Danish Open Access Week 2026 - Oct 19-23
Go directly to the programme - Practical information
For the fifth year in a row, the Danish Open Access Network is very proud to invite everyone to the Danish Open Access Week 2026. Below you can read more about the programme and sign up for the individual webinars.
The Danish Open Access Week 2026 will include a series of different webinars on Open Access. The programme has been designed to appeal to as broad an audience as possible and covers various aspects of Open Access.
The webinars are open to anyone with an interest in Open Access.
Practical information
The webinars will be held on weekdays during week 43 (October 19-23 2026). You can read more about each webinar by clicking on the titles in the programme below. The registration form can be found under the description of each webinar. All the webinars are free of charge and anyone can register. All webinars are held in English.
The webinars will not be recorded. If the presenters give their consent, the slides will be shared after the webinars have taken place.
Programme of the Danish Open Access Week 2026
Monday - October 19
-13:00-14:30 (CEST): Understanding Copyright, Open Access, Licensing & AI
Kasper Bøgh Pedersen, Senior Advisor, DTU Library
Tuesday - October 20
-13:00-14:00 (CEST): Diamond OA books – shining new perspectives
Niels Stern, Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)
Wednesday - October 21
-13:00-14:30 (CEST): AI & predatory publishing
Lorna Wildgaard, consultant at Research Service, Copenhagen University Library (Royal Danish Library)
Thursday - October 22
-10:00-11:00 (CEST): Diamond Open Access in the humanities: growth, but a precarious future?
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Professor, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern Denmark
Lars Boje Mortensen, Professor, Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark
Mikkel Gerken, Professor, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern Denmark
-13:00-14:30 (CEST): Introduction to FAIR: Enabling Research That’s Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Mareike Christina Harms Buss, RDM Chief Advisor - CBS Library & Academic Services
Friday - October 23
-13:00-14:00 (CEST): AAU OPEN: Two Years of University-Led Diamond Open Access Publishing
Kathrine Bjerg Bennike, Senior Consultant at Aalborg University Library and Lead of AAU OPEN.