Keynote: Björn Brembs: Replacing academic journals

“The cost of knowledge” – this year’s Open Access Week motto asks why publishing publicly funded research still costs so much, and who benefits. 
Björn Brembs will argue that today’s journal system is structurally broken: a handful of publishers extract far more from public budgets than the service justifies, starving the infrastructure that reliable, reproducible research actually needs. Thus, the research system faces not only a replicability crisis but also an affordability crisis and a functionality crisis. 
Drawing on his paper “Replacing academic journals” he will sketch what a leaner, community-owned alternative could look like.