Barcamps

The oa.barcamp 2025 took place from 26-27 March 2025 at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the campus in Duisburg and was organised together with the Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw. The participants put together a varied programme and discussed open access topics. A total of eight content-related sessions as well as networking events offered opportunity for professional and organisational exchange.

A follow-up report on the oa.barcamp 2025 will be linked here as soon as it is published.

The oa.barcamp 2024 took place from 14-15 May at the Göttingen State and University Library. It was the best-attended face-to-face barcamp of the open-access.network project to date. OA professionals, publishing staff and people interested in the topic from all over the German-speaking countries discussed, exchanged ideas and made contacts.

The third barcamp of the project open-access.network took place at the Communication, Information and Media Centre (KIM) at the University of Konstanz.

Participants from the entire DACH region attended the event. In various sessions, topics such as Open Access monitoring, the establishment of university presses and Diamond Open Access were on the agenda. There was also room for exchange on the future prospects for Open Access funding and how researchers can be addressed more effectively.

Our second Open Access Barcamp took place online from April 28 to 29, 2022. Each forenoon, the participants themselves put together a varied program and discuss Open Access topics. For example, the implementation of DEAL contracts, the perpetuation of publication funds, Open Access monographs, or Open Access in specific disciplines have been addressed. The barcamp was organized by the Communication, Information, Media Center (KIM) of the University of Konstanz as part of the open-access.network project and participation was free of charge.