International Open Access Week 2024 in Switzerland, 21.-27. October

The annual International Open Access Week is a great opportunity for the academic and research community to discuss the benefits and challenges of Open Access, exchange new ideas with colleagues, and to inspire a wider public to make OA a new norm in science and research. Each year the OA Week has a guiding theme, which in 2023 was "Community over Commercialisation". This year’s theme continues the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.

A number of Swiss universities and libraries have joined forces to put together a wide-ranging programme of online, hybrid and local events in different formats for the OA-Week in Switzerland this year.

The participating institutions are:

New events will constantly be added to the program. Please use the Hashtag #OAWEEKCH24 on social media.


Events

23 Oct 2024
13:00  - 15:30

Foyer Geographisches Institut (GIUB)

Organizer:
Universität Bern

Exhibition / Opening

OA Poster-Roadshow

23 Oct 2024
14:00  - 14:45

online

Organizer:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel

Public event

Accelerate Your Research - Mastering Preprints and Preprint Servers (online)

In an increasingly fast-paced academic publishing landscape, preprints have emerged as a powerful tool for researchers to share their findings rapidly and engage with the global scientific community. This 45-minute online event is designed…
23 Oct 2024
14:00  - 14:15

online

Organizer:
Université de Genève

Public event

Retain your copyright and share your articles freely with the Rights Retention Strategy (online)

Promoted by cOAlition S, the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) is a mechanism that allows authors of scientific publications to remain the copyright holders and to release the accepted version of their manuscript in an open archive without…
23 Oct 2024
14:00  - 15:00

Organizer:
Universität Bern

Public event

How Does the Story End? Best Practices in Closing Down a Scholar-led Diamond OA Journal (online)

In recent years, the development of best practices in scholar-led Diamond Open Access saw much information collected in the form of guidelines and published handouts on how best to operate a scholar-led journal. The focus in this supporting…
23 Oct 2024
16:00  - 17:00

online

Organizer:
Hochschule für Heilpädagogik

Public event

Das E-Book Fachpaket Erziehungswissenschaft - Ein Crowdfunding der etwas anderen Art (online)

Der FID Erziehungswissenschaft und Bildungsforschung unterstützt die Open Access Transformation seit 2022 mit der Realisierung jährlicher E-Book-Pakete. Anders als vergleichbare Initiativen setzt der FID dabei auf verlagsungebundene und…
24 Oct 2024
09:00  - 09:15

online

Organizer:
Université de Genève

Public event

Facilitating your article searches with the Unpaywall plugin (online)

Despite the numerous subscriptions offered by the Library, some articles remain inaccessible unless you pay to access them. Some tools such as Unpaywall allow to quickly locate an accessible version of the article if it is present elsewhere…
24 Oct 2024
09:00  - 10:00

HEIG-VD Campus Cheseaux

Organizer:
HEIG-VD

Public event

Jouons avec l'Open access !

Rejoignez notre session de jeu de société sur l’Open Access ! Découvrez comment la diffusion libre et gratuite des publications scientifiques révolutionne le partage des savoirs. Prêt·es à explorer cette nouvelle ère de la recherche ?
24 Oct 2024
10:30  - 11:00

hybrid – online and on HEIG-VD Campus Cheseaux

Organizer:
HEIG-VD

Public event

Valoriser sa recherche avec ORCID

Comprenez comment valoriser votre recherche avec ORCID, qui vous permet de créer un identifiant unique, pérenne et reconnu mondialement. Cette formation vous guidera dans l’utilisation efficace de cet outil.
24 Oct 2024
11:00  - 14:30

Uni Tobler

Organizer:
Universität Bern

Exhibition / Opening

OA Poster-Roadshow

24 Oct 2024
11:15  - 11:45

hybrid – online and on HEIG-VD Campus Cheseaux

Organizer:
HEIG-VD

Public event

Utiliser People@HES-SO et d'autres profils de chercheur·es

Découvrez comment valoriser votre recherche grâce aux profils de chercheuses et chercheurs sur des plateformes comme People@HES-SO, ORCID, Publons, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, ResearchGate et LinkedIn. Cette formation vous guidera dans…

Contact: openaccess@unibas.ch or openscience@unibe.ch