In celebration of International Open Access Week, UNCW Library and Research & Innovation are pleased to host a talk from Eric Harbeson, Scholarly Publishing Legal Fellow at Authors Alliance. Eric will discuss recent and ongoing changes to U.S. research funders' public access policies and how those changes interact with institutional and publisher policies. All are welcome.

Join us for a virtual keynote presentation from Juan Pablo Alperin, Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), an Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, and the Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University. This talk will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, are challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication.

Con motivo de la celebración Internacional del Acceso Abierto se propone desde la gestión del Repositorio Institucional "Humadoc" de la Facultad de Humanidades, UNMdP, una serie de intervenciones en cursadas de carreras de posgrado.

Temáticas a abordar:

Publicación de Tesis y Trabajos finales de Posgrado en Repositorios Institucionales. Impacto y visibilidad

Resguardo de Objetos Digitales y Licencias Creative Commons

Comenzar una investigación. Estado del Arte en Repositorios Institucionales de Acceso Abierto

Dans le cadre de la Semaine internationale du libre accès, le Réseau Circé a le plaisir de recevoir Lynne Bowker, professeure titulaire au Département de langues, linguistique et traduction de l’Université Laval, pour une conférence intitulée « L’accessibilité à la science : quel rôle pour le langage ?

Du bist Bibliothekar*in und hast zwar schon von Open Access gehört, aber du hast vor allem Fragezeichen im Kopf? Preprint und Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht klingen wie Fremdwörter? DOI, APC und CC sind Buchstabensalat für dich? Dann ist das die Session für dich!

In dieser Session bestimmst du die Themen. Wir bieten Raum für Fragen und Austausch, damit du deine Kolleg*innen im Open-Access-Team besser verstehst und den Bibliotheksbenutzer*innen kompetenter zu Open Access Auskunft geben kannst. Die Session wird nicht aufgezeichnet, so dass du keine Hemmungen haben musst, deine Fragen zu stellen.

Laura Tobler, langjährige eRessourcen- und Open-Access-Spezialistin, moderiert die Session.

Join us for “Open for All: Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Open Access Practices”, a virtual webinar hosted by the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) in celebration of International Open Access Week 2025. Taking place on 21st October 2025 from 10 AM to 4 PM EAT, the event will bring together researchers, librarians, publishers, policymakers, and funders to explore inclusive and sustainable Open Access (OA) models that advance equity in scholarly publishing—particularly in the Global South. Through interactive sessions, panel discussions, and tool demonstrations, the webinar will address key themes such as institutional OA policies, ethical publishing, capacity building, and collaborative approaches for driving equitable knowledge sharing. The event is free and open to all, with recordings shared post-event to promote continued learning and engagement.

Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication for our 4th annual panel celebrating International Open Access Week 2025.

Using this year’s theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge, as a backdrop, panelists will discuss what it means to their libraries’ mission and services. We will also explore how libraries help faculty and students understand their rights as authors and creators, and how they help them to retain ownership of their intellectual property. We will wrap-up by looking ahead at how each panelist envisions the future of libraries as stewards and promoters of knowledge ownership. A Q & A session will immediately follow.

This event is co-sponsored by the UAB Libraries and the Alabama Library Association Scholarly Communication Round Table.

In line with the 2025 International Open Access Week theme, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?“, the NMU Library is organising an engaging programme titled: Owning Your Identity: One Researcher at a Time”. It is designed to help researchers understand and take charge of their scholarly identity in a digital and open knowledge environment.

The event will feature experienced professionals who will facilitate interactive sessions on building and managing researcher profiles, enhancing visibility through Open Access platforms, protecting intellectual identity, and leveraging global scholarly tools to increase impact.

The Library intends to create awareness ahead of the event through its social media platforms, using flyers, reels, and short features. Throughout the week, we will align our activities with the global programme by:

Monday & Tuesday: Sharing insights from the global Open Access Week activities on our social media handles.

Wednesday: Hosting our flagship programme “Owning Your Identity: One Researcher at a Time!” across our two campuses’ libraries.

Thursday & Friday: Joining the global conversation by amplifying highlights and resources from Open Access Week.

Saturday: Sharing a recap of our activities on all social media handles.

Open access is a valuable tool for showcasing your expertise and sharing information with a wide audience. At Iowa State University, many faculty and staff have shared their work openly with support from the University library. During this panel presentation, researchers will bring their experiences working with the library to expand the impact of their work, and reflect on why and how they chose to share.

Attendees will leave this event with examples of how they can effectively utilize library services to build relationships across and beyond campus by making their work open.

How can publicly funded research projects secure their data in the long term while maintaining legal compliance, transparency and guaranteeing the FAIRness of their data? In our online presentation, we share practical experiences from our collaboration with humanities projects. Our focus is on facilitating the sharing and reuse of data by providing clear legal information for the users of our platform.

But the reality is often complex: many cultural institutions do not make their archives publicly available or do not allow the data to be reused in its entirety. How could a project reuse material that they are not allowed to share publicly?

In addition, new technologies such as AI raise questions – and sometimes fears. What influence can it have on the open access mentality?

Join us as we navigate the challenges of data management in our role as a long-term archive!

Speakers : Nora Olivia Ammann, Noémi Villars-Amberg

Please join the Penn State University Libraries for a panel discussion with three thought leaders in the field:

Dr. Samuel Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library, one of the organizers of the Radical Open Access Collective, and author of the forthcoming book Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care and the Commons.

Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Directory of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and author of the widely acclaimed book Data Cartels.

Peter Suber, author of the seminal monograph Open Access and a leading theorist of the Open Access movement.

The theme of the panel discussion is “We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone.” Whether you’re a faculty member, a researcher, an independent scholar, a student, a librarian or library worker, or someone working in the publishing industry, we hope you’ll join us for this event, which is free and open to the public.

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.