Open Access Week

Open Access Week is a special time of the year when people all over the world celebrate and promote the idea of making research and academic work available to everyone for free!

You know when you have a really good toy that you love to play with, and you want your friends to be able to play with it too? Well, scientists and academics feel the same way about their work - they want everyone to be able to see it and use it! That's why during Open Access Week, they make sure that their research papers, articles, books, and other work can be read and used by anyone, no matter where they are in the world or how much money they have.

This is important because it means that lots of people can learn from and use the work that scientists and academics do. This includes students doing research for school, doctors looking for information to help their patients, and even people who just want to learn new things!

So during Open Access Week, people all over the world come together to share their work with others, and to talk about why it's so important to make sure that knowledge and information is available to everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from.