16th Berlin Open Access Conference report

National-level delegations representing research communities from 38 countries across six continents gathered at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference (B16) held from 6-7 June 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Returning to the setting of the inaugural conference in this series, which gave rise to the foundational Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) some twenty years ago, the international B16 participants utilized the conference to refine, renew, and coordinate its approaches and strategies, with a particular focus on transformative open access negotiations with scholarly publishers.

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