This year's theme for Open Access Week is "Open for Climate Justice.”
The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek. Please help us spread the word!
From the 2022 Open Access Week Advisory Committee:
“Open for Climate Justice” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 24-30).
Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement that the climate crisis has far-reaching effects, and the impacts are “not be[ing] borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations,” as the UN notes. These power imbalances also affect communities’ abilities to produce, disseminate, and use knowledge around the climate crisis. Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them.
This year’s focus on Climate Justice seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries.
International Open Access Week is a time to coordinate across communities to make openness the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work. Selected by the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, this year’s theme is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around how open enables climate justice. Open Access Week 2022 will be held from October 24th through the 30th; however, anyone is encouraged to host discussions and take action around “Open for Climate Justice” whenever is most suitable during the year and to adapt the theme and activities to their local context.
For more information on activities related to Open Access Week 2022, check out the following resources:
Open Access Week
Organized by SPARC, the above link is the official website for Open Access Week.
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
A global coalition promoting Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education, or making all research available to all.
Creative Commons
An organization dedicated to accessible public knowledge, offering free license and copyright options for all works created by an individual or organization.
Bronco Scholar
Cal Poly Pomona University Library's very own institutional repository, a source of all scholarship created by CPP students, staff, and faculty.
Cal Poly Pomona's Affordable Learning Initiative (ALI)
Learn more about Cal Poly Pomona's efforts in making access to textbooks and other academic resources more affordable and accessible.
California State University's Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$)
Learn more about the CSU initiative advocating for more affordable and accessible resources in order to promote the success of all students.
USC Libraries Open Access Resource Guide
Learn more Open Access and Open Educational Resources from this USC created guide.
UMN-Duluth Open Access Resource Guide
Learn more Open Access and Open Educational Resources from this UMN-Duluth created guide.
SHERPA/RoMEO
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
SHERPA/Juliet
Sherpa Juliet is a searchable database and single focal point of up-to-date information concerning funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving.