Library News
Open Access Week
October 20, 2025
October 20-26 is Open Access Week! Join the scholarly communications team from the University Libraries on tour this month to learn more about open access and open access opportunities at GVSU!
Open Access refers to:
- scholarly work - articles, books, research data, multimedia, etc.
- which is freely available online
- which often has few or no restrictions on reuse
By removing financial and legal barriers, Open Access enables teachers, scholars, and learners to find academic information and to use that information to make new discoveries, create new works, and advance human knowledge.
The concepts of Open Educational Resources, Open Data, Open Source Software, and Open Research Practices share this core idea that Open means "free to use + permission to modify, share, or reuse," and allows more people to benefit from more information than ever before.