How have we ended up here? The case for Open Science

This was a keynote talk for Open Access week 2024 held at Deakin University. The talk covers:

* A short history of how open access has shifted from community-led initiatives to a commercial juggernaught

* A look at the alarming issues we have with scholarly publishing today

* Exploration of the expansion of commercial academic publishers into research information

* The challenge that university rankings pose

* Why we need to think about all of these aspects as connected

* What we can do – it involves changing the way we evaluate, teach up and coming researchers, and publish