Open Access Week is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in as well as guests from local and global community. All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.
Who owns our knowledge? Rethinking Publishing in a Scholar-Led World
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Location: Online
The University of Northern Iowa hosts this presentation discussing how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published by universities from around the world, is challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication.
Speaker
- Juan Pablo Alperin is the Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, and the Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Alperin is an established researcher of scholarly communications, known for bringing evidence-based perspectives to pragmatic solutions in support of open access and open science. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed publications and delivered countless presentations on related topics. He serves on the boards and steering committees of various organizations, including the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and OpenAlex. His work focuses on making scholarly communication more equitable, inclusive, and publicly engaged, particularly across Latin America and the Global South.
We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 8:00am – 9:30am
Location: Online
Join Penn State University Libraries for the Open Access Week panel: We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone. This free, public event welcomes faculty, researchers, independent scholars, students, librarians, library staff, and publishing professionals.
Speaker
- Dr. Samuel Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library, one of the organizers of the Radical Open Access Collective, and author of the forthcoming book Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care and the Commons
- Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Directory of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and author of the widely acclaimed book Data Cartels
- Peter Suber, author of the seminal monograph Open Access and a leading theorist of the Open Access movement
Additional Open Access Week Sessions:
Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
Sharing & Discoverability – Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Online
OER Accessibility Drop-In
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
OER Fund General Information Session
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
Designing Interactive OER and Course Content with H5P
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Location: Online
Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Online
Writing Your OER Fund and TLEF Evaluation Section
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Online
Using the UBC Wiki to Enhance Student Learning Through Open Pedagogy
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Location: Online
Copyright and Licensing in Open Educational Resources
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Online
Participatory Publishing – Zine Assignments as Open Pedagogy Online
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online
Introduction to Podcasting
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online
