Home - IU Open Access Week 2025 - Library Research Guides at Indiana University

"Open Access Week is an annual opportunity to learn and raise awareness about Open Access (OA): free, immediate, online access to scholarly research and the right to use and re-use that research as needed.

2025 Themes

• 🌍 Official Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

How can scholarly and scientific communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce in the face of commercial interests, from for-profit publishers to artificial intelligence?

🎓 IU Bloomington Theme: Who Owns (Y)our Knowledge? The Importance of University Publishing

Spotlighting university-based publishing and how universities can support community-owned, equitable, and sustainable scholarly communication systems...."