Open Access Week: Open Access Week 2023
Open Access Week is an annual international event that strives to educate researchers at all levels about Open Access (OA), showcasing OA tools and resources.
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Open Access Week 2023 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.
Open Access Week is October 23-29, 2023.
Online events
- Indiana University Bloomington LibrariesOctober 27, 1:00-2:00 pm— Taking and Giving Back? Open Access, Generative AI, and the Transformation of Scholarly Communication, with Lucy Lu Wang.
October 27, 2:25-3:15 pm— Open and Accessible: Towards New Models for Scientific Publishing, with Shella Keilholz - Kennesaw State University: Open Access WeekKennesaw State University hosts a robust set of presentations during Open Access Week 2023 related to the following tracks:
Building and Sustaining Open Communities, Community over Commercialization, Open Educational and Research Practices, and Open Legalities. - MIT Libraries: Imaging Neuroscience & community over commercialization: An OA week panelJoin MIT Libraries and the MIT Press for an online panel with the editor of Imaging Neuroscience, a new open access journal that launched after editorial teams from two Elsevier journals left the publisher over disputes around the high cost for authors.
We’ll explore some of the benefits and challenges of moving a journal from a large, commercial publisher to a non-profit university press, and how the new journal better prioritizes the interests of this community.
Speakers:
Stephen Smith, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford and editor-in-chief of Imaging Neuroscience
Nick Lindsay, journals and open access director at MIT Press
Moderated by Katharine Dunn, scholarly communications librarian at MIT - University of Colorado Boulder LibrariesAdvancing Community-Led Open Infrastructure: Open Access Week Panel Discussion
A panel of scholars representing both local and global perspectives will engage in a lively conversation about the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems, and the costs of entrenching publicly-funded research activities in profit-seeking business models.
Panelists:
Dr. Janneke Adema, associate professor, Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University
Dr. Élika Ortega, assistant professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Dr. Danny Kingsley, visiting fellow, Australian National University
Dr. Ayesha Khan, clinical microbiology fellow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Yale Library: Open Access Week Keynote Session featuring Peter SuberOctober 25, 2023 at 1:00 PM ET—
The Digital Humanities Lab and the Scholarly Communication and Information Policy unit at Yale Library invite you to our Open Access Week Keynote Session. Join Sandra Aya Enimil, Program Director, Scholarly Communication & Information Policy, and Lindsay Barnett, Scholarly Communication Librarian, for a brief interactive presentation on Open Access and current library initiatives. Stay for a fireside chat on the current landscape of Open Access and academic publishing with Peter Suber, Senior Advisor for Open Access and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Daniel Dollar, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, Yale Library. After the presentation and conversation, there will be further discussion and Q&A.