Open Access Week 2024 (October 21-25) is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme is an extension of last year’s Community over Commercialization.
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science highlights the need to prioritize community over commercialization in its calls for the prevention of “inequitable extraction of profit from publicly funded scientific activities” and support for “non-commercial publishing models and collaborative publishing models with no article processing charges.” By focusing on these areas, we can achieve the original vision outlined when open access was first defined: “an old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good.”
This year Open Access Australasia is holding three events, bringing together experts to discuss how to widen our inclusivity, to showcase new approaches and initiatives, and to consider the impact emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are having on our knowledge systems and our communities.
Graphics for this year’s OA Week can be downloaded from the International Open Access Week website here.
Thanks to Zachary Kendal Open Access Australasia also has a set of graphics for this year that you are welcome to download and customise
If you are planning events at your institution, please contact us here and we will add them to this website.
Open Access Australasia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Open Access Australasia recognises the Turrbal, Yugara, Bedegal, Djabugay and Gimuy-walubara yidinji peoples the First Nations owners of the lands where we work.
We also pay our respects to all indigenous peoples wherever they are in the world including ngā iwi Māori, the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Open Access Australasia OA Week 2024 Committee:
Chair, Lyndall Holstein – Charles Sturt University, Mark Sutherland, Open Access Australasia, Garth Smith – Waikato University, Zachary Kendal – University of Melbourne, Lilly Ho, IFLA, Sophie Baker, Auckland University of Technology, Arthur Smith, CAUL, Elizabeth Lawrence, LaTrobe University, Natalie Pearce, LaTrobe University, Janet Catterall – Open Access Australasia.
