Spotlighting Open Access Week 2025

Spotlighting Open Access Week 2025

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October 16, 2025
images of open locks and logo for International Open Access Week

Why Open Access Week

This year, we join institutions across the US and worldwide to spotlight open access publishing opportunities and challenges, with a special focus around the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” Open access publishing is a critical, yet often complicated and expensive, aspect of scholarly publishing, and one we're deeply committed to helping you navigate. As part of our goal to significantly expand and promote public access to Dartmouth scholarship we want to:

  • demystify open access publishing
  • demonstrate its benefits and long-term impacts
  • create new publishing pathways for Dartmouth authors
  • support researchers at all levels to navigate the ever-shifting scholarly publishing landscape. 

Whether it's advocating for researcher- and university-led publishing infrastructures, signing publisher agreements that provide discounts on publishing fees, or stewarding the Dartmouth Digital Commons, we strive to make your research accessible to audiences worldwide. 

Scholarly publishing is transforming at a rapid pace. Dartmouth Libraries' experts can be your trusted partners in navigating the new landscape.

Daniel Chamberlain, Associate Dean of Libraries, Research & Digital Strategies

What's On 

From October 20, we welcome you to take part in a series of engaging events and drop-in sessions that will help you explore the many facets of scholarly publishing and help demystify open and public access publishing. From interactive and creative activities for students to drop-in sessions with scholarly publishing and communication experts, there's much to do and learn. In particular, we invite you to join us as we tune into two special webinars hosted by colleagues at Harvard University and Indiana University.

“Public Access in Transition: Nelson Memo, Federal Licensing, and the Future of Open Scholarship” hosted by Harvard University Libraries, is a panel discussion featuring leading experts in open scholarship policy and infrastructure. Join us on October 21 at 11am in Baker 219 as we listen to Heather Joseph (SPARC), Dave Hansen (Authors Alliance), and Peter Suber (Harvard Library and Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society) delve into questions including:

  • What is the status of policy development across agencies?
  • What will compliance look like in practice?
  • How should faculty, researchers, and institutions position themselves to meet new requirements?
  • How have publishers responded to these new policies?
photo of Juan Pablo Alperin courtesy SFU

The webinar “Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing” on October 24 at 12:30pm in Baker 219, features Juan Pablo Alperin from Simon Fraser University. Juan will lead a presentation discussing how the growth of researcher- and institution-led open access journal publications is 

  • challenging publishing models
  • reshaping access to knowledge
  • and redefining the global scholarly communication landscape. 

It concludes with a call to strengthen and sustain scholar-led publishing infrastructures so access to knowledge is secured by the academic community itself, not by corporate platforms. Thanks to Indiana University Libraries for hosting.

Personalized Support

Our Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing team is available to help you understand the possibilities for publishing your research and providing platforms for distributing your scholarship. This expert team offers comprehensive ongoing support for anyone preparing to publish their research. They can support you in developing a better understanding of open access and Creative Commons licenses, copyright, citation best practices, choosing a journal, and more.

 

 

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