Join the New York Institute of Technology Library for Open Access Week 2025 (October 20-24) as we explore this year's critical theme: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"

This week-long celebration examines how knowledge is created, shared, and controlled in our increasingly digital scholarly landscape. Through virtual workshops and panel discussions, we'll investigate open educational resources, explore powerful research tools, and consider the future of accessible scholarship.

Event Schedule

Monday, October 20 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual Sandbox: Semantic Encyclopedia
Discover how semantic encyclopedias help you understand concepts, summarize research, and find related information quickly.

Tuesday, October 21 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Who Owns Our Knowledge?
Explore open educational resources, open pedagogy, and inclusive access models in scholarly publishing.

Wednesday, October 22 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Virtual Sandbox: Explore OpenAlex
Navigate OpenAlex's index of over 250 million scholarly works from 250,000 sources, with enhanced humanities and social sciences coverage.

Thursday, October 23 | 11:00am - 12:30pm
"We are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone"
Penn State presents a panel discussion featuring Dr. Samuel Moore (Cambridge University) and other thought leaders in open access.

Friday, October 24 | 8:30am - 9:45am
Open Science and Citizen Science with #semanticClimate
Learn about corpus creation from open access repositories and semantic analysis tools.

Friday, October 24 | 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Introduction to #semanticClimate
Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, co-founder and professor at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, introduces this innovative project.

All events are virtual and open to the NYIT community. Contact us at askalibrarian@nyit.edu with any questions.