Day of events to promote open science in the framework of the International Open Access Week.

On October 24, representatives from various sectors of the Peruvian academic community will meet to discuss strategies for sharing academic and scientific knowledge in an open and equitable manner.

Within the framework of Open Access Week 2024, a series of debates will be held under the central theme: “The academic community facing the commercialization of knowledge”. These meetings, both face-to-face and virtual, will be attended by specialists and researchers from different areas, who will analyze the impact of the growing commercialization of access to knowledge. The main concern arises from the rising costs of publication in commercial open access journals and subscriptions to international bibliographic databases, a reality that also affects the Peruvian academic community.

Among the issues to be addressed are the control of knowledge production by a few companies and the implications of the collection of personal data in commercial platforms, which could compromise academic freedom. In addition, ways of aligning commercialization with the public interest will be explored, and technological and community alternatives for the dissemination of knowledge in Peru will be presented.