Our Open Access week this year will run from to day 30th October 2023 to 5th November 2023 guided by the theme “Community over Commercialization”. We are in an era of Open Science where the need to join the movement is emphasized. Open Science involves practices that aim at making scientific research and output more accessible, transparent and collaborative in accordance with fair principles. The key elements of Open Science include; ·         Open Access: making research publications freely available to the public removing paywalls and subscription fees. ·         Open data: sharing research data and datasets with the public and other researchers to promote transparency, reproducibility and reuse…