One of the big events on this year’s open access (OA) conference circuit was the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9), a meeting held every other year to discuss current and emerging issues in the ever-changing field of scholarly communication. More than 200 participants from the international community joined together June 17–19 at the University of Geneva to discuss big issues, learn from each other, and challenge perceptions related to publishing and scholarly discourse.