Scholarly publishing in transition

To celebrate International Open Access Week, join us for a presentation on the transition of the scholarly publishing market from a subscription-based system to open access.

Colleen Campbell (from the Max Planck Digital Library) will provide a brief history of this transition, a snapshot of where things stand today, and thoughts on where things are headed. She will then invite reflections together with AMICAL members on what all of this means for them.

Who should attend? Librarians, faculty, researchers, PhD students, others interested in scholarly communication.

This event is organized by AMICAL’s Open Scholarship Interest Group, led by Jyldyz Bekbalaeva & Kara Jones.

Speaker bio

Colleen Campbell is strategic advisor for external engagement at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), one of the largest research libraries in Europe, serving researchers at the more than 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society across Germany. There she coordinates the Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020), a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that are repurposing their investments in subscriptions to support open access publishing, and the ESAC Initiative, a library community of practice dedicated to optimizing open access workflows and processes. She serves on the managing board of EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries, as well as on the committees and advisory groups of a variety of international initiatives related to publishing and open access.

(The event will be recorded. If you register for the event, you will be emailed a link to the recording.)

This event will be held on Zoom. Review our online event guidelines to ensure you are set up well.