Uhlenbeck Lecture: Towards inclusive and equitable Open Access publishing
Open Access (OA) publishing is often associated with author-facing Article Processing Charges (APCs) and costly Transformative Agreements between commercial publishers and library consortia that allow authors from participating library consortia to both read and publish in the publishers’ journals. This publishing model is exclusive and inequitable: it limits participation in the scholarly debate to authors and institutions that have the means to meet these high costs.
Since the 2021 UNESCO recommendation on Open Science, there has been increasing support for the idea that Open Access should be inclusive and equitable: authors and readers should not be faced with financial barriers to participate in the scholarly debate.
Alternative publishing models such as Diamond Open Access and Subscribe to Open have been developed to meet that challenge. Johan Rooryck will discuss how the Diamond OA ecosystem is currently being organized on the national, regional, and global levels to achieve inclusive and equitable Open Access publishing.
About Johan Rooryck
Johan Rooryck is Executive Director of cOAlition S and a linguistics professor at Leiden University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Fair Open Access journal Glossa: a journal of general linguistics since 2016. From 1999 to 2015, he was the executive editor of Lingua (Elsevier), when its Editorial Team and Board, as well as its reader and author community, decided to leave Lingua to found Glossa. He also is a founding member and president of the Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) and Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA). He is a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Programme of the NFA Day
15.00 – 16.00 General Assembly of the NFA (members only, also online)
- Agenda General Assembly
- Minutes General Assembly 2024
- Minutes Extraordinary General Assembly February 2025
- Financial Report over 2024 (will follow soon)
- Form to assign a proxy to represent you at the General Assembly
16.00 – 16.15 Refreshments (Collaborative Room)
16.15 – 17.15 Uhlenbeck Lecture by Johan Rooryck (also online)
17.15 Drinks and Bites
