[IRTalk] ASSAf/UJ Open Access Week 2026 Webinar: The cost of knowledge | 20 October 2026 | 09:00-12:00 SAST

[Ina Smith]

Dear Stakeholders

Please join this meeting and kindly share with your networks. All scientists/researchers/librarians/scholarly journal editors/managers are invited.

We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognise that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits?
Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year’s theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge - particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests.
Please join us for the ASSAf/UJ Open Access Week 2026 programme, with the invitation attached.
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Time: 09:00-12:00 SAST
Register: https://uj-ac-za.libcal.com/calendar/16682/openaccessseminar
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Ina Smith

Programme Officer: Open Science and Open Infrastructure

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)



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