Get ready for #OAWeek 2025!
Download graphics & logos, available in several languages: https://www.openaccessweek.org/resources.
Submit your events so we can share widely on our public calendar: https://www.openaccessweek.org/submit-event.

We want to know what you're planning for #OAWeek! Please submit your events so we can add them to our calendar & help build excitement for #OpenAccess Week 2025! https://www.openaccessweek.org/submit-event

How can communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce? The theme of #OAWeek 2025 explores whose voices are recognized & valued in research & education. Click here to download free graphics in several languages to promote your #OpenAccess events. https://www.openaccessweek.org/resources

Share your #OAWeek plans with the broader community! Click here to add your event to the public calendar and global map. https://www.openaccessweek.org/submit-event

The #OAWeek 2025 theme, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" challenges us to reflect on who has access to education & research, how knowledge is created & shared, where it has come from & whose voices are recognized. More on the SPARC website here: https://sparcopen.org/news/2025/theme-for-open-access-week-2025-asks-who-owns-our-knowledge/. Look up free resources on the #OAWeek website here: https://www.openaccessweek.org/

"Qui contrôle nos connaissances ?" est le thème de la Semaine International du Libre Accès 2025 , 20-26 oct. 2025
“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 20-26)
https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme
#openaccess #openscience #openknowledge #OAWeek #openaccessweek #oaweek2025

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme

We are continually adding to our #OAWeek series on organizations working to advance #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Now with more than 26 profiles in the collection (the latest on @copim click here to learn more: https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles
https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/the-impact-of-embracing-community-over-commercialization/

Want to read about amazing organizations working in the open space? We featured several during #OAWeek https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles, describing how leaders they are embracing community over commercialization. The latest is on the @copim. More here: https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles/copim

ICYMI...We pulled together some of the best from #OAWeek 2024. Explore links to events, papers & activities around the world galvanizing action to address "Community over Commercialization." Thanks to all!

See our wrap-up here: https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/community-over-commercialization-theme-galvanizes-action-for-second-year/

Aujourd'hui jusqu'à 15h sur le site Descartes de l'École normale supérieure de Lyon , atelier #HAL et #openaccess. Venez avec vos questions, même pour quelques minutes, on essayera d'y répondre !
Bâtiment D4, salle 024.
#openscience #ENSLyon #SHS #OAWeek2024 #OAWeek

Highlights from #OAWeek 2024 are available now. We gathered noteworthy events, papers & activities with links. See how "Community over Commercialization" was celebrated around the world!
https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/community-over-commercialization-theme-galvanizes-action-for-second-year/

We celebrate the work of @Redalyc - providing a non-commercial infrastructure to advance Diamond #OpenAccess, based on the paradigm of science as a public good. See our #OAWeek profile:
https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles/redalyc

Community is at the heart of PKP!

In this post, check out 2 @sparc theme profiles, 3 #OAWeek events, 3 major #CoalitionPublica updates, 5 resources + 6 webinars for taking control of your publishing, 8 opportunities and 10 articles centering community!

Learn what community means to PKP and how it demonstrates its commitments:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2024/10/23/pkp-celebrates-open-access-week/

What better way to round off your #OAWeek than to give your input to @unesco's Consultation on #DiamondOpenAccess!

More input is needed from globally diverse regions in order to make this future truly representative of the needs of researchers and scholars beyond the "Global North".

Please share this post with everyone you know who cares about diversity and global representation in #DiamondOA.

Survey (multiple language options, 15 - 25 minutes): https://surveys.unesco.org/696125?lang=en

"Diamond Open Access isn't just a business model—it's about scholarly communities owning and controlling their publishing future".

On the occasion of the #OAWeek,
@johanrooryck reflects on the role of @cOAlitionS_OA in advancing #DiamondOA.

Read more: https://coalition-s.org/blog/reflections-on-diamond-open-access-and-coalition-s/

Happy #OAWeek! We hope you've had a good one!

Catch up with our interviews with Copim community members: https://buff.ly/48l4DfL

And our thoughts on the meaning of 'community-led': https://buff.ly/4femmbe

Rounding off our #OAWeek interviews, in the FINAL instalment we speak to Miranda Barnes, who works on Copim's archiving and preservation team!

Read her thoughts on the relevance of 'community over commercialisation' for her work:

https://buff.ly/3NDqPbp

Das Poster "Informationsbudget: Navigation auf den Wegen zur #OpenAccess Transformation" zeigt, wie wir in unseren Projekten @openaccessnetwork (BMBF) und @Transform2Open (DFG) wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen beim Thema #Informationsbudget unterstützen.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11617334
Gemeinsam werden praxisnahe Workshops und ein modulares Modell angeboten um den Weg zur Open-Access-Transformation effektiv und nachhaltig zu gestalten!
#OAweek #CommunityOverCommercialization (lmf)

It's #OAWeek: Community over Commercialization!
https://www.openaccessweek.org/