Get ready for International Open Access Week 2025!

Are you ready for International Open Access Week 2025?

This year, Open Access Week will be from October 20th-27th, 2025.

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This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce. Here are some of the topics we want our readers to think about as we head into the week full of discussions and interactions:

Responsible use of AI and Tech

• Should AI models that are trained on open research remain open?
• The importance of transparent training data in preventing bias
• Building reproducible AI research workflows
• Should authors be able to opt-in or opt-out of AI training datasets?
• Supporting community-led AI projects in low-resource regions
• Making research discoverable through AI-powered search while protecting privacy
• Ensuring AI does not create new “knowledge silos”
• Who benefits financially from AI trained on open research?

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 Policy & Advocacy

• Understanding open access mandates
• Advocating for institutional open access policies
• The role of libraries in advancing open knowledge

 Rethinking impact and value

• Moving beyond journal impact factors to community impact

Equity & Inclusion in Open Access

• Elevating marginalized voices through open access
• Crowdsourced research projects and citizen science
• Preprints and open peer review

Selected Reading

Here are some recent Editage Insights articles we have curated for you:

In this article, we give you some tips on how to best format your journal article for open access.

Here is a discussion from last year’s open access week about whether a thesis should be open access (or not).

This infographic has some of our most commonly asked questions and answers around open access.