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!
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The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
Oct 20 2026 | 3 - 4:30pm
DOACH and CoDOA are two new initiatives that support Diamond Open Access in Switzerland. DOACH is the Swiss National Capacity Center offering information and resources for a variety of DOA practitioners; CoDOA offers Swiss academic libraries a consortial funding pathway to financially support DOA journals that are embedded in Swiss research communities.
For this online launch event, we are delighted to welcome Johan Rooryck (@johanrooryck ) from the European Diamond Cap…
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
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…
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
The panel discussion is one among different events organised by KIT Library during the International Open Access Week (19–25 October 2026).
Considering that this year’s theme is “The Cost of Knowledge,” the planned event will give this topic a positive spin by discussing the importance of various community-developed and community-governed services available to institutional publishers, and specifically to university publishers, at little or no cost.
The programme is inspired by various free kn…
The National Library of Sweden is marking International Open Access Week (2026 theme: the Cost of Knowledge) with a webinar on the costs and funding of diamond open access, on 22 October, 3:00-4:00 pm.
Programme:
Sofie Wennström @SofieW (Stockholm University and the Swedish node for diamond open access) presents the report on the current status and future prospects of diamond open access in Sweden, based on a 2025 survey of Swedish scholarly journals.
Karolina Andersdotter (National Library o…
The Danish Open Access Network is inviting everyone to its Danish Open Access Week 2026 .
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
SofieW
13 October 2026 17:11
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The National Library of Sweden hosts an OA Week-related event with the title "Diamond fever! Visible and invisible costs in diamond open access " on Oct 22nd between 15:00–16:00 CEST
The National Library of Sweden celebrates International Open Access Week with a webinar on 22 October, from 3:00 to 4:00 pm, about the costs and funding of diamond open access. The theme of International Open Access Week 2026 is t he Cost of...
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