October 20Wednesday

• Cafe: talk about "Open Access"

  October 20, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Osaka University: Student Commons An open place for talk about open access (OA) will be held by Osaka University Library, collaborating with the Communication Design Center (CSCD). There are several aspects in OA. Library will offer… Organized by Ikuko TSUCHIDE | Type: cafe, discussion

• University of Calgary - Qatar

  October 20, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm – University of Calgary - Qatar Auditorium The University of Calgary - Qatar (UCQ) will be hosting two presentations on Wednesday, October 20th. We will have two guest speakers - Andrew Waller, Open Access Librarian from the University of Cal… Organized by Keltie Ross | Type: open, access, presentation

• Open Access Week (and beyond) and UC Berkeley

  October 20, 2010 at 4pm to November 4, 2010 at 5pm – University of California, Berkeley We're planning several events over the next three weeks. Librarians will lead workshops called "Publish Smart, Maximize Impact;" Catherine Nancarrow will discuss last summer's congressional hearings… Organized by Margaret Phillips | Type: workshops, lectures

• Publishing for Global Impact

  October 20, 2010 from 3:30pm to 5pm – Purdue University Stewart Center, Room 311 Event Series: Open Access Week at Purdue University Panelists: * Peg Ertmer, College of Education, editor, Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning * Zygmunt Pyzlo, Department of Psycholog… Organized by Purdue University Libraries | Type: panel, discussion

• Science is open: an introduction to open access

  October 20, 2010 from 3pm to 3:30pm – online The Helmholtz Open Access Project will offer a free “webinar” for Ph.D. students of the Helmholtz Association. Interested Helmholtz Ph.D. students are invited to participate in an introductory web se… Organized by Paul Schultze-Motel | Type: seminar, webinar

• Maximize the impact of your research!

  October 20, 2010 from 3pm to 5pm – Otaru University of Commerce, Japan A lecture meeting celebrating the 3rd anniversary of Otaru University of Commerce Repository. Organized by Otaru University of Commerce Library | Type: lecture_meeting

• University of Stellenbosch

  October 20, 2010 from 2pm to 6pm – South Africa 1. Signing the Berlin Declaration: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html 2. Launching institutional repository: http://scholar.sun.ac.za 3. Video stream all presentations live via… Organized by Ina Smith | Type: seminar

• Open Access for Earth & Climate Scientists

  October 20, 2010 at 2pm to October 21, 2010 at 6pm – Brest, France & globally online The training aims to make climate-related research & data more transparent and accessible to society & stakeholders. Our strategy is to focus on the real open access carrots for authors: visi… Organized by Ivo Grigorov (CNRS), Catherine Bertignac (UBO), Dominique Gac (UBO)) | Type: training, webinars

• Launch of RIAN: Open Access To Irish Research

  October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4pm – The Convention Centre, Dublin RIAN is Ireland's Open Access Research Portal. It harvests content from Open Access institutional repositories in all seven Irish universities and from Dublin Institute of technology. It is the outco… Organized by Irish Universities Association | Type: launch

• Open Access disseminated from Japan

  October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 5pm – National Institute of Informatics Outline: From October 18 to 24, events for promoting open access will be held throughout the world. The 6th SPARC Japan Seminar is titled "Open Access disseminated from Japan," and we wish that it wi… Organized by National Institute of Informatics / SPARC Japan | Type: workshop