Here is the programme of the EA conference on “Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis. The role of peer review and open access in university knowledge dissemination and evaluation”, Mainz, 26-27 January 2016. Among the invited speakers, Paul Wouters (CWTS, University of Leiden, The Netherlands), Joshua Nicholson (Winnower, New York, USA), Jeffrey Beall (University of Colorado, Denver, USA) and Birgit Schmidt (University of Goettingen, Germany). The conference is jointly supported by PEERE and KNOWeSCAPE.