Reading Time: 3 minutesOpen Access Week is always held in October and the 2026 theme is “The Cost of Knowledge.” Open Access is described as the “free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” While the readers of Open Access research benefit from the cost being free, for the creators, there are costs associated with research.
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Open Access Week 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Librarians and researchers around the globe take time to discuss the impact open access (OA) has had over the last few decades, identify recent trends in OA, and tackle new issues and problems in open access.
Open Access Week 2023: Dr. Lawrence’s Translated Texts
Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest post by Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian As it celebrates its fifteenth year, SPARC’s International Open Access Week aims to “raise awareness” about the “importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.” To celebrate, the team behind USF Library’s …Continue Reading