This week is International Open Access Week. The theme is "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion." International Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fiftteenth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make OA the new norm in scholarship and research. 

Here in Michigan, we celebrate the opening of the Michigan OER Network! This project started at the November 2018 OER Policy and Implementation Summit.

Open Access to information - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results - has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. 

Check out Hekman Library's Open Educational Resources guide.