Open Access Week events at our Library

OA Week 2025, October 20-26

This year’s Open Access Week theme asks us to consider who can access research and education, how knowledge is produced, whose voices are heard and whose interests are served. The question, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites us to reflect on how communities can reclaim control over the knowledge they create – a timely question given the rapidly changing technological social environment of academic scholarship. Join the Library in celebrating open scholarship and be part of these important conversations.

Open to the Whole Picture: A self-guided Open Access Week experience

Visit the Bathurst and Wagga Wagga Libraries during Open Access Week (20–24 October) to experience Open to the Whole Picture, a self-guided experience that turns complex ideas about information access into something you can literally see and feel.

Move through a series of “lenses” representing different levels of access to research and information. Each stage invites you to view an artwork from a new perspective, from a closed view showing the impact of paywalls, through partial visibility, to full openness. This installation will help you to reflect on this year’s Open Access Week theme, “Who owns our knowledge?”

This interactive installation offers a hands-on way to explore how access to knowledge shapes learning, discovery, and equity. Open knowledge helps everyone see the bigger picture.

Register for an online event from Charles Sturt Library

Rights retention: You wrote it; who owns it?
Tuesday October 21, 2025, 1-1.45pm AEDT
Presented by Jane Bowland, Charles Sturt Library’s Copyright and Open Content Librarian
Rights retention empowers researchers to share their work openly without costly fees or restrictive paywalls. By retaining copyright, scholars can publish Author Accepted Manuscripts freely, promoting equitable and accessible scholarship.
Register with the Library

Navigating the Open Scholarship landscape: A practical guide
Wednesday October 22, 2025, 12-1:00pm AEDT
Organised by Charles Sturt Office of Research and presented by Anna du Chesne, Charles Sturt Library’s Senior Manager, Scholarly Communications & Research
This masterclass explores the pillars of Open Scholarship – Open Access, Open Data, and Open Educational Resources – offering practical insights and real-world examples to help researchers boost impact, meet funder requirements and share their work openly and ethically.
Join Office of Research’s “Seeing Like a Researcher” session

Events from other organisations

The Politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it?
Tuesday October 21, 2025, 10-11:30am AEDT
Presented by Open Access Australasia, this session brings together global voices to examine how governments shape and restrict access to knowledge – and how we can defend and reclaim it through open scholarship.
Register with OAA

Community ownership: Relation, reciprocity and responsibility
Wednesday October 22, 2025, 1-2:30pm AEDT
Presented by Open Access Australasia, this session explores collective and community-based approaches to knowledge ownership, highlighting how collaboration, cultural relevance and shared stewardship challenge traditional academic models of individual authorship, proprietary right and institutional control.
Register with OAA

Who owns our knowledge? A conversation
Thursday October 23, 2025, 10-11:00am AEDT.
Organised by Deakin University, this session brings together diverse voices from across Deakin to unpack the systems, structures and stories that shape how knowledge is created, shared and valued.
Register with Deakin

Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back
Thursday October 23, 2025, 1-2:30pm AEDT
Organised by Open Access Australasia, this session dares to ask what it means to “own” your research in 2025 – and how scholars can take back control, disrupt the system and make their work truly matter.
Register with OAA