Lecture by Johan Rooryck (Leiden University) "Towards equitable and inclusive Open Access in linguistics"

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We are excited to announce the launch of a new event series at ZAS, dedicated to fostering high-quality, non-profit Diamond Open Access publishing in linguistics.

To kick off this initiative, we are honored to welcome Professor Johan Rooryck — Executive Director of cOAlition S, Editor-in-Chief of Glossa, and a leading voice in the field — for a keynote lecture on the future of equitable and inclusive open access publishing.

Abstract:

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. I 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.

More in particular, I will focus on how this is being done in linguistics via Diamond OA journals that are scholar-owned and run, including Glossa and Isogloss among 47 other journals that have come together in the foundation Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) www.lingoa.eu. I will discuss the challenges and opportunities of running Diamond OA linguistics journals in terms of their governance, guidelines, and sustainability.

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