Every year in October academic organizations, scholars, libraries, research institutions across the world celebrate the Open Access Week. This is an important opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.
Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations around the world, and its organization is led by a global advisory committee. The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.
Open Access Week 2024: Community over Commercialisation
This year’s theme continues the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.
Learn more about the Open Access Week here.
Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications by 
E-Science : Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration. by 
The Open Access (OA) movement seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined as 'open access' when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it (anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it for educational purposes or in any other way within the legal agreements). OA is a rapidly evolving model for scholarly communication, with important for the researchers advantages (increased visibility, citations, peer sharing, reuse of research results), where an extra effort on the aspect of quality must be paid.
Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research by 
Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning by 
The Complete Guide to Institutional Repositories by Open Access Books, by ACRL
