semanticClimate at International Open Access Week 2025

Event: Open Access Week 2025

Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”

Hosted by: New York Tech Libraries

Date: October 20–26, 2025

Mode : Online

Title of the session: "Open Science and Citizen Science with #semanticClimate: Open-Software for Knowledge Liberation".

• Session 1: Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools

As part of Open Access Week 2025, semanticClimate is demonstrating the semantic tool pygetpapers for automated corpus creation from open access repositories for published scholarly literatures.

Our sessions will explore how semantic tools can be used to make research more transparent, equitable, and impactful—ensuring that critical knowledge is available to all, not locked behind paywalls.

• Date : October 24, 2025

• Time 8:30 - 9:45 AM EST | 7:00 – 8:15 PM IST

• Introduction of semantic tool: Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate

• Hands-on Demonstration:

  • Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ph.D Student, BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR) and
  • Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate and
  • Ms. Shaik Zainab, Anurag University, Hyderabad.

• Session 2 (Talk): Who Owns Our Knowledge? An Introduction to the #semanticClimate

• By Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Co-founder #semanticClimate and Scientist at BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR), New Delhi, India

• Time 12:30 - 1:50 PM EST | 11:00 PM – 12:20 AM IST

This session will explore the critical question of ownership in research and knowledge sharing and how open access can democratize knowledge.