The submission deadline for this conference has been extended to Monday,
October 4. Apologies for cross-posting.

It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity
<https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-conference/>

Biennial Open Access Conference at San José State University

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Library

October 29, 2021, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

This will be a virtual conference and registration will be free

*Call for Proposals*

Efforts to open access to knowledge, research, and scholarship are often
focused on building new structures: new systems for distributing and
archiving scholarship and data, new reward structures for researchers, new
cultures of research that favor openness. But simply opening access does
not ensure a more equitable knowledge environment. Without intervention,
new and open structures can reproduce existing structural inequalities.

The recently released UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
<https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation>,
which inspired the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week
<http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2021-theme-announcement-english>
and for this conference, proposes a framework for equitable, open
structures for science on the national and international level. Libraries
and library workers often work at a much more local level, but in many ways
we are implicated in the same structural concerns. These concerns manifest
in the systems we build and in the systems, structures, institutions, and
corporations that form the context for our work.

Because “it matters how” we do our work, this conference will focus on ways
that the structures of “open” promote or inhibit a diverse, inclusive, and
equitable scholarly communication environment.

In our upcoming conference, we invite proposals for presentations of 10,
30, or 60 minutes. Topics include but are not limited to:


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   Open access and institutional repositories
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   Institutional policies, mandates, workflows, and cultures related to
   open access
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   Open access and information literacy
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   Open access and faculty labor, including tenure processes and contingent
   employment
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   Disciplinary cultures, structures, and practices surrounding open access
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   Transformative agreements
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   Infrastructure for open access: open source software, proprietary
   platforms, and institutional realities
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   OERs, Open Science, Open Data, Open Humanities, Open Knowledge
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   Promoting open access to faculty, administrators, and legislators
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   Vendor consolidation and open access
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   Scholarly communication futures and the impact of open access
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   Curation and preservation of open access journals, pre-prints, books,
   and data



Conference website: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-conference/

Submit a proposal:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/ir_submit.cgi?context=oa-un-conference


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Nick Szydlowski
Scholarly Communications & Digital Scholarship Librarian
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San José State University
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