Next week is the annual international Open Access Week where organisations celebrate and showcase open access developments and projects. It is a time for the wider community to coordinate in taking action to make openness the default for research.

This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” aligns with the recently released UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, of which Open Access is a crucial component.

We will be publishing a series of blog posts to showcase the best of Open Access at the University of Edinburgh. To give you a sneak peak here is the publishing schedule:

• Monday: Unveiling the new UOE Research Publications & Copyright policy
• Tuesday: Transformative Agreements: a new way to ‘Read & Publish’
• Wednesday: Edinburgh Diamond: a new OA platform for UOE
• Thursday: Repository Downloads: a year of Open Access
• Friday: Meet the Team: the experts providing help and support at UOE