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Welcome to our International Open Access Week 2025 hub!
This annual event explores how knowledge is created, shared, and controlled, prompting us to consider whose voices are recognized and valued. This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, challenges us to consider how communities can reclaim ownership of the knowledge they produce and ensure it serves the public good. Through a week of events, exhibitions, and discussions, the UWC Library will explore how open scholarship promotes inclusivity, collaboration, and equity in research.
We invite you to join our events and contribute to the conversation about open access and knowledge ownership.
Explore all Open Access Week 2025 events from workshops to panel discussions and our annual colloquium on the Library’s event calendar. You can check 
when the next event is and book using this link:
Who Owns Knowledge? Centering Community and Inclusion in Knowledge Communication
This session explores the powerful question: Who owns knowledge? It aims to reflect on how knowledge is created, who gets to contribute, and whose voices are recognised in academic and public spaces. The session aims to demonstrate that when communities are active producers of knowledge, not just consumers, research becomes more relevant, responsive, and impactful in solving everyday problems. This session will explore how science communication helps break barriers to knowledge, especially in places where access to research is limited by cost, language, or technical complexity. The session will highlight how open and inclusive scholarship can directly address real-world challenges such as inequality, health, education, and sustainability.
You can check click here to register for this event:
This session will unpack UWC’s publishing and visibility support services designed to help researchers enhance their impact, comply with funder mandates, and showcase their scholarly outputs globally. Attendees will gain practical insights into author profiling, Open Access publishing opportunities, and the evolving landscape of digital scholarship at UWC.
Zoom: https://uwc.zoom.us/j/97065718910
Programme Director: Sinayo Phike | Senior Library Assistant | UWC Library
| 12:45 - 12:50 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Sinayo Phike | Senior Library Assistant | UWC Library
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| 12:50 - 13:15 |
Unpacking the UWC Open Access Policy: Principles and Practice
Anelisa Mente-Mpako | Manager: Open Scholarship | UWC Library
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| 13:15 - 13:40 |
Digital Scholarship: Enhancing Research Visibility through Author Profiling
Mark Snyders | Manager: Digital Scholarship | UWC Library
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| 13:40 - 13:50 |
Q&A
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| 13:50 - 14:00 |
Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks
Sinayo Phike | Senior Library Assistant | UWC Library
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You can check click here to register for this event:
This webinar explores how multilingual practices, and in particular the development and recognition of work around Afrikaaps / Kaap can help reduce language barriers and promote more inclusive access to knowledge. This session will provide valuable insights and practical approaches for all who are engaged in education, libraries, or community language advocacy, in the shared effort to advance equitable access to research and knowledge across diverse language communities.
You can check click here to register for this event:
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