From Tuesday, March 17 to Thursday, March 19, 2026, the openCost conference "openCost: Navigating Cost Transparency" will take place at the DESY in Hamburg.
openCost: Navigating Cost Transparency
When? 17th - 19th March 2026
Where? DESY Hamburg
Program: The conference will focus on insights into the second phase of the openCost project and joint discussions on ways to achieve cost transparency in scientific publishing.
Initial results on the development of an internal metadata schema for cost recording, the expansion of the exchange format, and application scenarios in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and repositories will be presented and discussed. Questions of technical implementation, data integration, and process design will also be addressed, with a particular focus on the further development of the openCost standard, institutional use cases, and the networking of open science infrastructures to promote cost transparency.
The aim is to jointly set the agenda for the second phase of the project, to bring together practical perspectives from the community, and to create space for networking and exchange.
Further information about the conference, the program, and registration will follow shortly.
We look forward to your contributions and to sharing ideas with you in Hamburg!
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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