Open Access Week 2025 - Who Owns Our Knowledge Online
A look at the draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
Join Mark Swartz, Visiting Program officer for Open Science at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) to learn more about the draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications and possible solutions that CARL is discussing to help institutions manage the new requirements.
In this session, participants will:
• gain a clear understanding of Open Access and the major changes in the new policy, including the requirement to immediately deposit peer-reviewed journal articles into a Canadian institutional repository at publication, ending the previous 12-month embargo period.
• Learn how these changes align Canadian practices with global OA standards, and what they mean for Tri-Agency-funded research grants awarded after January 1, 2026 if the policy is released as proposed.
• Learn about the two main compliance pathways: either publishing directly in journals that are fully Open Access at the time of publication, or retaining rights to deposit the Author Accepted Manuscript in a Canadian institutional repository under an open license, even when publishing with subscription-based journals.
• Learn about CARL sponsored policy compliance plans that support the scholarly ecosystem.
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Faculty /Instructors Graduate Students TMU Community
- Categories:
- Knowledge Mobilization Publish & Share Your Research
About Mark Swartz
Mark is a Visiting Program Officer for Open Science with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). Mark Swartz is also the Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In this role, he manages the university’s Open Access journal publishing program and institutional repository, while also overseeing grant programs that support book subventions and the creation of open educational resources. Mark’s research focuses on the evolving role of libraries in supporting open publishing and protecting user rights under the Copyright Act. His interests include open access, open data, OERs, the public domain, and privacy. Currently, he focuses on the surveillance systems underpinning commercial scholarly publishing and the implementation of secondary publishing rights in Canada.
