Copyright First Responders Presents: Data Cartels, the Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information featuring Sarah Lamdan (Online)
Join Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, for a discussion of her 2022 book, Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information (Stanford University Press). Drawing from her expertise in law and library science, Lamdan explores how a handful of powerful corporations—often better known for legal and academic databases—have transformed public data into private commodities, which raises urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and access to information in our digital society.
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Join Harvard Library in celebrating International Open Access Week 2025, October 20-26!
The 2025 Open Access Week theme asks, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” In response to this important question, Harvard Library will host events and offer materials that explore how, “in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce.”
Find and register for OA Week events, read the annual Open Access Week Statement from Martha Whitehead, Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, and consider how you can participate in and reassert control over your own knowledge production.
Presentations and materials from the week’s sessions will be shared on the Open Science Framework.
If you have questions about open access or any of the Open Access Week offerings, please contact Harvard Library’s Open Scholarship and Research Data Services.
