Open Access Week

Open Access Week 2026

From October 19th to 25th, 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, The Cost of Knowledge, invites us to reflect on a crucial question: if knowledge is a fundamental human right, why does the cost of accessing and sharing it continue to increase year after year?

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: Monday, 19 October 2026

Schedule: 3:00 PM to 5:00 p.m

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/4594713    

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 2026 Six-year periods or AQU's 2027 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, 21 October, 12- 2 p.m.

Venue: Rectorate Auditorium (in-person only)

Language: Catalan

Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MGyJweG2AM

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.

2nd Open Science Day

Date: November 3, 2026

Time: 9:15 a.m to 2 p.m

Venue: Rectorate Auditorium

Program:

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

9:30-9:45 a.m. - Institutional welcome

9:45-10:30 a.m. - When Citizen Science Changes the Way Research Is Done - Josep Perello Palou, Universitat de Barcelona. Department of Condensed Matter Physics

10:30-11:15 a.m. - UAB experiences in citizen science - Sònia Casillas Viladerrams, Department of Genetics and Microbiology. UAB. Tamara Fernandez Cabada, Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine "Vicent Villar Palasi" (IBB.UAB)

11:15-11:30 a.m. - Open Question Time

11:30-12 p.m. - Break

12-12:45 p.m. - The Fifth Freedom - Thomas Sturm, Department of Philosophy. UAB

12:45-1:15 p.m. - Open Science Survey of University Researchers: Presentation of Results - Sara Rovira Esteva - Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asia Studies. UAB. Christian Olalla Soler - Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asia Studies. UAB 

1:15-1:30 p.m - Open Question Time

1:30-1:50 p.m – 2026 UAB Open Science Awards Ceremony

1:50 p.m - Institutional closing session

Registration: To attend the conference, please register at: https://uab-cat.libcal.com/event/4612362  

Addressed to: UAB Community, Universities and Research Centres

Language: Catalan and English

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

Certificates of attendance will not be issued.

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

Consult at the DDD all the activities programmed in previous years.