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Open Access Week is October 20^th  – 26^th, 2025, this year themed “Who owns our knowledge?”. Read more in the Scholarly Communications LibGuide, or reach out to Kate Wing, Electronic Resources and Scholarly Communication Librarian.

Bowdoin Library has a number of resources available to support researchers and scholars at Bowdoin who are interested in publishing Open Access, making their research output freely available to researchers and scholars worldwide.

Authors can also avoid Article Processing Charges (APCs), a fee to have their articles published in journals. Bowdoin supports faculty publishing by negotiating transformative agreements with certain publishers. When faculty publish with Cambridge University Press, The Royal Society, Institute of Physics, De Gruyter Brill, AIP Publishing, and ACS Publications, the APC is waived.

“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 on how knowledge is created and shared, where it has come from, and whose voices are recognized and valued.

Read more on openaccessweek.org