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APE 2021: The New Face of Trust - A Virtual Conference on Academic Publishing in Europe

Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies (President of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin) opened the 16th APE. He stressed he would have preferred to meet face to face and regretted this was not possible. He said that trust acts as the foundation on which the publisher-author relationship is built and that the academic field is a network of relationships connected by trust. He stressed that trust is mutual. He took us back to the year 1944. June 29 used to be an annual day of celebration for the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. That year, 1944, was different of course. However, special academic achievements were still honored, and the golden Leibniz Medal was awarded to Leopold Glotz. Prof. Markschies said that evidently, even during the Nazi-regime it was demonstrated that academic independence should always be ensured. This event demonstrated that academic publishing can preserve freedom of academic endeavors in difficult times.