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This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality.
Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that host experts in open scholarship, and highlight open access efforts and supports at UBC. Explore sessions on creating, finding, using, and sharing open educational resources (as well as funding opportunities for doing so), along with helpful sessions on copyright and licensing, and podcasting. Open UBC has also highlighted some great events hosted by other institutions, including The University of Northern Iowa and Penn State University Libraries.
Whether you can attend this year’s events or not, you can explore a selection of prior presentations from Open Access Week at UBC Library in cIRcle. You may also consider signing up for the UBC Open Newsletter, to keep up with upcoming event offerings and other updates related to open access efforts at UBC.
Additionally, UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office publishes numerous reports about their efforts leading and supporting efforts in open access, open scholarship, and open education. Read the latest Open Access Article Publishing at UBC Annual Report, which provides insight into recent open access publishing trends by UBC affiliated authors, as well as some of UBC’s financial conditions for enabling and supporting open access publishing efforts. The latest UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report highlights UBC Library’s impact across both campuses on open educational practices.
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Learn more about open access and available supports from UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office