SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference
<https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-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.

Submit your proposal <https://forms.gle/pcsdxsc2x1N8Bx7a7> by July 15, 2025
at 5 PM PDT.

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.

Around the world, government funding provides critical resources to support
research and scholarship. Similarly, government open access policies
<https://blog.mdpi.com/2024/12/24/open-access-policies/> like those in the
United States, the European Union, Mexico, and Japan have reshaped
scholarly communication to ensure immediate open access to publicly funded
research.

But what happens when governments turn against research? How can research
and scholarly communication communities respond to censorship of academic
research and to the dismantling of funding agencies and other research
infrastructure? How can institutions and libraries maintain a commitment to
open access in the face of challenging political and budgetary climates?

This conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against
U.S. Government Censorship <https://www.defendresearch.org/home> and to
provide researchers, librarians, publishers, research administrators, and
concerned citizens a chance to share their experiences and strategies in
addressing and countering government censorship in the research process. We
especially invite participants from outside the United States to share
their perspectives and experience in navigating the impacts of political
change on the research process.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

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


We invite proposals for 20 or 40 minute sessions. Submit your proposal via
our Google Form <https://forms.gle/pcsdxsc2x1N8Bx7a7> by July 15, 2025 at 5
PM PDT. If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health
Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University
Library, at [log in to unmask]

Dawn Hackman, MS, AHIP
Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian | King Library |
library.sjsu.edu/
San José State University | sjsu.edu | 408-808-2042
she, her, hers

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3935-7037