Keynote: Philippe Aghion

This session examines the current upheaval in scholarly communication through the lens of creative destruction, focusing on the economic forces that enable genuine renewal rather than superficial change. It brings together theory, practice, and institutional experience to explore how value is created, captured, and redistributed as established models are challenged.

**Moderated by** Jude Perera, Wiley<br>
**Speakers:** Lauren Collister (Invest in Open Infrastructure); Alicia Wise (CLOCKSS, Information Power); Daniel Hook (Digital Science); Niels Stern (OAPEN)

Renewal, Disruption, and the Economics of Scholarly Communication

Scholarly communication is moving beyond a system centered on the journal article toward a more distributed ecosystem of trust, review, curation, machine readiness, and public-facing research outputs. This panel brings together leaders working on open infrastructure, peer review reform, non-traditional outputs, policy research, and AI-enabled knowledge systems to explore how research will be validated, preserved, discovered, and reused in the future. Together they will examine how libraries, publishers, researchers, and new infrastructures can help ensure that trustworthy knowledge—not just articles—remains visible, actionable, and socially valuable in an increasingly complex information landscape.

**Moderated by** Heather Staines, Delta Think<br>
**Speakers:** Toby Green (Coherent Digital); Johan Rooryk (OPERAS); Ludo Waltman (Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University); and Markus Stocker  (Lab Knowledge Infrastructures at the TIB)

Beyond the Journal: The Reorganization of Knowledge

Sponsored Session

Academic libraries are navigating a period of profound disruption, where AI, economic pressure, and the fragmentation of open infrastructure are changing not just how knowledge is accessed, but how it is created, trusted and governed.
Moving beyond "traditional" roles as stewards and curators, libraries are grappling with existential questions: What should they stop doing? What must they defend? And how can they co-create a sustainable, open, and trustworthy knowledge ecosystem?
Join our panelists in this candid, unscripted discussion and explore tensions around trust, integrity, open infrastructure, collective action, and the evolving public value of libraries.


**Moderated by** Lou Peck, The International Bunch<br>
**Speakers:** Chris Bourg (MIT Libraries); Curtis Brundy (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Danny Kingsley (Deakin University); Bianca Kramer (Sesame Open Science); Fiona Morley, (Maynooth University Library)

Academic Libraries in a Reconfigured Knowledge Economy

Charleston In Between is a focused, community-driven one and a half day conference designed to extend the conversations that begin at the annual Charleston Conference. 

Charleston In Between

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