International Open Access Week 2025
Oct 23, 2025 — 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Join us to celebrate Open Access Week at the University of Ottawa!
From October 20 - 26, 2025, we will engage with this year’s theme: “Who Owns our Knowledge?”
How can you participate?
This year’s International Open Access Week asks us to reflect on Who Owns our Knowledge—a question made especially urgent when we consider the systems that shape how research is created, shared, and valued. How can we collectively reclaim ownership of scholarly knowledge and support sustainable, open infrastructures that serve the public good?
Join us for a hybrid event with Dr. Stefanie Haustein and Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin!
Join us for a bilingual (French/English) hybrid event featuring Dr. Stefanie Haustein and Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin, who will examine the evolution of research assessment infrastructure and its implications for equity, transparency, and inclusivity in scholarly communication. Dr. Haustein will trace the history of closed bibliometric infrastructures and their lasting influence, while Dr. Alperin will outline the opportunities presented by open infrastructures—systems designed to be community-driven, transparent, and inclusive of diverse types of research outputs. Together, they will invite us to consider how today’s choices shape who is recognized, rewarded, and included in the scholarly record of tomorrow.
The session will take place in person in CRX C230 and online via Zoom.
Discover open access journals by uOttawa scholars
The Library provides hosting and publishing services for uOttawa-run journals on the Open Journal System (OJS). These community-based journals are a critical form of scholarship that amplify local voices within our community, such as those related to bilingualism, among others. Even better, they are hosted on OJS, a critical piece of open infrastructure. See the list of faculty and student-run journals supported by the Library.
Find out about last year's Open Access Week initiatives
Library's Open Scholarship Award
Stay tuned for an announcement about the Library's Open Scholarship Award, which will be re-launched during Open Access Week!
Speaker bios
Stefanie Haustein
Stefanie Haustein is associate professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa and co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab), an interdisciplinary group of researchers based in in Ottawa and Vancouver who analyze scholarship in the digital era. She is also affiliated researcher of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, the Centre for Journalology and the Life Research Institute at uOttawa and the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie at Université du Québec à Montréal. Dr. Haustein’s research focuses on scholarly communication, research evaluation and open science, including open access, research data sharing and reuse.
Speaker bios
Juan Pablo Alperin
Juan Pablo Alperin is the Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, and the Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Alperin is an established researcher of scholarly communications, known for bringing evidence-based perspectives to pragmatic solutions in support of open access and open science. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed publications and delivered countless presentations on related topics. He also serves on the boards and steering committees of international organizations, including the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and OpenAlex. His work focuses on making scholarly communication more equitable, inclusive, and publicly engaged, particularly across Latin America and the Global South.