The San José State University Library is pleased to announce SJSU’s 2023 Open Access Unconference: Community over Commercialization.

October 25, 10AM - 2PM PDT



This free, virtual event will offer opportunities for discussion and dialog on critical issues in scholarly communications. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Open scholarship of all sorts, including OERs, Open Science, Open Data, Open Humanities, Open Knowledge;
  • Commercialization of OA models;
  • Proprietary versus community-minded infrastructure;
  • Read and Publish or “Transformative” agreements;
  • Garnering support from faculty, administrators, and legislators;
  • Preservation of open content;
  • Ethics of open content, including invisible labor embedded in OA creation, authors rights, content scraping by AI, etc.;
  • Economic issues in the scholarly communication environment, including publisher consolidation, distribution of resources and profits, and economic incentives of relevant actors and stakeholders.

Learn more about this year's unconference theme and International Open Access Week

We welcome participation from all viewpoints and stakeholders in the scholarly communications process, including students and early career professionals.

More details coming soon! If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, SJSU Library at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.

Register via Zoom at https://tiny.sjsu.edu/oa2023

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