Oct 13 - Nov 05
Día de Muertos 2025
Open Access 2025: Share your Knowledge, Retain your Rights - Start an OA Journal
Oct 22, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm
University Library: Jack & Florence Ferman Presentation Room and Online
Who owns our knowledge? This year’s International Open Access Week invites us to reflect on how scholarship is created, shared, and controlled. At California State University, Northridge, faculty and students are taking an active role in shaping the future of scholarly publishing by launching their own Open Access journals.
Join us for a morning of conversation and presentations exploring how you can share your knowledge while retaining your rights. Our program will feature speakers from CSUN and the CSU who are leading journal publishing initiatives. We’ll highlight Open Journal Systems (OJS), the systemwide platform, while also sharing other publishing models and approaches. Learn about the opportunities and challenges of starting a journal, from protecting faculty rights and navigating platforms to considering how AI intersects with academic publishing.
Speakers will include CSUN faculty editors and representatives from the CSU system who will share their experiences with OJS, campus presses, and emerging models of Open Access publishing. Whether you are interested in starting a journal, contributing as an editor, or simply learning more about how Open Access empowers scholarship, this event offers valuable insights and practical guidance.
Schedule
- 9:30 – sign in / coffee + refreshments
- 10:00 – Introduction and announcements
- 10:05 – Andrew Weiss: Faculty Rights in Publishing: Open Access Overview
- 10:30 – University Library Dean Emy Decker
- 10:40 – Sean Pessin (CSUN Department of English) on publishing the Northridge Review
- 11:15 – How to get started on open access publishing
- Open Journal Systems & the CSU: Dana Ospina (CSU Dominguez Hills)
- Starting a university press: Kyle Morgan (Cal Poly Humboldt)
- Close: 11:45 – 12:00
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome—students, faculty, staff, and anyone interested in Open Access publishing.
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Assistive Services
Requests for accommodation services (e.g. sign language interpreters or transcribers) must be made at least five (5) business days in advance. Please email library.event@csun.edu in advance of the event.