Open Access Week 2025

Open Access Week 20 – 24 October 2025

In just a couple of weeks, we celebrate International Open Access Week 2025 (20th-24th October), and we welcome you to get involved in questioning who owns our knowledge with our local theme ‘Whose shelf is it on?’.

The theme should motivate you to question and consider the knowledge that you use and produce, and more critically think about who actually owns it, who has the right to access it and reuse it? Some of the perspectives you may wish to consider are copyright, intellectual property, open access publishing and data sharing.

Pause for a moment to look at our posters in the Luxembourg Learning Centre on scientific discoveries through time that were set free for the common good, most of which you will be familiar with and use on a daily basis, some of these were even invented at our University!

Also visit our focus area for some interesting reading to deepen your understanding of whose shelf your knowledge really might be on. Our librarians are always on hand to support you in practical and philosophical information literacy questions.

This event is brought to you by the Luxembourg Learning Centre at the University of Luxembourg.