The Open Access Publishing Conference A Resounding Success

IPSA held its first hybrid conference entitled Open Access Publishing: A New Era in Scholarly Communication on 13-14 September 2022. The conference was presented in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Concordia University and the American Political Science Association (APSA). We would like to thank our partners, sponsors and promotional partners for their contribution to this international conference.

The two-day event, hosted on the Zoom platform, saw over 40 leading scholars, publishers and editors discuss a range of current themes in Open Access publishing. Geoffrey Boulton, Chair of the International Science Council’s Project on the Future of Scientific Publishing, delivered the opening keynote address. The conference program included five panels and three roundtable discussions and concluded with closing remarks by Guylaine Beaudry, Trenholme Dean of Libraries at McGill University.

IPSA’s two main projects were also announced at the conference. The first, IPSA’s Open Access Publishing Survey, will be coordinated by Executive Committee member Emilia Palonen and launched in 2023. The second is the upcoming IPSA book entitled Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism which will be published in Open Access format in early 2023.

If you missed the Open Access Publishing Conference, you can read a summary of each session and view the videos on the conference page.