The session recordings from the 2026 Charleston In Between conference in Berlin are now publicly available on the Charleston Hub's YouTube channel.

We've created a playlist, and individual sessions are also linked below. A big thank you to all of our speakers and sponsors!

Keynote: Creative Destruction: An Overview
by Philippe Aghion, Collège de France and London School of Economics; Co-recipient of 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics; Introduction by Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews.

Session 1. Renewal, Disruption, and the Economics of Scholarly Communication

Moderator: Jude Perera, Wiley
Speakers: Lauren Collister (Invest in Open Infrastructure); Alicia Wise (CLOCKSS, Information Power); Daniel Hook (Digital Science); Niels Stern (OAPEN)

Session 2. Beyond the Journal: The Reorganization of Knowledge

Moderator: Heather Staines, Delta Think
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)

Session 3. Academic Libraries in a Reconfigured Knowledge Economy

Moderator: Lou Peck, The International Bunch
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)

Sponsored Sessions:

• Wiley
• EBSCO Information Services
• Paradigm Publishing Services

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