Open Access Week 2024
Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct 22-23 | 10 AM-12 PM | Merrill-Cazier Lobby
Questions? Please contact Rachel Blume, Research Strategy & Innovation | rachel.blume@usu.edu
Visit Our Table At the Library!
Come by the library table in the Merrill-Cazier lobby to learn about open access week, grab a snack, and make a button using open access images!
Open Access Week 2024 | October 21-27, 2024
What Is Open Access Week About?
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations around the world.
This Year's Theme: "Community Over Commercialization"
The theme of International Open Access Week for 2024 will continue with last year’s focus on “Community over Commercialization.” This theme contributed to a growing recognition of the need to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Taking the unprecedented step to build on this theme for a second year highlights the importance of this conversation and presents the opportunity to turn more of these deliberations into collective action.