Open Access Week

History

Open Access Week has its roots in the National Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States by Students for Free Culture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global. In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23. In 2010, it took place from October 18–24. From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year.

Themes

In the early years, organisations celebrating Open Access Week set their own themes. Since 2012, an 'official' theme was established and received special attention at the corresponding kick-off events held at the World Bank.

• 2012: "Set the default to open access"
• 2013: "Redefining impact"
• 2014: "Generation Open"
• 2015: "Open for Collaboration"
• 2016: "Open in Action"
• 2017: "Open In Order To"
• 2018: "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"
• 2019: "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"
• 2020: "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion"
• 2021: “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”
• 2022: "Open for Climate Justice"
• 2023: "Community over Commercialisation"
• 2024: "Community over Commercialisation"
• 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"

Events

Each year's Open Access Week events are recorded in the Open Access Directory and the Open Access Week website.

References

References

1. (26 October 2011). "Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access". The Royal Society.
2. [http://www.library.arizona.edu/news/entries/view/2634 The Future of Data: Open Access and Reproducibility] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140702210003/http://www.library.arizona.edu/news/entries/view/2634 WebCite])
3. [http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/02/02/announcing-the-national-day-of-action-for-open-access-feb-15/ Announcing the National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-01-15 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130115073533/http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/02/02/announcing-the-national-day-of-action-for-open-access-feb-15/ WebCite]))
4. [http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/first-open-access-day-be-held-october-14-2008 First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008] {{Webarchive. link. (March 4, 2016 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110917070251/http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0828.shtml WebCite]).)
5. (5 March 2009). "Open Access Week declared for 2009". SPARC.
6. [http://www.sparc.arl.org/news-media/news/10-0428 Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110828163750/http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0428.shtml Webcite]).
7. (17 December 2010). "Open Access Week 2011 Dates announced". Open Access Week.
8. (October 23, 2013). "Open Access Week 2012". Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).
9. (October 18, 2013). "Redefining Impact Through Open Access". World Bank.
10. (July 15, 2014). "SPARC and the World Bank to co-host kickoff event for 2014 International Open Access Week". International Open Access Week.
11. (March 4, 2015). "Theme of 2015 Open Access Week to be "Open for Collaboration"".
12. (May 12, 2016). "Theme of 2016 International Open Access Week to be "Open in Action"".
13. "Theme of 2017 International Open Access Week to be "Open in order to…"".
14. "Theme of 2018 International Open Access Week To Be "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"".
15. "Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"".
16. Shockey, Nick. (31 August 2020). "Theme of 2020 Open Access Week to be Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion".
17. "International Open Access Week 2021".
18. (August 12, 2022). "International Open Access Week 2022 Theme". International Open Access Week.
19. (April 27, 2023). "Theme for Open Access Week 2023".
20. "Theme for Open Access Week 2024 Continues Call to Put “Community over Commercialization”".
21. "Theme for Open Access Week 2025 Asks “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”".
22. "Events". [[Simmons School of Library and Information Science]].
23. "Upcoming events". Open Access Week.