Events
KIB Podcast: Open science and why it matters – the libraries, the researchers and the many aspects on open science
While waiting for October to come we propose listening to the latest episode of the KIB podcast. In this episode we take a closer look at open science, why it matters, and how it can help us meet some of the major challenges facing research today. With growing concerns about research funding, especially recent cuts in the US that may affect core scientific infrastructure, the need for openness, collaboration, and resilient research practices has never been greater.
Joining this conversation are Lina Waltin, librarian at Karolinska Institutet University Library, Patrik Magnusson, senior researcher and the chair of the Open Science Working Group at Karolinska Institutet and also the director of the Swedish Twin Registry and Lars Nordesjö, the head of publication infrastructure and media at KTH library. Together, they explore what open science means in practice, its benefits, the challenges it brings, and what the future might hold.
Open Access Week 2025 @ British University in Egypt Library
The University Library will be celebrating International Open Access Week 2025 with researchers.
The Library is proud to deliver on-site workshops and offer registration for global online talks during #OAWeek to learn about the power of OPEN knowledge environment for researchers.
Open Access Week Pakistan
XploreOpen Celebrates Open Access Week 2025
November 14–15, 2025 | Global Theme: Equity, Openness & Inclusion - Open Infrastructures
Una década abriendo caminos al conocimiento a través del RIAA de la FTyCA
Para conmemorar los 10 años de la creación del RIAA - Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto y de la adopción de las políticas de acceso abierto en la Facultad de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas-UNCA se llevarán a cabo dos actividades:
1.- Trayectorias y desafíos a 10 años del repositorio institucional: presentación a cargo de la directora y coordinadoras de la Comisión: Mg. Maria Vanesa Doria – Mg. Carola Victoria Flores – Dra. Ivanna Maricruz Lazarte.
2.- Presentación del E-Book Acceso Abierto al conocimiento. Estrategias, derechos y claves para compartir la producción académica y científica.
Autores: María Vanesa Doria –Carola Victoria Flores - Ivanna Maricruz Lazarte - Andrea Noelia Silva Tapia.
The Right of Return: A Report on UCLA Library's Open Books Pilot
UCLA Library will present initial findings from its Open Books Pilot, a project designed to restore copyright ownership to UCLA faculty for selected monograph publications. Supported by a 2023 grant from the Arcadia Fund, the pilot facilitates the re-acquisition of rights from publishers. This enables faculty to regain control over their intellectual property and makes the titles available open access.
Through Creative Commons licensing and deposit in the UC eScholarship repository, the program ensures long-term preservation and global access to faculty scholarship. This initiative aligns with Arcadia’s mission to promote open access and the free exchange of knowledge.
We will discuss how the pilot is a win-win for all participants. Join us to learn how this model empowers faculty authors, institutions and publishers, and how it contributes to a more open and equitable scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Presented by Rina Pantalony and Jennifer Chan
Encuentro Red Divulga Colombia 2025 - Ciencia que resuena: voces, rutas y territorios
La Red Divulga Colombia is a network of dialogue, wonder, and knowledge that connects different voices and experiences across the country. We are a diverse community made up of teachers, students, science communicators (both professionals and experts), and science enthusiasts who work to put knowledge at the center of the conversation. Our purpose is to collectively build a space where we all feel represented, encouraging more people to understand, value, and embrace the contributions we make to knowledge and society.
The Divulga Colombia Network 2025 Meeting, under the theme "Science that resonates: voices, routes, and territories," aims to strengthen scientific outreach as a collective and transformative practice. It will be a platform to recognize the diversity of actors driving public communication of science in the country, share experiences, chart joint paths, and position territories as meeting points for research, creativity, and the daily life of communities.
This event is held within the framework of International Open Access Week.
Biens publics numériques : Solutions ouvertes et IA pour un accès inclusif au savoir dans les pays du sud
Les Journées de l’Éducation et de la Science Ouvertes ont pour ambition de favoriser une dynamique collective en faveur d’un accès équitable, durable et inclusif à la connaissance. En réunissant enseignants, chercheurs, étudiants, responsables académiques et partenaires du monde socio-économique, l’événement entend poser les bases d’une culture académique plus ouverte, collaborative et résiliente, capable de s’adapter aux mutations technologiques et géopolitiques actuelles. https://uma.rnu.tn/fr
Data Horror Stories
Disappearing data! Unreadable ancient files! Ordinary researchers losing hours of their time trapped in data nightmares! This Halloween week, join UNM HSLIC's Research Data Specialist for an hour of spine-tingling, hair-raising data horror stories...and some advice to prevent them from happening to you. Feel free to lurk or bring some data horror stories of your own to share. Beware: This session is not for the faint of heart.
Publicar em acesso aberto: onde e como?
Publicar é inerente ao processo de investigação científica e corresponde a uma das formas mais frequentes de disseminação do trabalho realizado. O movimento de Acesso Aberto trouxe ao mercado editorial outros modos de abordagem deste processo que importa conhecer e explorar.
Na sessão Publicar em acesso aberto: onde e como? serão apresentadas e detalhadas essas possibilidades, reportando às exigências das agências financiadoras de investigação científica e centrando-se na resposta a três questões essenciais: onde publicar em Acesso Aberto, evitando as práticas de edição agressivas e/ou duvidosas por parte de alguns editores comerciais e como publicar em Acesso Aberto, garantindo o impacto da produção científica e respeitando os direitos de autor.
¿Dónde se encuentra el conocimiento de la Facultad de Humanidades de la UNMdP? Difusión del Repositorio Institucional
En la Semana del Acceso Abierto la Gestión del Repositorio consiste en visibilizar el quehacer desde la perspectiva de la comunidad y sus necesidades. Para ello se realiza la difusión de los servicios del Repositorio Institucional de la Facultad de Humanidades. UNMdP por medio de variadas intervenciones, algunas de ellas son:
*Porpuestas para Redes sociales.
*Dar a conocer la gestión del Repositorio y del Acceso Abierto en los Departamentos
*Presentación temática en la asignatura "Legislación y Actuación profesional" de la carrera de Bibliotecología, AA y Licencias de uso
*Estreno de Tutoriales de uso del Repositorio
*Otros...
1a Jornada de Ciència Oberta
Lloc: Sala d’Actes del Rectorat
Programa:
9:15-9:30h – Recollida d’inscripcions
9:30-9:45h – Benvinguda per part de la Vicerectora d’Innovació, Transferència i Emprenedoria, Rosa Maria Sebastián
9:45-10:30h – Ciència Oberta: moviment global i actuacions locals - Lluís Anglada, Assessor de ciència oberta, CSUC
10:30-11:15h – La ciència oberta i els nous mètodes d’avaluar la recerca a la universitat – Pastora Martínez, Comissionada per l’Acció Internacional, UOC
11:15-11:30h - Torn obert de preguntes
11:30-12h- Pausa
12-12:45h - Declaració de Barcelona – Núria Benítez, Responsable de l’àrea Estratègica i de Ciència Oberta, iCERCA
12:45-13:30h - CoARA a la UAB i grups de treball – Teresa Sordé, Departament de Sociologia, José Luis Molina, Departament d’Antropologia Social i Cultural i Eva Nueno, Servei de Biblioteques.
13:30-13:45h - Torn obert de preguntes
13:45-14h - Clausura per part de la Vicerectora de Recerca, Assumpció Malgosa
¿Quién Posee Nuestro Conocimiento? Monopolios y Ecosistemas Comerciales en la Ciencia
En el marco de la Semana Internacional del Acceso Abierto (#OAWeek) 2025 y su llamado a debatir sobre “¿Quién es el dueño de nuestro conocimiento?”, la comunidad REMERI-CUDI te invita a unirte a la discusión y reflexión crítica ante la creciente influencia de los monopolios de la publicación y los ecosistemas comerciales que rodean a la investigación y la comunicación académica.
¿Cómo impactan estos modelos en el acceso equitativo, la visibilidad y la preservación de la ciencia? ¿Qué papel debe asumir la comunidad académica para reafirmar el control sobre su propia producción intelectual?
¡Acompáñanos a debatir sobre cómo impulsar una Ciencia Abierta realmente justa y sostenible en la defensa de un conocimiento comunitario, abierto y sin barreras!
Bilgimizin Sahibi Kim? Verinin İzinde Açıklığın Gücü Üzerine Bir Tartışma
“Bilgimizin sahibi kim?” teması, içinde yaşadığımız çalkantılı zaman diliminde birey ve toplumların ürettiği bilgi üzerindeki kontrolü yeniden nasıl sağlayabilecekleri hakkında çarpıcı bir soru soruyor. Ayrıca bilginin nasıl üretilip paylaşıldığı, nereden geldiği ve kimlerin sesinin duyulup duyulmadığı üzerine de düşünmeye davet ediyor.
Open Science in Practice: Integrating Data, Devices, and Publication
This session explores how open-science practices and data-integrated publishing can strengthen reproducible research in Pakistan. Based on the Conduct Science flagship presentation, it will highlight open instrumentation, FAIR data workflows, and metadata standards that can make regional research more interoperable and transparent.
[Open Source 2.0] Stop with open access: towards an open science based on open source resources?
What is "open source"? In reality, answering to this question is extremely complex, this concept is even a source of conflict in its interpretation. Usually associated with software, we could be at the dawn of a paradigm shift in the very meaning of this concept which could extend beyond software which could encompass various typologies of digital resources.
This will be a discussion about the idea of open source resources, this (open) resources where source files are provided to enable truly their modification (ex: odt/docx/latex files of a pdf). Open licenses provide the right to modify without the ability to do so, open source resources is probably the missing step in open science.
Come to this exchange to try to understand "open source" together!
Initiative related to a citizen research project on the meaning of open source with the intent to build a collaborative open science and open education project (https://open-source-undefined.org/).
Open Science Made Simple: How Data Sharing Shapes the Future of Medicine
Open science is transforming how we share knowledge, data, and discoveries. This webinar introduces the core principles of open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data for early-career researchers and medical students. Learn how transparency, collaboration, and smart data management can make your research reproducible and impactful across disciplines.
We’ll discuss real examples of how open-data ecosystems connect devices, data, and publications to make every discovery traceable and reusable.
Join us to explore how you can be part of a global movement making science more connected, transparent, and fair.
Our knowledge: our rights
Knowledge produced by scientific research is a common good and a fundamental right, not a privilege for the few. Scientific articles, often the result of research funded by public resources and the collaborative work of researchers, should be accessible to everyone, without economic or institutional barriers. Restricting access to such content through paywalls or exclusive publishing models undermines the principle of equity, slows scientific progress, and denies civil society the benefits of shared knowledge. The free circulation of knowledge—enabled by open access publishing models and transparency policies—is essential for a truly democratic, collaborative, and socially driven research ecosystem.
Behind this effort, there are volunteers who work tirelessly and without compensation to make this miracle possible. There are journals that are not funded by any institution and do not generate revenue, yet they exist thanks to the passion of these volunteers for knowledge sharing. For these reasons, such journals must be protected and supported—even when they are penalized by a research evaluation system that tends to disregard them simply because they are young or not indexed in conventional metrics.
Promoting open access to scientific articles is not only an ethical stance but also a strategic choice for the future of research and society.
Open Science initiatives at IBICT and their impact on Brazilian science
The event aims to discuss Open Science and Open Access from a critical perspective. It will present the Open Science initiatives at IBICT and their impact on Brazilian science.
Conversatorio virtual "Soberanía editorial e inteligencia artificial. Perspectivas desde Latinoamérica"
La Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación (Secihti), en el marco de Open Access Week, invita al conversatorio virtual “Soberanía editorial e inteligencia artificial. Perspectivas desde Latinoamérica”, a realizarse el viernes 24 de octubre de 2025, a las 11:00 h (zona centro de México).
El objetivo del webinario es dialogar con especialistas de México y de América Latina sobre los impactos de la inteligencia artificial en la producción, circulación, preservación y usos comerciales del conocimiento, con énfasis en la soberanía editorial y la búsqueda de marcos de acción conjunta para la región.
Conocimiento abierto, extractivismo digital y soberanía editorial
En América Latina, la construcción de infraestructuras públicas y sistemas de información científica colaborativas, han jugado un papel estratégico para favorecer el acceso, visibilidad y preservación de la producción académica generada principalmente por las instituciones públicas, que son quienes sostienen el ecosistema regional de revistas bajo un modelo no comercial y controlado por la academia, el cual constituye un referente internacional alternativo frente al que se promueve desde la denominada ciencia de corriente principal, acoplado a las grandes editoriales internacionales que promueven un modelo comercial basado en pagos por publicar (APC).
Sin embargo, este modelo enfrenta hoy tensiones críticas derivadas de transformaciones globales en la circulación y formas de apropiación del conocimiento. Por un lado, con el lanzamiento del Plan S en 2018 se ha intensificado la concentración de la información científica en plataformas comerciales internacionales, reforzada por los acuerdos transformativos y el dominio de sistemas de indexación basados en métricas como el factor de impacto. Por otro lado, la rápida expansión de la inteligencia artificial generativa y de técnicas de minería de textos y datos (TDM) ha abierto un campo de disputa sobre la apropiación del conocimiento en acceso abierto.
Esto se debe a que gran parte de los modelos de inteligencia artificial (IA) se entrenan con corpus que incluyen artículos y datos financiados con fondos públicos, pero su explotación comercial carece de mecanismos de reciprocidad hacia autores, instituciones y comunidades académicas que generaron las investigaciones y contenidos usados por la IA (Creative Commons, 2023; UNESCO 2023).
De esta forma, podemos decir que, si bien se han logrado importantes avances regionales para reconocer el derecho humano a la ciencia, en la región persisten tendencias que encauzan la producción científica hacia los circuitos internacionales y que ahora enfrentan los riesgos de extractivismo digital por IA. Por lo anterior, este panel se propone abordar esta doble problemática: cómo fortalecer la soberanía editorial latinoamericana frente a dinámicas globales de desposesión y extractivismo digital, y qué políticas, regulaciones, esquemas tecnológicos y acuerdos regionales son necesarios para garantizar que la apertura del conocimiento no derive en usos comerciales, sino en un mayor aprovechamiento social, valorización y posicionamiento regional.
Keynote: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing
What would happen if Google Scholar were to vanish tomorrow? For many researchers, it has become the default gateway to academic literature, yet its dominance also exposes vulnerabilities in how knowledge is discovered and accessed. This presentation will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, is challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication. It concludes with a call to strengthen and sustain scholar-led publishing infrastructures—so that access to knowledge is secured by the academic community itself, not left at the mercy of corporate platforms.
Prepare Your Data for Openness
Adopting open data practices can improve collaboration, safeguard data, and help researchers get ahead of data sharing requirements from funders and publishers. Data sharing and transparency can benefit science and increase researcher impact. But what does it take to make data genuinely open? This presentation will provide strategies for meaningfully open data, offer choices in data sharing, describe some limitations of openness, and help researchers get a jump start preparing data for openness.
Behind the Scenes: Open Scholarship
Open scholarship and open education can often feel mystifying—especially from the outside. But even for those working within these practices, common challenges and shared experiences are bound to emerge across institutions.
Approaches to countering the gatekeeping of knowledge manifest in various forms, including library-led initiatives and programming, teaching and learning centres' guidebooks, and collaborations, as well as student union endorsements of open education, open-access university press publishing, and open science working groups. These efforts—led by libraries and librarians, university presses and their dedicated staff, teaching and learning centres and their instructional designers, faculty groups, student unions, and more—might often be united by a common goal: to prioritize community over commercial interests in the pursuit of democratizing knowledge.
This Behind the Scenes hybrid event brings together practitioners from different institutions to share what excites them about a current project, the behind-the-scenes work that makes it possible, and a key challenge they face in their practice!
Copyright First Responders Presents: Data Cartels, the Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information featuring Sarah Lamdan
Join Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, for a discussion of her 2022 book, Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information (Stanford University Press). Drawing from her expertise in law and library science, Lamdan explores how a handful of powerful corporations—often better known for legal and academic databases—have transformed public data into private commodities, which raises urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and access to information in our digital society.
Ready, Set, Share! All You Need to Know to Deposit Your Scholarship in DASH
Drop by to learn how to deposit your scholarship in Harvard’s open access repository, DASH! Claire Blechman, Digital Repository Coordinator, will give a brief live demo, explain the benefits of making your research openly available, and answer all your questions.
Open for All: Knowledge Commons, KCWorks, and the Future of Open Access
Join us for a webinar exploring KCWorks, an open repository platform designed to support collaborative creation, sharing, and stewardship of open knowledge. In the spirit of Open Access Week, this session will introduce participants to the features of the Knowledge Commons, demonstrate how KCWorks empowers communities to contribute and curate content, and highlight real-world examples of uploads to the repository. Whether you're an educator, researcher, student, or open education advocate, you'll leave with practical tools and inspiration for contributing to a more open and inclusive knowledge ecosystem.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING – HELPING TO UNDERSTAND "WHO OWNS INFORMATION"
Who really owns the information we create and use? Join us for Copyright and Licensing – Helping to Understand “Who Owns Information” and explore how copyright, Creative Commons, and open licensing shape access,
Otvorenica: kviz za svaku glavu
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Kviz je osmišljen da bude informativan i zabavan za sve sudionike – uz pitanja iz opće kulture i poneku zanimljivost iz otvorenog pristupa. Očekuju vas smijeh, natjecateljski duh i brojni “aha!” trenuci u opuštenoj atmosferi.
Formirajte ekipu od 2 do 4 osobe i pridružite se zajedničkoj zabavi uz zanimljiva pitanja i poticajne izazove za razmišljanje!
Prijave su otvorene do 23. listopada 2025. – broj timova je ograničen! Molimo vas da svoje timove prijavite kako bismo osigurali mjesto za sve zainteresirane.
Za sva pitanja ili dodatne informacije obratite se putem e-maila hsaric@irb.hr ili osobno u knjižnici.
Spremni ste za izazov? Jer Otvorenica je doista kviz za svaku glavu!
Open Science and Citizen Science with #semanticClimate: Open-Software for Knowledge Liberation
Session 1: 8:30am-9:45am EST
Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools presented by Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ph.D. student, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) and Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate and Ms. Shaik Zainab, Anurag University, Hyderabad. The session will provide an introduction to corpus creation and pygetpapers for literature review. Links to the recording will be available after the session.
They will be showing their complete READER-oriented toolkit. This takes OA material (both academic articles and more generally Open material such as the UN IPCC reports) and automatically turns it into semantic form (no AI contamination at this stage). There are several components, all Open, and managed by Renu, and largely automatic (i.e. their default use can scope a query in the time it takes to download material):
corpus builder
semantic encyclopedia
search
annotation
knowledge graphs
Jupyter notebooks for demonstration and learning
This is highly flexible (written in Python) but designed for use by those without technical knowledge (other than having Python on the machine).
Infostand
Das Open-Access-Team der Universitätsbibliothek lädt alle Interessierten zu einem Infostand im zentralen Eingangsbereich der UB vor dem Infoterminal zwischen 13 und 15 Uhr ein. In ungezwungener Atmosphäre vermitteln Expert*innen des Teams grundlegendes Wissen über Open Access und geben Ratschläge für die Praxis. Open Access – was ist das eigentlich? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es an der Universität Trier, open access zu publizieren und zu finanzieren?
Wie kann ich meine Open-Access-Publikation an der Universität Rostock finanzieren?
Sie möchten Ihren Artikel oder Ihr Buch im Open Access veröffentlichen, aber haben noch viele Fragen zur Umsetzung und Finanzierung? Dann schauen Sie gerne bei unserer Info-Veranstaltung vorbei, in der wir die Fördermöglichkeiten für Open Access an der Universität Rostock erläutern.
¿Sueña la IA generativa con la ciencia abierta?
La Biblioteca de la Universidad de Navarra participa, un año más, en la Semana Internacional del Acceso Abierto, una iniciativa que promueve la difusión libre del conocimiento científico y académico.
Con este motivo, se ha organizado una conferencia con la participación de Raúl Aguilera, director del Servicio de Biblioteca de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, bajo el título: ¿Sueña la IA generativa con la ciencia abierta?
Detalles del evento:
Viernes 24 de octubre
12:30 h
Aula 30 (edificio Central).
Se retransmitirá en directo, a través de Google Meet
Webinar “What You Need to Know About Open Access and Data Management?”
In the evolving landscape of academic research, the principles of Open Science are reshaping how knowledge is created, shared, and governed. This event invites researchers, administrators, and institutional stakeholders to explore a critical question: Who owns our knowledge?
Through a series of focused presentations and interactive activities, we will examine the institutional and practical dimensions of knowledge ownership in the context of Open Science.
Participants will gain insights into:
Open Science Policy.
Practical tools and templates for research data management.
Community-building efforts to support an open research culture.