International Open Access Week is an annual global initiative established by SPARC that promotes open access advocacy and the dissemination of academic content focused on open access and related topics. It is held in many parts of the world during the last week of October.
2025
In 2025, the slogan for Open Access Week, which this year is being celebrated worldwide from 20 to 26 October, is "Who Owns Our Knowledge?
As in previous years, the Library and Documentation Service held the Open Science 2025 Conference, which aims to raise awareness of the actions being carried out at the UV to achieve the objectives proposed by open science.
At the conference, presented by Cristina Tomás (head of the Library and Documentation Service),Carlos Hermenegildo, Vice-Rector for Research at the UV, presented the Open Science Policy (Spanish text), approved by the Governing Council on 7 October. Other speakers also took part, including Beatriz Climent, Coordinator of the Open Science Commission; Joel González, the Rector's Delegate for Strategic Research Actions; and Juan Pérez, editor of the UV Publications Service.
Presentations:
- Presentation of the UV Open Science Policy – Carlos Hermenegildo
- Action Plan: Development of the UV Open Science Policy – Beatriz Climent
- UV Scientific Production Portal – Joel González Cabrera
- Open monographs and their evaluation – Juan Pérez Moreno
2024
In 2024, the motto of Open Access Week, which is celebrated worldwide from 21 to 26 October, remains ‘Community over Commercialization’.
The Libraries and Documentation Service, as on previous occasions, held the Jornada sobre Ciència Oberta 2024, where the actions being carried out at the UV to achieve the objectives proposed by open science were presented.
Presentations:
- Update of the institutional repository RODERIC
- Open data
- Túria, portal web for journals edited by the University of Valencia
- Identify and highlight the value of diamond journals
2023
With the motto " Community over Commercialization ", the research institutions celebrated Open Access Week 2023. At the UV, the Library and Documentation Service offered a Conference on Open Science in order to highlight the different actions being taken to term in favor of Open Science. This Conference also served as a framework to present the Portal de Producció Científica UV .
Here you can consult the presentations and the details of the initiatives:
- Utilitats del Portal de Producció Científica
- La comunitat i l’accés obert. Entrevistes amb el personal investigador
- Bones pràctiques a Ciències de la Salut: la via diamant i la prevenció de fraus editorials
- Recursos per la publicació OA: Acords Transformatius i panel de disponibilitat d’APC
