Open Access Week

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 research funders' public access policies and how those changes interact with institutional and publisher policies. Registration is required, but all are welcome.

Tuesday 10/21

12:00pm-5:00pm EDT

"SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference" hosted by San Jose State University King Library

"The SJSU King Library OA25 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year's biennial Open Access Conference: Defend Research, Defend Open Access. Topics may include but are not limited to: Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers; Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research; Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content; Preservation of open content; Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices; Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment; Case studies of Open Access initiatives; Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments."

3:00pm-4:00pm EDT

"Knowledge is Power: Who Owns It, Who Shares It, and Why Libraries Matter" hosted by UAB Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication

"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."

Thursday 10/24

11:00am-12:30pm EDT

"We are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone" hosted by Penn State Libraries

"Please join us on Thursday, October 23rd, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT for this year's Open Access Week event, 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.' So 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."