Open Access Week is Oct. 20-26

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Open Access Week is Oct. 20-26, 2025, and the theme is Who owns our knowledge? Celebrate with the Iowa State University Library. The graphic above presents updated statistics about how your library supports open resources. A wide variety of events is planned during OAW 2025, and join the celebration.

The University Library has supported the publication of open access articles in journals through a growing list of agreements with publishers. 

• The Digital Press connects readers across the globe with quality scholarship in the areas of Iowa State’s curricular and research offerings. The Press has published works from authors from 16 countries: United States, South Korea, China, Canada, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, India, New Zealand, Brazil, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, South Africa.
• DataShare contains over 250 datasets and 375 figures, which have over 1.5 million downloads.
• Since 2012, research from the ISU Digital Repository has been viewed or downloaded 48 million times.
• ISU Digital Collections holds 24,911 rare, historical resources from the University Library.

At ISU, the Library assists scholars with promoting their work through the ISU Digital Repository and DataShare, ISU’s open data repository. For more information about Open Access and these services, visit the University Library’s Open Scholarship Services website.