Save the Date! 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. This year's conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship 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.
When? October 21, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
Where? This will be a virtual conference
How much? Registration will be free.
We've decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for contributed content. We invite proposals for 20 or 40 minute presentations. Submit your proposal via our Google Form by August 1 at 5 PM PDT. 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:
Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers;
Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research;
Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content;
Preservation of open content;
Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices;
Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment;
Case studies of Open Access initiatives;
Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and
Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments.
If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University Library, at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.
Thank you,
