Open Access Week

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Keynote: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing
(2025-10-24)
IU's Open Access Week 2025 Keynote by Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University; Public Knowledge Project) What would happen if Google Scholar were to vanish tomorrow? For many researchers, it has become the default gateway to academic literature, yet its dominance also exposes vulnerabilities in how knowledge is discovered and accessed. This presentation will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, is challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication. It concludes with a call to strengthen and sustain scholar-led publishing infrastructures—so that access to knowledge is secured by the academic community itself, not left at the mercy of corporate platforms.
Panel: The Case for University-Based Publishing--Models, Missions, and Momentum
(2025-10-23)
An Open Access Week 2025 event. As commercial scholarly publishing consolidates and costs continue to rise, universities are working to regain control over how scholarship is disseminated, maintained, and acquired. This panel will examine the promise and challenges of university-based publishing—from university presses to library publishing programs and beyond. Panelists will discuss: How university-based publishing differs from commercial models, and why this distinction matters for equity, sustainability, and the future of scholarship University presses today: challenges, opportunities, initiatives, and strategies for thriving What is library publishing, why libraries publish, and how library publishing advances access and equity Funding models and sustainability for university-based publishing How faculty, libraries, universities, and university presses can collaborate to build more equitable, community-owned scholarly communication systems Panelists: Heather Akou (Professor, Fashion Design, IU) Annie Martin (Editorial Director, IU Press) Kate McCready (Program Director for Open Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance) Mary Rose Muccie (Executive Director, Temple University Press, and Scholarly Communications Officer, Temple University Libraries) Solimar Otero (Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Professor, Gender Studies, and Director, Latino Studies, IU) Moderator: Karen Stoll Farrell (Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing, IU Libraries)
Panel: Who Owns Our Knowledge Infrastructures? Emerging Scholarly Publishing Platforms and Outputs
(2025-10-22)
Scholarly publishing is changing. New platforms and models—from modular “micropublications” to community-owned infrastructure—are challenging traditional modes of publication and raising new questions about ownership, equity, and sustainability. This panel brings together leading scholars and publishing technologists to share how these changes might transform research creation, dissemination, and evaluation. Panelists • Dr. Alexandra Freeman (she/her), Director of Octopus • Adam Hyde, Founder and Principal Architect, Coko • Jennifer Trueblood (she/her), Ruth N. Halls Professor of Cognitive Science and Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Director, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University
Open and Accessible: Towards New Models for Scientific Publishing
(2023-10-27) Keilholz, Shella
Scientific publication has evolved substantially in response to the digital revolution, with print journal subscriptions replaced by subscriptions to online content. In recent years, many journals have switched to the “open access” model, where online content is freely available to all. Open access is a welcome step toward open and accessible science, but in practice, most journals have simply shifted the cost burden from institutions to individual labs who contribute the science. Challenges and new models of scientific publishing will be discussed using Imaging Neuroscience as an example of one journal’s transition from subscription to open access to nonprofit publishing.
Taking and Giving Back? Open Access, Generative AI, and the Transformation of Scholarly Communication
(2023-10-27) Wang, Lucy Lu
Generative AI systems trained on decades of open access, digitized scholarly publications and other human-written texts can now produce non-copyrightable(?), (mostly) high-quality, and (sometimes) trustworthy text, images, and media at scale. In the context of scholarly communication, these AI systems can be trained to perform useful tasks such as quickly summarizing research findings, generating visual diagrams of scientific content, and simplifying technical jargon. Scholarly communication will undergo a major transformation with the emergence of these model capabilities. On the plus side, AI has the potential to help tailor language, format, tone, and examples to make research more accessible, understandable, engaging, and useful for different audiences. However, its use also raises questions about credit and attribution, informational provenance, the responsibilities of authorship, control over science communication, and more. This talk will discuss how open access scholarly publishing has helped power the rise of the current generation of AI systems (especially large language models), some ways that AI is primed to change/has already changed scholarly publishing, and how the OA community might work with these models to improve scholarly communication, for example, by introducing different and more flexible forms of science communication artifacts, incorporating human feedback in the generative process, or mitigating the production of false/misleading information.
Open Access Week Symposium 2022
(2022-10-28) Chambliss, Melanie; Joy, Eileen Fradenburg; Swan, Quito; Michelson, Ethan; Colella, Alexa; Dunham, Gary; Abegunde, Maria Eliza Hamilton; Tavernier, Willa; Holliday, DeLoice
"The Scholarly Communications Department welcomes you to join us in-person or virtually on Friday, October 28 for a full-day Open Access symposium and reception hosted at Wells Library. We will highlight IU authors’ experiences with publishing open access, showcase various models of funding open access publications, and frankly discuss challenges and limitations. We will also take the opportunity to discuss the implications of the recent “Nelson Memo,” which has wide-reaching implications for all research and publications supported by federal grant agencies."

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