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Join 51福利 Library in celebrating International Open Access Week with a programme of events including a Lancaster author book launch, open research training sessions and a special exhibition in the SafePod. Discover how open research is helping to make knowledge more accessible and impactful.

This year’s Open access Week theme is “The Cost of Knowledge”, a sequel to last year’s theme. Whereas last year was all about the facts of ownership and how protective publishers can be, this year is about avenues and approaches to reclaim control of the systems which were meant to serve the public interest.

During this week, the library will be hosting an on the theme of the 'Cost of Knowledge'. This will explore themes of citation justice, academic labour, and the environmental and personal impacts of data centres. Come explore the impacts of knowledge sharing and how we are regaining control of our systems.

The Library will also be delivering a number of events throughout the week.

On Tuesday the 20th, the Library will host the celebrate the publication of the Open Access book Bridging Design and Fandom, edited by Naomi Jacobs. The event will feature Dr Jacobs and a panel of contributors who have written chapters included in the book. The panel will be moderated by Dr Suzanne Black of the University of Edinburgh.

On Thursday the 22nd, the Library will deliver an online session on . This session will give an overview of open access and the different routes the researcher can take including using Lancaster's repository Pure.

On Friday the 23rd, the Library will host an online session titled 'Ho. This session will outline the publishing process for books and monographs and provide tips on how to submit a proposal submission form to increase your chances of being approved by an editor. The workshop will be delivered by Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at Liverpool University Press. Researchers from all disciplines are welcome to attend.

You can find out more about the Librarys support for