This year’s International Open Access Week has officially come to an end. There is a continued focus on the theme of community over commercialization, prioritizing an approach to open scholarship that is in the best interest of the public and the academic community. Since its founding in 2008, International Open Access Week has grown into a renowned global event, serving as a reminder of the value of making research, data and educational resources freely accessible to everyone. This is especially important for ECRs looking to enter the research ecosystem. Without open access, many countries would be excluded from the scientific community and prevented from conducting or furthering their own research. Open Access Week is an important reminder that access to research results, and the right to use and reuse those results, has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry is conducted. This year’s theme further recognized the need to prioritize an approach to open scholarship that serves the best interests of the public and academia. Artificial intelligence in commercial academic systems makes this issue more important than ever and relevant to the future of the public interest.
Open Access Week itself is also an opportunity to connect with other ECRs, senior researchers, and the research community to share knowledge and ideas to drive further movement towards open science. To commemorate this development, PLOS recently released the latest version of the Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset. This shows that an increasingly open scientific community is moving in the right direction. In my own field of research, climate and health data that did not exist a few years ago is becoming more openly available through the Climate and Health Outcomes Research Data Systems (CHORDS) program and other initiatives. Masu. Thanks to the open access and open science movements, we are moving in the right direction. It is important to continue this development and not take anything for granted.
