You may have heard of Open Access Week: well, this year the Brown University Library is bringing you Open October! Rather than focusing on Open Access for just one week, we’re inspired by our colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis, and will be talking about Open@Brown throughout the month. 

During October, we’ll be sharing information about various Open initiatives at Brown: the GIS/Spatial data projects, the Faculty Open Access Policy, a cancer wiki, and more. Many of our Library workshops also cover Open themes: publishing Open Access, using Open resources, and more. 

The theme of the 2023 Open Access Week is “Community over Commercialization.” We hope that you’ll join the conversation.