The eJournals team invites you to participate in this year’s “Open Access Week,” which will take place from October 21 to 27, 2024.
The theme, "Community over Commercialization," continues from 2023, as organizers emphasize that prioritizing the conscious development of open science serves both the academic community and society at large.
In 2024, discussions focus on the integration of AI into commercial academic systems, the imposition of AI-driven solutions, and the growing role of corporations in shaping knowledge, which deepens inequalities in research and access to its results.
#OAWeek aims to highlight the importance of managing existing academic infrastructure (repositories, preprint servers, or open publishing platforms) in a way that is community-oriented rather than profit-driven.
Among the initiatives that align with the "Open Access Week" theme is the document prepared by the Digital Humanities Center of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) — the "Open Humanities Manifesto." It discusses the barriers to open scholarly communication caused by the reliance on commercial knowledge management entities for publication quality assessment and proposes support for publishers adopting open publishing models while regulating the dominance of international publishing platforms. You can find details and sign the Manifesto at: https://operas.pl/manifest-otwartej-humanistyki/.
See also: Open Access Week events around the world.