Frances Pinter, Central European University Press The goal of the Open Climate Campaign (OCC) is to promote open access to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. This four-year, $4.5 million project is funded by the Arcadia Fund and Open Society Foundations and managed by Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC. It promotes internationally the adoption and implementation of strong OA policies, overcoming legal barriers and help funders and environmental organisations make better use of OA. We look at how an issue-based OA campaign such as OCC can fit within the broader scientific and scholarly communications issues including the role of libraries.

1. Ambitions and Approaches
April 8-10, 2024 - UKSG
Dr Frances Pinter
Executive Chair, Central European University Press
Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics
Steering Committee, Open Climate Campaign
This work is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence

2. The Open Climate Campaign Team
The Open Climate Campaign is a partnership between Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL and guided by
a multidisciplinary Steering Committee. The Campaign secretariat operates out of Creative Commons.
This campaign is made possible by grants from the Open Society Foundations and Arcadia.

3. Open Access to climate change &
biodiversity research will lead to
increased equitable
collaboration in finding faster
solutions to the climate crisis

4. Our Vision
● We are all affected by climate change. We must all be engaged in finding solutions to the climate
crisis. To do this, we require unrestricted immediate open access to climate change
and biodiversity research.
● By 2026, we will have driven open access policy adoption for climate change research and led in
the development of equitable approaches to ensuring all climate change and biodiversity research
is openly available.
● By 2030, we will have steered policy change to enable open access to all climate change and
biodiversity research.

5. Campaign Goals & Initiatives
Coalition
Building
Advocacy
Policy
Lab
Unbinding
Workshop
Collaborating with 15+ national
governments on developing &
implementing strong OA
policies
Bringing ‘open’ as a
prerequisite for finding
climate solutions to
COP29

6. Endorsements
Consider adding your support.

7. Unbinding Workshop: Early Preview
Putting into practice Peter Suber’s 2004 trailblazing proposal for providing OA to past research
Unbinding Knowledge https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4317663/suber_unbind.html
Goal: To identify seminal climate research that is behind a paywall & make this research open access.
We are seeking publisher partners to collaborate with on this critical initiative. If you
are interested in learning more, contact Rebecca Ross at
rebecca@creativecommons.org.

8. Looking Forward: Advocacy
We are actively looking to collaborate with….
Academic Librarians OA Advocates Environmental Organizations
● To connect on & amplify shared
goals
● Collaborate on increasing climate
change research in institutional
repositories
● Advocating for strong OA policies
● Identify other opportunities to
prioritize climate change research
as OA
● Collaborate on equitable paths to
OA that are grounded in global
needs
● Endorse & support OA initiatives
● Develop & implement OA policies
● Use Creative Commons licenses on
all material
● Endorse the Campaign and
collaborate on activities

9. Cautious Optimism
• Covid Times – precedent setting
• More OA generally
• More awareness of the issues
• More opportunities
Policies and mandates
Funding flow changes
AI and open-sourced models – EQTY Lab

10. What can you do as a librarian ?
• Fast-track climate and biodiversity research into your institutional
repository or a suitable subject repository.
• Talk with your climate and biodiversity researchers about how they can
make their work open access
• Attend an Open Climate Campaign Event.
• Promote the campaign through your newsletter, blog and social media.

11. JOIN US!
1. Request support in helping you promote your OA policies
2. Invite us to present at your events or at your institutions
3. Connect us with environmental organizations
4. Have a call with the Open Climate Campaign
@OPENCLIMATECAMP
www.openclimatecampaign.org
contact@openclimatecampaign.org