From Monday, October 7 to Wednesday, October 9, 2024, the openCost conference "openCost: The Road To Publication Cost Transparency - The Next Stage" will take place at the University of Regensburg. As part of the conference, the openCost team will present the results obtained as well as possible subsequent uses for the community.
openCost: The Road To Publication Cost Transparency - The Next Stage
When? 07th - 09th October 2024
Where? University of Regensburg
Program: The workshop program consists of two parts:
A workshop aimed at repository operators will take place on Monday, October 7. There we would like to discuss implementation options with you as repository operators. Based on a brief presentation of the implementation at the institutions involved in the project, the focus will be on your questions.
On October 8 and 9, the conference will take place. There we will present the final openCost schema. Building on this, we will demonstrate workflows and implementations at the institutions of the project partners and show potential for your own institutions. The event will also focus on new functions of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) that have been developed as part of openCost and are designed to simplify processes in your institutions. In addition, the exchange of data from institutions that report publication costs to the library of Forschungszentrum Jülich and to OpenAPC as part of the DFG funding program “Open Access Publication Costs” and their implementation in openCost format will also be discussed.
The conference is aimed at employees of academic libraries, libraries participating in the DFG program “Open Access Publication Costs”, EZB users, OA community, repository operators.
The openCost project:
The DFG funded project „openCost" creates a technical infrastructure to comprehensively record publication cost data, make them openly distributable by means of standardized interfaces, and accessible by well known platforms like EZB, OpenAPC or the the OpenAccess Monitor.
Funded by the German Research Foundation 
via grant 457354095.
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