{"id":7490,"date":"2025-10-21T04:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:11:05","slug":"share-your-knowledge-retain-your-rights-starting-an-open-access-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2025\/10\/21\/share-your-knowledge-retain-your-rights-starting-an-open-access-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your knowledge, retain your rights: starting an Open Access Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Share your knowledge, retain your rights: starting an Open Access Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Andrew Weiss, Digital Services Librarian (CSUN University Library)<\/p>\n

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Once again, it\u2019s that time of year. International<\/strong> Open Access Week<\/strong><\/a> is upon us!\u00a0 At the CSUN University Library we are hosting the event Open Access 2025: Share your Knowledge, Retain your Rights – Start an OA Journal<\/a> to expand the awareness of open access with a push toward those interested in starting an Open Access Journal. Join us on October 22nd<\/sup>, 10:00 AM, in the Library\u2019s Ferman Presentation room.<\/p>\n

Open access, open minds, open borders: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Each year, Open Access Week attempts to raise awareness of the issues surrounding academic publishing. This year\u2019s overall theme is \u201cWho owns our knowledge?\u201d challenging us all to take a cold, hard look at the ways in which current publishing and copyright practices may have a negative impact on the sharing of important research information, not only within the borders of academia \u2013 or even our own country \u2013 but also internationally.<\/p>\n

Clearly, seeking global standards toward openness in information, knowledge, and data sharing drives much of what the open access movement is all about. One of the main drivers of this push for openness is the acknowledgement that information doesn\u2019t flow openly; it is, for lack of a better term, \u201cinefficient\u201d in its spread throughout the world.<\/p>\n

These yearly events strive to eliminate or, at the very least, raise awareness of some of these ongoing roadblocks to the sharing of information \u2013 including knowledge and research advancements in the health sciences, public and social administration, and advances in overall quality of life via education, sociology, government and policy, and the humanities.<\/p>\n

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Barriers to openness:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are numerous barriers to the sharing of information, not least is the assumption that knowledge must be subject to the decisions of a gatekeeper. Often this is framed in the faux-beneficence of protecting \u2018prestige\u2019 or reputations. Sequestering important information behind a paywall reduces knowledge to a commodity built on artificial scarcity, a situation exacerbated by:<\/p>\n