From October 19 to 25, the Libraries of Fernando Pessoa University and the Fernando Pessoa Higher School of Health joined again the International Week of Open Access, promoting the dissemination and importance of free access to scientific knowledge among the academic and scientific communities.

Throughout the week, the Libraries disseminated information about the initiative via email, also sharing on their website and social media platforms suggestions for open access resources from different fields of knowledge. 

On the 20th, at 11:00, the program included the webinar «The cost of knowledge: paths towards sustainable open access», organized by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

On the 21st, at 15:30, the Álvaro de Campos Specialized Library hosted two seminars dedicated to Open Science. The first, titled «Publishing without Complicating: Rights, Licenses, and Rules of Open Science», was presented by Dr. Gustavo Oliveira from the Libraries of the Fernando Pessoa Foundation. It was followed by «Self-archiving for the creation of a memory: sharing personal experience», by Professor Dr. Luís Borges Gouveia, a lecturer at the Fernando Pessoa University.