This roundtable is designed for writers who are interested in discussion why open access moves the Open Education movement forward, and strategies to secure open access for their own work when engaging with publishers. The session sparks conversations with three scenarios - each captures a set of conditions that highlight the challenges of moving from traditional copyright and publishing agreements to the open access licenses needed to take our community beyond OER into open access. The roundtable will produce shared approaches to effectively advocate and advance publishing research and other materials that may serve as OER as well as their own work within a discipline. The roundtable is designed to build our connections with OER and encourage publishers to publish with open access.