Open Access Week - Join in!

This year’s International Open Access Week theme, “Community over Commercialization”, focuses on “approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community”. Considering community over commercialization involves asking the following questions:

• What are the consequences when a small number of corporations control knowledge production rather than researchers themselves?
• What are the hidden costs of business models that entrench extreme levels of profit while exacerbating inequity?
• When does the opaque collection and use of personal data by commercial platforms begin to undermine academic freedom?
• When and in what ways can commercialization align with the public interest?
• What community-governed infrastructures already exist that better serve the interests of the research community and the public (such as preprint servers, repositories, and open publishing platforms)?
• How can we shift the default toward using these community-minded options?

 Visit openaccessweek.org to find free online sessions related to the topics of scholarship, access, community and commercialization from institutions around the world. Here’s a sampling of talks that take place in timeframes that work with our time zone:

Community & the Commons: The ethics of crowd-sourced data reuse
Tuesday, October 22 2024 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Virtual (Zoom)  Register Here!

OA Week Keynote: Community and Digital Technologies to Enable Science as Public Good
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 Central Mountain Time (9:00 – 10:00 Pacific time)
Virtual (Zoom)  Register Here!

The 2024 WDS Webinar Series presents: Open Climate Knowledge & Data with Creative Commons
Oct 22, 2024 11:00 AM
Virtual (Zoom)  Register Here! 

How to Choose a License to Amplify the Impact of your Preprints - with arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and Creative Commons
Wednesday, October 23 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Virtual (Zoom)  Register Here! 

Publishing Open Access (for free!) as a STEM scholar
Thursday, October 24 2024 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Virtual  (Teams)  Register Here!

Publishing Open Access (for free!) as a Humanities Scholar
Wednesday, October 23 2024 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Virtual (Teams)  Register Here!

Fear of the Unknown: What REALLY happens when you make your work open?
Thursday, October 24 2024 12:20 PM – 2:00 PM
Virtual - Register Here!

Beware the Copyleft Trolls - Questionable Use of Open Licenses
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Virtual  - Register Here!

Sharing & Discoverability - Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual  - Register Here!