What does “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” mean to you?
The 2025 Open Access Week theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, builds on the conversations, events, and actions over the past two years that have focused on putting “Community over Commercialization.” The profiles below highlight how organizations around the world are working to make research open by default and equitable by design.
👉 Join our live sessions online from October 20–30, 2025 — and let’s explore the power of openness together!
Meet Our Speakers
📅 Event Schedule
The Academic Footprint: Visibility, Influence, and Research Identity
Date: October 26, 2025 | Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Mahmoud Khalifa
Enhancing research visibility, building and measuring scholarly influence, developing research identity.
Video Journals: A New Dimension of Scholarly Communication
Date: October 28, 2025 | Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Aliaa Adel
Understanding Video Journals, Why They Matter, open access video Journals.
Understanding Creative Commons and the Ethics of Open Sharing
Date: October 28, 2025 | Time: 2:00 PM
Speaker: Eng. Abdullrahman Hegazy
This session introduces the principles behind Creative Commons and explores how open licensing supports the ethical sharing of knowledge. Participants will discover how copyright and Creative Commons intersect, how to reuse and attribute materials responsibly, and how openness empowers creators to retain ownership while contributing to a more accessible and collaborative academic community
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Date: October 29, 2025 | Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker: Ms. Gala García Reátegui
Introduction to DOAJ, Maximizing the Benefits of DOAJ for Researchers and Libraries.
How to be Open: introduction to Open Science
Date: October 30, 2025 | Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker: Ms. Doaa Mohamed Abdelkader
What is open science? Open science communities, Open tools.
