This year’s International Open Access Week theme asks ‘Who owns our knowledge?’, challenging us to reflect on not only who has access to the research we produce, but on how knowledge is created and shared. Significant progress has been made in some areas towards putting ‘Community over Commercialization’, the theme of OA Week in 2023 … Continue reading Open Access Week 2025: Supporting a community-aligned open research ecosystem
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Open Access Week 2025: Open Research Journeys at York
Ten members of the University of York research community share their thoughts and experiences in our latest post marking International Open Access Week Dr Dan Denis University of York web page | ORCID Dan Denis is a Lecturer in Psychology, having joined the University of York in 2022 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow. His primary … Continue reading Open Access Week 2025: Open Research Journeys at York
Open Access Week 2025: Pathways to sustainable scholarly publishing
In the first of a short series of posts marking International Open Access Week 2025 (20–26 October) we help publicise the University of York’s commitments towards sustainable scholarly publishing, and share a recap of an event hosted on behalf of the N8 Research Partnership this summer. Speaking directly to the theme of this year’s Open … Continue reading Open Access Week 2025: Pathways to sustainable scholarly publishing
Open Access Week 2023: Open access publishing – the growth of a community
Kate Petherbridge (Press Manager, White Rose University Press) on challenging the commercial focus in academic publishing Open access (OA) publishing is no longer new, though the OA landscape continues to evolve. There are now a range of publishers offering OA publishing routes. Numbers of new OA university presses continue to grow as more institutions see … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Open access publishing – the growth of a community
Open Access Week 2023: Every week is Open Access Week at York
Paula Schirrmacher (Research Intelligence Analyst) introduces a new dashboard which visualises the University’s open access publication practices. To monitor our progress in open access practices, the Open Research team combined internally collected data on open access routes and publicly available data on open access formats for University of York publications in this interactive dashboard. Cycle … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Every week is Open Access Week at York
Open Access Week 2023: Like an open book – an open access future beyond the journal article
Jon Cook (Open Research Project Officer) discusses the latest development in open access publishing for monographs and chapters Are you publishing your work open access? Until recently, the answer probably depended on the format of your research output. Open access for journal articles is extremely well established, having developed over the past thirty years to … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Like an open book – an open access future beyond the journal article