Open Access Week is almost here!
This year’s theme is “The Cost of Knowledge” (October 19-25 202§).
Summary : We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits?
Some of this year’s events might be right up the diamond OA community’s alley, so we thought it’d be handy to gather them all in one place. Got an event to share? Edit this post and add it to the list!
Monday 19th October
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Tuesday 20th October
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
Oct 20 | 13:00-14:00 (CEST): Diamond OA books – shining new perspectives
This presentation will give an overview of recent developments in Diamond Open Access (DOA) book publishing by sharing some insights from ongoing EU-funded projects and other initiatives. More specifically the presentation will showcase how the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) supports the development of standards for DOA books an…
Wednesday 21th October
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
Oct 21 | 13:00-14:30 (CEST): AI & predatory publishing
Predatory publishing has evolved from obvious scams to AI-polished fraud, blending seamlessly into legitimate science. In this talk we’ll cover how AI fuels fake authorship, paper mills, and deepfake peer reviews, making deception harder to detect than ever. We’ll explore the real-world consequences: retracted yet circulating “zombie” articles, eroded p…
As in previous years, a number of Swiss universities and libraries have joined forces to put together a wide-ranging programme of online, hybrid and local events in different formats for the OA-Week in Switzerland this year.
“The cost of knowledge” – this year’s Open Access Week motto asks why publishing publicly funded research still costs so much, and who benefits.
Björn Brembs will argue that today’s journal system is structurally broken: a handful of publishers extract far more from public…
Thursday 22th October
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
Oct 22 | 10:00-11:00 (CEST): Diamond Open Access in the humanities: growth, but a precarious future?
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Professor, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern Denmark
Lars Boje Mortensen, Professor, Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark
Mikkel Gerken, Professor, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science…
Friday 23th October
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
Oct 23 | 13:00-14:30 (CEST): AAU OPEN: Two Years of University-Led Diamond Open Access Publishing
In this webinar, we will introduce AAU OPEN , Aalborg University’s Diamond Open Access publisher and competence unit for Open Access. The session focuses on our publishing activities and experiences as a university-led open access publisher. AAU OPEN provides free and open access to a broad range of research and…
Read more: https://www.openaccessweek.org