"Open Call for Participation
September 28 – October 01, 2021
The 15th Berlin Open Access Conference (B15): Adapt and Advance, will be co-hosted by the University of California (UC) and Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020), and held virtually from September 28 to October 01, 2021. To facilitate global participation, the event will be offered twice: track 1 for the Americas, Australia and Oceania; and track 2 for Europe, Africa and Asia. To ensure B15 offers attendees ample opportunity to discuss, share and collaborate, participation will be limited to 200 people per track.
Similar to prior Berlin Conferences, B15 will assemble members of the global research community interested in furthering transformative open access frameworks, where publisher subscription agreements are transitioned into open access publishing models. B15 workshops and sessions will support both those who have already begun signing transformative agreements and those looking to build capacity in planning for negotiations. The conference will address key topics, including:
- Negotiating open access in the context of heightened budget pressures;
- Challenges surrounding transitioning society journals and high-rejection rate journals;
- Transformative agreements in the context of lower income countries; and
- Potential for greater impact through partnership (e.g. between funders and institutions, high output/low output institutions, etc.)."
Individual application here.
Joint application here.
"Please feel free to forward this open call to your networks and communities"
More info here.
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