OAI14

The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025. Attendance will be global, with librarians, IT staff, research officer staff, and academic researchers prominent among them. 1000+ registrants are expected.

A number of institutions and bodies support this event. The Scientific Committee, which is in charge of the academic programme comprises:

  • Paul Ayris (chair) – UCL (University College London)
  • Abednego Corletey – IT consultant, Ghana
  • Elena Giglia – University of Turin
  • Tiberius Ignat – SKS Knowledge Services
  • Danny Kingsley – Deakin University
  • Jenny Lam – Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Frank Manista – Jisc
  • Nokathula Mchunu – National Research Foundation of South Africa
  • Martyn Rittman – Crossref
  • Wouter Schallier – United Nations
  • Marco Tullney – Technische Informationsbibliothek
  • Jens Vigen – CERN
  • Kirsty Wallis – UCL (University College London)

Workshop sessions

The formats of each day for our events depend on the group. Sometimes it is a live panel, other times we work with pre-recorded presentations where the presenters watch live and can answer questions online before participating in an online discussion. If you (or they) are interested in seeing the kinds of topics we cover and the way the conference is presented, the slides and recordings are downloadable from the OA13 event held in 2023.

Workshop Themes

Each of the 5 days of OAI14 will be devoted to a particular theme:

  • Research Security and Opennessdo concerns over the misuse of research and innovation threaten Open Science?
  • Open infrastructurewhat is needed globally to provide platforms and services which together create a web of open services and facilities?
  • Navigating AI in Open Sciencehow does Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, sit alongside Open Science?
  • Commercialization and Open Sciencehow can university agendas for commercial exploitation of IPR sit alongside open approaches to sharing and dissemination? And what is the future for expensive Transformative Deals in an Open Science landscape?
  • Research Integritywhat is best practice to ensure that research is conducted ethically, transparently and honestly so that its results can be reproduced?

We encourage early career researchers and professionals and also established colleagues to give papers at OAI events. A list of previous speakers can be found on the Previous OAI workshops webpage. They include:

  • Herbert Van de Sompel – Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Stevan Harnad – University of Southampton
  • Jean-Claude Burgelman – European Commission
  • HeatherJoseph – SPARC
  • Melissa Hagemann – Open Society Institute
  • Catriona MacCallum – formerly PLOS

Global speakers for each of the sessions for OAI14 are now being sought. The final Programme will be ready by mid-May 2025.

Workshop Watch Parties

We also host watch parties in individual locations around the world for those who are not able to watch live online because of issues caused by time zones. Here topics from the recorded sessions are selected, played and discussed locally.