Open Access Week boosts awareness of open scholarship in IU Libraries
By Maggie McDonald
International Open Access Week is an annual opportunity for academics and researchers to learn and raise awareness about equitable knowledge sharing and “open access” (OA): the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as needed.
IU Libraries commemorated Open Access Week from October 23 to October 29, 2023, with a series of events and activities on the Bloomington campus and online.
This year’s theme was “Community over Commercialization”, addressing disseminating scholarship to benefit the public and academics over commercial interests and preventing knowledge and information from being commercialized so it can be accessed by all rather than a wealthy few.
Keynotes were delivered by Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School and a Visiting Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, and Shella Keilholz, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University and Program Director for the 9.4 T MRI. Other events focused on ORCiD identifiers for researchers and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s 2022 memorandum.
Open Access Week 2023 was co-sponsored by IUB Libraries, the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, the Department of Information & Library Science, and the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.