SJSU Open Access Conference

SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Library, San José State University
October 21, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
This will be a virtual conference and registration will be free.
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The SJSU King Library OA25 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year's biennial Open Access Conference: Defend Research, Defend Open Access.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers;
• Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research;
• Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content;
• Preservation of open content;
• Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices;
• Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment;
• Case studies of Open Access initiatives;
• Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and
• Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments.

If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University Library at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.