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English: This is the sketchnote from a discussion session 14F in Goldschmidt 2021 event. Website https://2021.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/179. Descriptions as seen in the site: Description: Throughout history, the scholarly community has increasingly made various cases for wider and easier public access to published research, which in the early 2000s became known broadly as Open Access (OA). Over the last two decades, scholarly publishing has undergone a major transformation, with the move to OA marking a radical shift in the financial models of major publishers. OA publication is often conflated with the author-facing business model of Article Processing Charges (APCs), whereby authors (or their institutions) pay a pre-specified fee to cover the publication cost. However, OA publishing was already widespread many years before the advent of APCs, which became popular as OA publishing became increasingly commercialized. Critically, the majority of journals also have self-archiving policies that allow authors to share their peer reviewed work in parallel via 'green' OA routes and without charge. To pursue 'green' OA, numerous stable, long-term platforms are available such as institutional repositories and collaborative services (e.g., EarthArXiv). It is unfortunate that the latter is infrequently used by the geochemical community relative to the scale of the total research outputs produced, and its sustainability remains uncertain. The current APC model imposed by many journals can have deleterious effects on researchers who have no funding, especially from lower income countries. There is a strong connection between geochemical research and protecting our global environment, and we must ensure future research is performed and communicated with this in mind. In this session, we will discuss the latest advances regarding OA in the Earth Science community.