Open Access Week 2024 (October 21-25) is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme is an extension of last year’s Community over Commercialization.
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science highlights the need to prioritize community over commercialization in its calls for the prevention of “inequitable extraction of profit from publicly funded scientific activities” and support for “non-commercial publishing models and collaborative publishing models with no article processing charges.” By focusing on these areas, we can achieve the original vision outlined when open access was first defined: “an old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good.”
This year Open Access Australasia is holding three events, bringing together experts to discuss how to widen our inclusivity, to showcase new approaches and initiatives, and to consider the impact emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are having on our knowledge systems and our communities.
Take a look at the videos we have created for Open Access Week 2024.
A new video will be available each day of OA Week.
Monday - Introduction to Open Access
Tuesday - Institutional and funder policies
Wednesday - Open textbooks
Thursday - Open data
Friday - Read & Publish agreements