This year's motto of this initiative to promote open access in the academic and research world is "Who owns our knowledge?"

The International Open Access Week is celebrated from 20 to 26 October, this year under the motto “Who owns our knowledge?”. It is a poignant question about the current moment and how, in a disruptive era, communities can reaffirm control over the knowledge they produce.

To disseminate and learn about the benefits of publishing in open access, CRAI has prepared several activities:

• Webinar: We help you publish in open access, develop a data management plan and publish research data in open access. Tuesday, 22 October 2025. Language: Catalan. Registrations: PDI, PhD students
• Self-training courses on the Virtual Campus:
  • Publishing in open access (Duration: 4 hours). Registrations: Course in Catalan: PDI, PhD Students, PTGAS Course in Spanish: PhD students Course in English: PhD students
  • Open access research data management and data management plan (Duration: 6 hours). Registrations: Course in Catalan: PDI, PhD students , PTGAS Course in Spanish: PhD students Course in English: PhD students

Other trainings:

• Publishing research data with the Research Data Repository. 2October 22, 2025 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Catalan Organized by: CSUC Direct link to the training (no registration required) More information
• Practical implementation of the principles and commitments of CoARA in ANECA October 20, 2025. 11:00 a.m. Spanish Organized by: REBIUN More information and registration
• Workshop: Reasons for Rejection – and How to Avoid Them October 22, 2025. 12:00. English Organized by: Cambridge University Press More information and registration
• Keys to successfully publishing scientific articles in Wiley journals Monday, October 20, 2025, from 11:00 to 12:00 h. Catalan Organized by: Wiley More information and registration
• How to Publish Open Access with Wiley – Tips for Non-English SpeakersData October 22, 2025, from 9:00 to 10:00 h. English Organized by: Wiley More information and registration

Other activities:

• Open Access Corners. Centers of interest in the different CRAIs on campus with the aim of spreading open access among the university community.
• Open Access and publications exhibition. Books, journals and digitized collections of the URV. From 13 to 26 October, an exhibition presenting the academic publications of the university’s publishing house and the collections digitised by the CRAI, accessible through international repository platforms, will be on display in the lobby of the CRAI on the Catalunya campus

Support for research data management

In addition to allowing open access to the results of scientific production, a very important aspect of open science is to carry out appropriate management of the data used during research.

The URV makes available to the research community:

• Guides to facilitate data management
• Support tools: DMP to facilitate the preparation of the data management plan, as a requirement of the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes of the European Union. RDR, a federated and multidisciplinary data repository that allows Catalan universities, CERCA research centres and other entities that carry out research, to publish research datasets in FAIR mode and following the EOSC guidelines.