In celebration of international open access week 2025, the University Library will deliver on-campus workshops and offer registration for global online sessions to create awareness of the Open Access.
Date & Time: Monday, Oct 20, 2025 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Cairo time
This webinar will showcase examples of non-commercial, scholar-led, and community-driven publishing models from around the world. Representatives from several initiatives will present how their platforms promote equitable access to knowledge, strengthen research communities, and reimagine traditional publishing systems.
Sponsor: International Science Council
Date & Time: Monday, Oct 20, 2025 - 4.00 PM - 5:30 PM - Cairo time
Who truly owns the knowledge we create? As open access grows, so do concerns about commercialization, AI exploitation, and inequitable participation. This webinar will explore how to design open access models that center community ownership, protect against extractive practices, and amplify marginalized voices. Panelists will share strategies for balancing openness with privacy and consent, ensuring a future where knowledge is not only free to access but also ethically and equitably shared.
Sponsor: University of South Alabama
Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct 20, 2025 - 8.00 PM - 9.00 PM - Cairo time
This talk will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, are challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication.
Sponsor: University of Northern Iowa
Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 - 10.00 PM - 11.00 PM - Cairo time
This session will cover how to get no-cost access versions of paywalled or inaccessible items like journal articles. We will talk about open access versions of articles. This could be especially useful for people doing interdisciplinary research or as information to pass on to students.
Sponsor: University of South Alabama
Zoom link: https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/97216582717
Date & Time: Tuesday October 21, 2025 at 9.00 pm - Cairo time
This virtual webinar will bring together researchers, librarians, publishers, policymakers, and funders to explore inclusive and sustainable Open Access (OA) models that advance equity in scholarly publishing—particularly in the Global South. Through interactive sessions, panel discussions, and tool demonstrations, the webinar will address key themes such as institutional OA policies, ethical publishing, capacity building, and collaborative approaches for driving equitable knowledge sharing.
Sponser: Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hNHSJYSvQ9KugF3A23iz4A
Date & Time: Wednesday October 22, 2025 - 3.00 AM - 4.00 AM - Cairo time
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) present researchers with the opportunity to enhance their capacity to conduct research. This webinar will present a basic introduction to some of the more common AI technologies that have become so prevalent in the modern world, then cover the rigour, ethics, integrity, and data ownership pitfalls to be wary of before discussing the potential open access implications at a time when the demand for knowledge as a resource is so indiscriminate.
Sponsor: University of Southern Queensland.
Date & Time: Wednesday October 22, 2025 at 3.30 PM - 6.30 PM - Cairo time
Circle U. will host the online event ‘Fast forward Open Science’, led by Université Paris Cité, as part of the International Open Access Week 2025. Experts in open access publishing, research data management, open source code and software, and open education will come together to share their perspectives, confront challenges, and explore solutions.
Sponsor: Circle U. & Université Paris Cité
Date & Time: Wednesday October 22, 2025 - 10.00 PM - 11.00 PM - Cairo time
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a free and open-source software solution for hosting academic journals, including support for submission handling and peer review. In this presentation, we will see how OJS can be used to manage a journal, as well as learn how it can be freely self-hosted or used in partnership with a host such as York Digital Libraries.
Sponsor: University of South Alabama
Zoom link: https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/91054391492
Date & Time: Thursday, October 23 2025, 4:00 PM - 4.30 PM - Cairo time
How can publicly funded research projects secure their data in the long term while maintaining legal compliance, transparency and guaranteeing the FAIRness of their data? In our online presentation, we share practical experiences from our collaboration with humanities projects. Our focus is on facilitating the sharing and reuse of data by providing clear legal information for the users of our platform. In addition, new technologies such as AI raise questions – and sometimes fears. What influence can it have on the open access mentality?
Sponsor: Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities.
Zoom link: https://unibas.zoom.us/j/62727695059?pwd=Ji785WOWcGyQrRdYW2LL9kEblHBBfJ.1
Meeting ID: 627 2769 5059
Passcode: 105732
Date & Time: Thursday, October 23 2025, 6:00 PM - 7.30 PM - Cairo time
A panel discussion with three thought leaders in the field:
Dr. Samuel Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library, one of the organizers of the Radical Open Access Collective, and author of the forthcoming book Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care and the Commons
Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Directory of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and author of the widely acclaimed book Data Cartels
Peter Suber, author of the seminal monograph Open Access and a leading theorist of the Open Access movement.
So whether you’re a faculty member, a researcher, an independent scholar, a student, a librarian or library worker, or someone working in the publishing industry, we hope you’ll join us for this event, which is free and open to the public.
Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 23 2025, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM - Cairo time
Disappearing data! Unreadable ancient files! Ordinary researchers losing hours of their time trapped in data nightmares! This Halloween week, join UNM HSLIC's Research Data Specialist for an hour of spine-tingling, hair-raising data horror stories...and some advice to prevent them from happening to you. Feel free to lurk or bring some data horror stories of your own to share. Beware: This session is not for the faint of heart.
Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Date & Time: Friday, October 24 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Cairo time
Join us for a webinar exploring KCWorks, an open repository platform designed to support collaborative creation, sharing, and stewardship of open knowledge. Whether you're an educator, researcher, student, or open education advocate, you'll leave with practical tools and inspiration for contributing to a more open and inclusive knowledge ecosystem.
Sponsor: Michigan State University
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 29 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM - Cairo time
Disappearing data! Unreadable ancient files! Ordinary researchers losing hours of their time trapped in data nightmares! This Halloween week, join UNM HSLIC's Research Data Specialist for an hour of spine-tingling, hair-raising data horror stories...and some advice to prevent them from happening to you. Feel free to lurk or bring some data horror stories of your own to share. Beware: This session is not for the faint of heart.
Sponsor: University of New Mexico
Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Cairo time
Location: library, Ground floor, Information Skills 2
Date & Time: Wednesday, Oct 22, 2025 - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Cairo time
Location: library, Ground floor, Information Skills 2
Date & Time: Wednesday, Oct 22, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM - Cairo time
Location: library Ground floor, Information skills 2
Prof. Ahmed El kaseer will share his practical advice to our junior staff on navigating the challenges of academic publishing
Date & Time: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 - 10:00 PM - 12:00 PM - Cairo time
Location: library, Ground floor, cultural events room