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                Dear all, please consider submitting your work to the conference below.

Hoping to welcome you to Munich next year,

Best wishes,

Sabina





Call for Papers - FOR 2026 Conference: The Future of Open Research: Reliable,
Responsible, Equitable



4-6 May 2026, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich


Conference URL with preliminary information and submission guidelines:
https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/


The future of open research is uncertain. On the one hand, decades of activism
and institutional support have placed the value and significance of
intelligent strategies and formats for open research (and its dissemination)
beyond doubt. Openness is central to the development of trustworthy,
accountable, collaborative and socially engaged knowledge. On the other hand,
open research measures need to be tailored to diverse research conditions
around the globe and across domains, which in turn requires substantial
investment, local engagement, responsiveness to the ethical and social
dimensions of inquiry, and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

While the implementation of open science principles is certainly facilitated
by ever more accessible digital technologies and training programmes, for many
researchers around the world acquiring the expertise and skills to engage in
open research practices remains elusive. Exposure to open research initiatives
often happens as an end-user rather than as an active contributor. This is
because well-resourced environments produce the tools, set the research goals,
define the standards and methods, which leads to them benefitting
disproportionally from the opportunities. This makes even the best-intentioned
projects into opportunities for the best resourced environments (which are
often in charge of producing open science tools) to impose their own
understanding of research goals, standards and methods on everybody else.
Therefore, without domain- and location-specific input, the risk is that open
research amplifies existing inequities and discrimination in the production,
use and evaluation of knowledge, thereby inflicting damage to the research
system instead of the promised improvements. And this is not to mention the
ongoing debates over how politically unpalatable open science may be, the
extent to which open research has been appropriated by commercial entities
such as large publishing companies and digital platforms, the fraught
intersection between open science and artificial intelligence, and the ongoing
difficulties in supporting and maintaining open research activities and tools
in the long term.



This conference brings together scholars, activists and policymakers to
consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research.
Our goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices
explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves  interrogating
what may constitute that public interest to different audiences and in
different locations around the world. A central element for our discussions
will be the development of a Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research,
detailing ways to utilise open research to foster reliable, responsible, and
equitable forms of inquiry. A draft text of the manifesto will be circulated
two weeks before the conference to all participants, and one session of the
conference will be dedicated to discussing and finalising  the declaration and
its possible signatories.

We call for contributions by researchers across all fields of knowledge
including the arts and humanities, policy-makers interested in research and
development, representatives of scholarly and commercial institutions involved
in research, and civil society associations engaged in knowledge production.
Themes may include, but not be limited to:

  *   Historical, philosophical and social studies of open research and its
implementation
  *   Ethics and research integrity in the context of open research
  *   Bibliometric and other data-intensive investigations of open research
  *   The use of AI in support of socially responsive and responsible forms of
open research
  *   Legal perspectives on open research implementations across different
settings
  *   Training and capacity building for responsive and responsible open
research
  *   Infrastructures and tools supporting responsive and responsible open
research
  *   Policy-making initiatives and recommendations for equitable open
research
  *   Contributions from the arts and humanities to represent open research in
alternative formats



Contributions formats

Contributions may consist of abstracts for individual papers (including by
large groups of co-authors where appropriate) and posters. The conference will
be single stream so we will not have the opportunity to welcome panel
proposals; we ask research groups and projects to please bring together their
perspective and experiences within one talk, delivered jointly by a maximum of
three individuals. Abstracts for both papers and posters are expected to be a
maximum of 500 words and should be accompanied by a description of the
authors background of maximum 500 words length. When submitting your
proposal, you can choose whether you wish to be considered for a talk, a
poster or both. The conference language is English. Session presenters of
accepted proposals are expected to register for the conference (in-person
attendance). Presentations will be recorded for posting online after the
conference.



Submission

We use OxfordAbstracts as a submission system. Please submit your
contributions through the link provided on the conference website by 30
September 2025 (https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/)


Important dates

  *   Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2025
  *   Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 31, 2025
  *   Deadline for early bird registration fees: 31 January 2026
  *   Conference date: May 4-6, 2026, Munich, Germany



Accessibility of materials
It is expected that authors publish materials such as posters and presentation
slides as well as session outcomes at least licensed as CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA
4.0 on Zenodo (you may reserve a
DOI
before) and make it available to the Future of Open Research Community (coming
soon!).
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