -Social event
 
 Day 02
 -Opening remarks
 -Plenary 3 - The range of open access transition models
 -Panel 
 -Breakout discussions
 -Poster session
 -Plenary Panel 4 - The B15 Journey
 -Closing remarks
 
To view the full schedule, please click [here](https://underline.io/events/186/schedule?day=2021-09-28T04%3A00%3A00.000Z) (be sure to sort by your track).

### **B15 message board: Please share your insights, feedback and questions**
In advance of and during B15, we invite you to share your insights, feedback and questions around transformative open access on the B15 message board. Please access the message board [here](https://underline.io/events/186/posters/7945/poster/35472-message-board).

### **Technical issues or questions?**
If you have any questions (before or during B15) about the underline event platform, Zoom or Gather Town, please don’t hesitate to contact the underline help desk [here](https://underline.io/events/186/help-desk).

This event requires a registration to attend, please register for the event [here](https://oa2020.org/b15-conference/). 

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Welcome letter:

Dear B15 cohort members,
On behalf of the University of California and OA2020 Initiative, we are pleased to welcome you to the 15th Berlin Open Access Conference (B15): Adapt and Advance.

There have been open research initiatives in Australia since the very beginning of global discussions on open access to research publications in the early 2000s. The initiatives in Australia have come from a range of actors, including the federal government, funders, institutions, and peak and advocacy bodies. This arrow illustrates some of the key initiatives over the past 20 years. In 2020, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG, now Open Access Australasia) facilitated a national discussion on open research. In 2021, there is increased momentum towards open access to research publications driven by work from the Office of the Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley.

Connecting the dots: 20+ years of open in Australia

An Australian Model for Open Access

Making the research and scholarship of The Ohio State University’s faculty, staff, and students openly available allows us to live our land grant mission – sharing knowledge and culture with the people of Ohio, the nation, and the world.

The current scholarly publishing model creates barriers for researchers and has become unsustainable. In alignment with the university’s promise of operational excellence and resource stewardship, University Libraries is exploring partnerships to transform that model while also ensuring researchers have access to the tools crucial for their work.

Under our Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy initiative, we have created a plan and set of priorities to inform and motivate decision-making around directing funds away from paywall subscription models and toward Open Access publishing. These principles and roadmaps inform our collection strategy, while we also work to apply our equity values of advancing diversity, inclusivity, access, and social justice to scholarly collection building.

Our broader goals include educating, informing, and building partnerships with stakeholders across campus to support actions that transform publishing economics, expanding avenues of Open Access to advance Ohio State research, and developing analytics capabilities to inform negotiations and monitor the impacts of new agreements as part of a new assessment framework for collections strategy and scholarly sharing.

Our strategic investments in Open Access follow multiple pathways and leverage collective action with our consortial partners including the Big Ten Academic Alliance and OhioLINK. University Libraries provides financial support of open-source repository and publishing infrastructure, including DSpace, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Fedora, Dryad, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Oapen, arXiv, and the Open Library of Humanities. Our diamond Open Access publishing program is in its 15th year and our institutional repository program is in its 20th year. To advance the opening of scholarly monographs, we are a funding institution participant in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and support the University of Michigan Press’ Fund to Mission and MIT Press’ Direct to Open.

Our current transformative and transitional agreements include our three-year Taylor & Francis Read and Publish Agreement, our Royal Society Read & Publish 2021 Agreement, and our participation in the three-year PLOS Community Action Publishing Program with the Big Ten Academic Alliance. University Libraries is currently working on several potential new transformative agreements as an institution and as a consortial partner.

Please find supporting documents [on this link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IzDYxil6TZK07Vr9VQpJgPf3eekTq8wo/view?usp=sharing).

Advancing Open Access Along Multiple Pathways at The Ohio State University

Please find the full abstract, with links, [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1py06fZ1QldM8tLylz28QX0cQVoIg5N1Y/view?usp=sharing).


In this poster I tell about the transformative actions to support and promote Open Science at the
University of Genoa (UniGe).

Starting from concrete support for Open Access (green OA, Phd theses OA publication, transformative agreements), UniGe, a signatory of the 2005 Messinian Declaration, is active in transforming the entire research process in an open perspective (open data repository, open educational resources).

UniGe Open Science Group activity highlights that researchers have yet poor awareness of the scientific communication workflow: there is a real need for Open Access, copyright topics, publication models, research assessment, data and metadata management literacy from all over the academic world. So, since 2019, the openscience.unige.it portal has gone live and the UniGe Open Science Group annually organized GenOA week to advocate the Open Science themes.

The openscience.unige.it portal realizes a virtuous model of collaboration between several professional teams (such as librarians and research support staff), where different skills are continually put together to build new knowledge for the whole community.

GenOA week is an annually event to support the Open Science challenges to make access to Open Knowledge fair for all and it's part of the International Open Access week. Born from an idea of UniGe Library System, GenOA week became the UniGe Open Science group core activity.

As the Open Access Week Advisory Committee reminds us, "diversity, equity, and inclusion must be integrated into the fabric of the open community to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can advance progress to build more equitable foundations for opening knowledge". For this reasons, the Unige Open Science Group connects
different roles of Genoa University community: for us, the synergy of different skills is an essential added value because only people create new (open) connections.



Open connections: transformative actions forward Open Science at Genoa University

Please find supporting documents [on this link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yYOnrtNkXhEw-uU359RxSzlR28FTZlYL/view?usp=sharing).

Don’t Forget the Books! “Fund to Mission” at University of Michigan

Over the last three years, the University of Minnesota Libraries have undertaken efforts to formalize processes for values-based collections decisions and investments in open access (OA). To underpin this work, we drafted two statements of values and guiding principles. At this time, the Libraries as a whole was developing a new strategic plan for the 2021-2025. We established a collections-related goal based on our clearly defined values and principles. Here, we present these values and principles, the goal, and our strategies and tactics to advance and achieve our goals.

Values-based framework for strategic and sustainable collecting and investing

UNSW Library is actively seeking inroads to convert Read Only (paywalled subscriptions) agreements to transformative agreements, thereby further aligning the UNSW Sydney Open Access policy and Plan S, while increasing the reach and impact of research. UNSW Library implemented its first pilot transformative agreement in 2020.

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