This special issue collects the written contributions of the 5th jurOA Conference 2024 (www.jurOA.de); which was dedicated to the effects of digitization on the opening of legal scholarship towards Open Access (OA); Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Science. The issue examines whether open science is an element of good scientific practice; which framework conditions can promote a cultural change towards open scientific practices and which legal issues structure this development. Further focal points are: OA commentaries as a new format Open textbooks and OER and their added value in legal didactics Open publication infrastructures between established publishers and scholar-led publishing With contributions by Lamia Amhaouach-Lares | Elke Brehm | RA Dr. iur. Apollo Dauag | Esther de Haan | Prof. Dr. Nikolas Eisentraut | Prof. Dr. jur. Ellen Euler; LL.M. | Philipp Falkenburg | Dr. Georg Fischer | Anna Gerchen | Alexander Gleixner | Dr. Sué Gonzáles Hauck | Jonas Hantow | Prof. Thomas Hartmann; LL.M. | Dr. Maxi Kindling | Dr. Johannes Kruse | Linda Martin | Dr. Maike Neufend | Dr. Kristina Peters; M.A. | Maximilian Petras | Fabian Rack | Prof. Dr. Nora Rzadkowski; MHE | László Matthias | Simon-Nanko | Tobias Steiner; M.A. | Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh | Dr. Felix Würkert