The theme for 2021’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 25-31, will be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”.
Open Access (OA), also known as public access, is a type of unrestricted access to scholarly publications that is online, free of charge to ev
eryone and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The goals of OA include making taxpayer-funded research available to all people regardless of their socio-economic status and having scholarship accessible to scholars and researchers in developing countries and at low-funded institutions.
For more information on Open Access, including the different types and models of OA, see our Open Access resource guide.
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an agenda by 
Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1 by Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission" (OER Commons's About page).
Open Source Programs are "software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance" (What is open source software?).
Preprints: A preprint is an open access version of a paper posted on a public server prior to formal peer review.
For more information on preprint servers, see our blog post on finding the right place for your preprints (internal LANL users only).