Open Access Week 2025

From October 20th to 26th, the International Open Access Week is celebrated around the world, an annual initiative to promote open access (OA) in the academic and research world. This year’s theme is Who owns our knowledge? about how the communities can take control over the knowledge they produce in this time of disruption.

Below we detail the different activities that will be held to promote open access and we invite you to attend!

Step by step: practical workshop to deposit research data in CORA.RDR

Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Schedule: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Format: in-person attendees

Description: In the first part of the workshop, we will explain the elements to consider when preparing a Readme.txt file and submitting a dataset to the CORA.RDR repository. In the second part, attendees will be able to prepare their Readme.txt files and/or submit their datasets to CORA.RDR with the guidance of the instructors. 

Attendees should bring their laptop to the workshop room and have access to the data files they wish to submit to CORA.RDR.

Important: As the workshop is practical, users who register must have a dataset ready to submit to CORA.RDR during the session or in the days following the session.

No attendance certificates will be issued.  

Addressed to: PhD students and UAB Teaching and Research Staff 

Venue: Biblioteca de Ciència i Tecnologia. Sala de Formació (Planta -1)

Language: Catalan

Information and registration: https://uab-cat.libcal.com/event/4380278 

Organized by: UAB Library Service

Do you need to apply for a research period recognition from ANECA or AQU? Come to the informative session

If you are planning to apply for ANECA's 2025 Six-year periods or AQU's 2026 Research Merits and have any questions,vsign up for the information session:

Title: Do you need to apply for a research period recognition from ANECA or AQU? Come to the informative session

Date: Wednesday, 22 October, 12- 2 p.m.

Venue: Rectorate Auditorium (in-person only)

Registration: https://eformularis.uab.cat/group/agr/assistencia-sessio-informativa

The session will cover issues such as administrative situations, working life, publication of contributions in the UAB Digital Document Repository (DDD), open access and open research data, bibliometric narrative, how to reference documents in EGRETA and the CVN, among others. There will also be an open question and answer session.

In addition, we are pleased to inform you that we have prepared a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Research Periods Recognition, organised by topic. We hope you find them useful.

1st Open Science Day

Date: October 28, 2025

Time: 9:15 to 14h

Venue: Rectorate Auditorium

Program:

9:15-9:30 a.m. - Registration collection

9:30-9:45 a.m. - Welcome by the Vice-Rector for Innovation, Knowledge Transfer, and Entrepreneurship, Rosa Maria Sebastián

9:45-10:30 a.m. - Open Science: A global movement and local actions - Lluís Anglada, Open Science Advisor, CSUC

10:30-11:15 a.m. - Open Science and new methods for evaluating university research - Pastora Martínez, Commissioner for International Action, UOC 11:15-11:30 a.m. - Open Question Time

11:30-12 p.m. - Break

12-12:45 p.m. - Barcelona Declaration - Núria Benítez, Head of the Strategic and Open Science area, iCERCA

12:45-1:30 p.m. - CoARA at the UAB and working groups - Teresa Sordé, Department of Sociology, José Luis Molina, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Eva Nueno, Library Services.

1:30-1:45 PM - Open Question Time

1:45-2:00 PM - Closing Ceremony by the Vice-Rector for Research, Assumpció Malgosa

Registration: To attend the conference, please register at: https://uab-cat.libcal.com/event/4436834

Addressed to: UAB Community, Universities and Research Centres

Language: Catalan 

Organizes: Vice-Rectorate for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship and Vice-Rectorate for Research

Certificates of attendance will not be issued.

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Join us, it's a good opportunity to find out more about open access at the UAB.