Research & Scholarly Publications Team

International Open Access Week (23-29th October 2023) - Community over Commercialization

International Open Access Week is almost here! Open Access Week is an annual event to celebrate the open sharing of knowledge. It is an opportunity to learn about the benefits of making research Open Access and encourage wider participation in helping to make scholarship and research openly and freely available.

This year's theme is "Community over Commercialization", encouraging us to think about what open scholarship practices benefits academic and public communities, and what do it. It is also offers an opportunity to celebrate our academic community, and highlight the research going on that is making an impact partially by being made openly available for those it will help.

Across the week, the Research and Scholarly Publications Team have arranged activities including Open Access Games, drop-ins to help set up profiles at our various Research Institutes, and a Research Café featuring a talk by core.ac.uk.

So come along and join us in celebrating our research community as well as our commitment to open knowledge sharing through Open Access. For more information, please contact oa.lib@coventry.ac.uk

Open Access Week Schedule

Mon 23rd - Open Access Games, Library Ground Floor, 10am-12pm
Come along to the Library to play some boardgames and learn a bit more about Open Access.​

​Tues 24th - Prep your Profiles 
Want help with your Pure and/or ORCiD profiles? Why not drop by one of our Prep your Profile sessions held at Research Institutes across the university. ​

10-11am – IPS, Innovation Village​
11am-12pm – eMob/IDSET, Technopark Bistro​
12-1pm – ICC, ICE Building​
2-4pm – FTC, Friars House (as part of the monthly drop-in)​

Tues 24rd - Open Access Escape Room, Library Teaching 2, 2-3pm
Join the Team in solving a range of puzzles and clues to unlock the research that has been locked away by "the villian". Learn about the benefits of Open Access and the routes that make research openly available to others. Sign up here.​

Wed 25th - Research Café ft. CORE Library Teaching 2, 10am-1pm​
Research cafés are a relaxed, open forum for postgraduate researchers from different disciplines to meet, share and discuss your research. The café will also be kicked off with a talk by Dr David Pride about CORE, an Open Access repository, and how it can help researchers.

​Thurs 26th - Prep your Profiles 
Want help with your Pure and/or ORCiD profiles? Why not drop by one of our Prep your Profile sessions held at Research Institutes across the university. ​

10-11am – IRBES, Jaguar Café​
11am-12pm – IGE, Whitefriars​
12-1pm – IHW, Richard Crossman​
2-3pm – CMM, AME Holbrooks​ [TBC]
3:30-4:30 – ISER, Ryton​

​Fri 27th - Open Access Games  Library Ground Floor, 10am-12pm
Come along to the Library to play some boardgames and learn a bit more about Open Access.​