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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 &amp; Francis Read and Publish Agreement, our Royal Society Read &amp; 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).

The 15th Berlin Open Access Conference: Adapt and Advance

Advancing Open Access Along Multiple Pathways at The Ohio State University

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/). 

Registration Required

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.

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).

poster

Transformative Agreements: The Italian Way

Finland Transitioning to Open Access

Austria has been at the forefront of the open access (OA) movement in Europe thanks to a national, co-ordinated approach to OA, namely the collaboration between the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Transition to Open Access project (AT2OA).

Please find supporting documents [on this link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HMcJJiomx1uJkbUpowLDvUzGzril-hHb/view?usp=sharing).

Agents of Change in Austria: the Funder, the Consortium and the Project. A Successful National Collaboration

Negotiations for TAs by JUSTICE

The Kaust University Library signed a number of transformative agreements with STEM publishers from 2019 to 2021.

This poster presents our initial strategy, results, challenges, and plans in the open access publishing area.

About KAUST
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) advances science and technology through distinctive collaborative research integrated with graduate education. Located on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia, KAUST conducts curiosity-driven and goal-oriented research to address global challenges related to food, water, energy, and the environment (kaust.edu.sa). KAUST is a leading STEM research institution with extensive scholarly publishing output - from 2016 to 2020, KAUST authors published 11.511 articles, 68.5% of them in open access mode (cited from SciVal, reviewed: 8/19/21) .

Please find supporting documents [on this link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rq6XE2IKFotAfrgjVY9I31d-5dsLliHp/view?usp=sharing).

KAUST Library Transformative Agreements: 2019 -2021

Croatian Academic and Research Libraries Consortium: Next step - Openness

Under Chinese Academy of Sciences’s (CAS) and National Science and Technology Library’s (NSTL) leadership, National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) has long been active in promotion of OA policies and practices, and proactively participated in the innovation and revolution of the global scholarly communication system.

Open Access Transformation of NSLC

The Road to Open Through Strategic Procurement

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.

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