Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandates or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating from 1665 to 1941.
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Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandates or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating from 1665 to 1941.[1]
History
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Open Access Week has its roots in the National Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States by Students for Free Culture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.[3] In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global.[4] In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23.[5] In 2010, it took place from October 18–24.[6] From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year.[7]
Themes
[edit]In the early years, organisations celebrating Open Access Week set their own themes. Since 2012, an 'official' theme was established and received special attention at the corresponding kick-off events held at the World Bank.
- 2012: "Set the default to open access"[8]
- 2013: "Redefining impact"[9]
- 2014: "Generation Open"[10]
- 2015: "Open for Collaboration"[11]
- 2016: "Open in Action"[12]
- 2017: "Open In Order To"[13]
- 2018: "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"[14]
- 2019: "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"[15]
- 2020: "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion"[16]
- 2021: “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”[17]
- 2022: "Open for Climate Justice"[18]
- 2023: "Community over Commercialisation"[19]
- 2024: "Community over Commercialisation"[20]
- 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"[21]
Events
[edit]Each year's Open Access Week events are recorded in the Open Access Directory[22] and the Open Access Week website.[23]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access". The Royal Society. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2013.()
- ^ The Future of Data: Open Access and Reproducibility (WebCite)
- ^ Announcing the National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15 Archived 2013-01-15 at the Wayback Machine (WebCite)
- ^ First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (WebCite).
- ^ "Open Access Week declared for 2009". SPARC. 5 March 2009. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013. (WebCite)
- ^ Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24 (Webcite).
- ^ "Open Access Week 2011 Dates announced". Open Access Week. 17 December 2010. Archived from the original on 30 October 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2013.()
- ^ "Open Access Week 2012". Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). October 23, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-09-03.
- ^ "Redefining Impact Through Open Access". World Bank. October 18, 2013.
- ^ "SPARC and the World Bank to co-host kickoff event for 2014 International Open Access Week". International Open Access Week. July 15, 2014. Archived from the original on April 3, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ^ "Theme of 2015 Open Access Week to be "Open for Collaboration"". March 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ^ "Theme of 2016 International Open Access Week to be "Open in Action"". May 12, 2016.
- ^ "Theme of 2017 International Open Access Week to be "Open in order to…"". www.openaccessweek.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
- ^ "Theme of 2018 International Open Access Week To Be "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"". www.openaccessweek.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-09. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ Shockey, Nick. "Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"". Openaccessweek.org. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ Shockey, Nick (31 August 2020). "Theme of 2020 Open Access Week to be Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion". Open Access Week. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ "International Open Access Week 2021". UO Libraries. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ "International Open Access Week 2022 Theme". International Open Access Week. August 12, 2022.
- ^ "Theme for Open Access Week 2023". April 27, 2023. Archived from the original on January 9, 2025. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
- ^ "Theme for Open Access Week 2024 Continues Call to Put "Community over Commercialization"". International Open Access Week. Archived from the original on 2025-01-09. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "Theme for Open Access Week 2025 Asks "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"". International Open Access Week. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ "Events". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "Upcoming events". Open Access Week. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
External links
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- openaccessweek.org, a dedicated online platform for Open Access Week, sponsored by SPARC
- Peter Suber (ed.). "(OA Week)". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research
- International Open Access Week at the University of Porto (Presence at the OA International Site Archived 2014-01-04 at the Wayback Machine)
- Open Access Week in France
- Open Access Week 2013 at the University of Cape Town