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.
Save the Date
What: “openCost: Navigating Cost Transparency”
When: March 17 to 19, 2026
Where: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY (Hamburg)
Call for Posters
As part of the conference, we are planning an interactive poster
session with short presentations to showcase projects, initiatives,
and institutional use cases. We invite interested parties to submit
poster proposals. We particularly welcome contributions on the
following topics:
- Cost transparency in scientific publishing
- Sustainable financing and budgeting of open access infrastructures
- Transparency in diamond open access
- Internal workflows for processing transformative agreements
- Diversity of publication objects and their cost recording
- Technical and organizational workflows in dealing with publication costs
- Open access projects related to cost and budget issues
- Publication costs as FAIR research data
We look forward to receiving your poster proposals in the form of
abstracts (max. 300 words) by
October 31, 2025,
via our conference tool Indico.
The conference language is English.
Further information about the conference, the program, and
registration will follow shortly. For more information about the
openCost project, visit
ww.opencost.de.
We look forward to your contributions and to sharing ideas with you in
Hamburg!
