NWU 2024 Open Access Celebrations: 20 - 26 October 2025 (Under construction)
#OAWeek
Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 20-26). The 2025 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. It also challenges us to reflect on not only who has access to education and research but also on how knowledge is created and shared, where it has come from, and whose voices are recognised and valued. Read more about the theme here.
The 2025 Open Access Week theme builds on the conversations, events, and actions over the past two years that have focused on putting “Community over Commercialisation.” The profiles on this page highlight how organisations around the world are working to make research open by default and equitable by design.
Purpose of this colloquium:
International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week that promotes the benefits of open access and related topics to the academic research community and scholarship.
The event aims to foster discussions that explore how open access can empower communities, improve educational outcomes, and facilitate equitable access to information. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, we seek to generate actionable ideas that leverage open science and open data initiatives to benefit society. Through shared knowledge and collaboration, this event will underscore the importance of making research freely available and accessible, ultimately advocating for a more inclusive and community-focused approach to knowledge dissemination.
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NWU Library Initiatives
- Hosts and maintains the NWU Institutional Repository, which collects, preserves, and distributes NWU research material at no cost to the user.
- Boloka (NWU-IR) is the primary storage of all NWU Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).
- Dedicated librarians assist researchers with uploading their outputs to Boloka.
- Hosts and maintains Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source solution for managing and publishing scholarly journals online.
- The library provides a search platform for open-access accredited journals.
- Open Access - Transformative Agreements