Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an annual opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of open access and share their insights with colleagues.
Publishing Reimagined
In this hands-on, interactive exercise, participants will address the core goals and incentives surrounding the current scholarly publishing landscape and dare to envision alternatives.
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October 23, 2025, 12:00pm -
1:30pm
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Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor
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Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
Not all scholars have equitable access to publishing channels, nor do all relevant audiences have frictionless access to new knowledge. Structures like impact factor and open access article processing charges have become manipulatable, gameable tools for power, influence, and concentrated financial enrichment.
Publishing was not always this way – and it doesn’t have to continue on this path. Please join us for Publishing Reimagined, a hands-on, interactive exercise in creativity, imagination, and optimism. In this workshop, we will address the core goals and incentives surrounding publishing, and dare to envision alternatives. Groups will be asked to dissect a specific problem with the publishing system, then visualize an entirely new model. Participants will leave this workshop with a better understanding of the current scholarly publishing landscape and ideas on how they might change their own participation in the publishing system. A boxed lunch will be provided.
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