Open Access Week 2025: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Open Access Week provides an opportunity to raise awareness of open access and open scholarship initiatives.

Who owns our knowledge?

This is the theme of this year’s Open Access Week. 

The theme asks us to consider how communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce.

It challenges us to think about how knowledge is created and shared, its source, and whose voices are heard and valued.

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RMIT University Open Scholarship Policy

Open Scholarship Policy intends to transform how our community discovers, accesses, shares, uses and creates knowledge. We work to expand availability of scholarly research outputs, open education and the recognition of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.
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Open research support

The Library provides essential support for the University’s open access commitments through a range of services and initiatives. These include developing the open access publishing and open research guides; creating Media Hub videos, and our read and publish agreements.
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Open education support

The Library encourages and supports educators at RMIT to adopt open educational resources (OERs) as learning resources for their courses. We provide information and guides for understanding open education and open publishing, as well as supporting the access, use and adaptation of educational resources to best suit their needs.
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RMIT Research Repository

As RMIT University’s institutional repository, the Research Repository is a collection of peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed research outputs, publications, non-traditional research outputs, theses, datasets and open education resources produced by RMIT University researchers, including HDR candidates.
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Open Access Week Research Spotlight

Recently published? Want to make your works available open access? Know the rights you retain when making your works available open access via an institutional repository. Attend our webinar 'Know your rights! Making your research open access' on Wednesday 22 October at 2:30pm.
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Open Access Australasia’s program of events

OAA has a range of events taking place in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and online via webinar. These include sessions on the politics of knowledge, community ownership and taking your knowledge back. Find out more and register on the OAA website.
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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