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Monday, October 18, 2010

Open Access Week Banner

October 8, 2010 at 10am to October 31, 2010 at 7pm – University Library Open Access Week Banner - University Library Organized by Lorre Smith | Type: exhibit
Open Access Week - Library Exhibits

October 11, 2010 at 10am to October 29, 2010 at 7pm – University at Albany, Albany, New York University Library and Science Library exhibits will help raise awareness of Open Access Week and fundamental information regarding open acess to scholarly research. Organized by Lorre Smith | Type: exhibit
OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders

October 15, 2010 at 6pm to October 25, 2010 at 7pm – Global OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week. On October 18, the first da… Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: oa mandate sweepstakes
The Mandated Open Access Impact Advantage

October 17, 2010 at 6pm to October 18, 2010 at 7pm – Global Results to appear in PLoS ONE: HERE (n.b. embargoed [inaccessible] till 5pmEST, Oct 18) Preview preprint today: HERE Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Har… Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: mandated oa advantage
Scholarly output in health sciences: publication process and open access

October 18, 2010 to October 20, 2010 – Rome This event is organized within the European Porject NECOBELAC with the objective to create awareness in scientific writing and open access publication and at the same time promote cooperaton between… Organized by Paola De Castro | Type: training, for, trainers
Open Access Week at the University of Minnesota

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The University of Minnesota Libraries will be hosting a series of events throughout the week, on both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. We will offer two sessions of hands-on workshops for gradu… Organized by Nancy Sims | Type: whirlwind, workshop, outreach, week
Open Access Week at Texas A&M

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas A university presidential proclamation will kick off Texas A&M's week-long celebration of Open Access Week. The campus community can drop by the OA Cafe (information booth) to learn more about op… Organized by Texas A&M Libraries | Type: information, booth, workshop, giveaways
Open Access Week at the University of Sussex

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Brighton, UK The Library is holding a number of events, including lunchtime seminars for researchers, a BioMed Central workshop on getting research published for early career researchers, and an event for staff w… Organized by Joanna Ball | Type: seminars, workshop
University of Johannesburg Open Access Week

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Auckland Park, University of Johannesburg Check programme of events at: http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Library/Services/Institutional%20Repository/Pages/OpenAccess.aspx Organized by Lazarus Matizirofa | Type: advocacy/conference
Open Access Week at University of Puget Sound

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound celebrates Open Access Week with displays, t-shirt giveaways, and newly launched online content & book marks! Visit the library to learn more about Open Access at Puget… Organized by Collins Library | Type: open, access, week
Open Access e Conoscenza Aperta: quali vantaggi per chi fa ricerca?

October 18, 2010 all day – Turin (Italy) The event will deal with the state of the art of Open Access, and with the role of OA in the process of scientific communication and dissemination of research. Organized by Università di Torino | Type: event
International Open Access Week at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Fribourg and BCU Fribourg Poster sessions to induce faculty members to ask questions on topics around open access.Sessions de posters pour encourager les collaboratrices et collaborateurs scientifiques à se renseigner sur le… Organized by | Type: oa, week
Open Access Week feature on University of New Brunswick Libraries website

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – UNB Libraries The University of New Brunswick libraries will have a feature on their website talking about Open Access Week, Open Access, and linking to some Open Access Resources that the library highlights. Ther… Organized by Kathleen Gadd, David Ross, Cora Higgins | Type: awareness
OA Week at the University of Pardubice

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Pardubice The University library has prepared five seminars to present the advantages of OA. Organized by Lucie Melicharová | Type: seminar
Open Access Week at Johns Hopkins University

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University will host several activities to promote Open Access Week, October 18-22, 2010. Kicking off the week will be a talk by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC on the t… Organized by Johns Hopkins Scholarly Communications Group | Type: open, access, week, activities
The first seminar for PhD students in Warsaw on open access to knowledge

October 18, 2010 from 12am to 7pm – nstytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN Samorząd Doktorantów Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN has opened new web page about open access model and organized on October 10 the first seminar for PhD students in Warsaw on open acce… Organized by Agnieszka Pręgowska and Diana Lamparska | Type: seminar
Open Access e conoscenza aperta: quali vantaggi per chi fa ricerca?

October 18, 2010 all day – Turin, Italy International conference aimed at sharing best practices mostly at the institutional level (support to IR, mandates and so on). Organized by Elena Giglia | Type: conference
OA Week 2010 activities at the University of Calgary

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) at the University of Calgary has a fulsome set of events planned for OA Week 2010. Here are some of the main activities: *On Wednesday, October 20, Jean-Claude… Organized by Andrew Waller | Type: presentations, and, displays
Introduction to Open Access and Author Copyright in the Digital Ea.

October 18, 2010 to October 19, 2010 – University of Alexandria The objective of open access week in Egypt is to create awareness and promote understanding and adoption of the open access movement and author rights among researchers and staff faculty. A series of… Organized by Mandy Taha and Hala Essalmawi | Type: seminar, presentation
OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Global This is a duplicate site. Please click here for the OA Mandate Challenge Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: oa mandate sweepstakes
Open Access Week at Dartmouth College

October 18, 2010 at 8am to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Library Events are listed here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/OAWeek2010.html Organized by Barbara DeFelice | Type: activities, all, week
Open Access Week 2010 Kick Off

October 18, 2010 from 9am to 9:30am – Online, free On Monday, October 18, SPARC will release recorded remarks from Nobel Prize-Winner Dr. Harold Varmus, Dr. Cameron Neylon, and a host of international guests to kick off Open Access Week 2010. Downloa… Organized by Jennifer McLennan | Type: presentation
Zukunftsgespräche Open Access 2010

October 18, 2010 at 9am to October 19, 2010 at 6pm – Berlin, Germany Zukunftsgespräche Open Access (Future Talks Open Access) is an annual event, which took place at Freie Universität Berlin for the first time this year. (The event was held in German) October 18, 201… Organized by Center for Digital Systems, Freie Universität Berlin (supported by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Type: conference, panel, workshop
Open Access Workshop at Moltech Anjou (University of Angers)

October 18, 2010 from 9am to 11am – University of Angers - Sciences Division MOLTECH Anjou (http://moltech-anjou.univ-angers.fr/) will host open access workshop monday. Further informations : http://bu.univ-angers.fr/openaccess Organized by Nicolas Alarcon | Type: workshop
George Mason [University] supports OA!

October 18, 2010 from 10am to 11am – George Mason University, Johnson Center, North Plaza Students at George Mason University will decorate our beloved George Mason statue on the Fairfax campus to kick-off OA Week. Perhaps George's unwavering belief in the equality of all people underscor… Organized by Claudia Holland | Type: decorating, statue, promotion
Open Access Week at UC Davis

October 18, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis Libraries are sponsoring a speaker series for OA Week 2010. These inspiring lectures are open to all. The talks are: * Catherine Mitchell and Patricia Cruse, Cali… Organized by Phoebe Ayers | Type: lectures
University Libraries Promotes OA Literacy!

October 18, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 5pm – George Mason University: Fenwick, Johnson Center, Arlington, & Mercer libraries Throughout Open Access Week, George Mason University librarians will be sharing literature and distributing swag in four libraries on three campuses to promote OA literacy. Students, faculty and staf… Organized by Claudia Holland | Type: education, information
Science 2.0 – practical aspects of the internet revolution

October 18, 2010 at 10am to November 8, 2010 at 7pm – Hall E of Instytutu Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN Part 1 – communication, collaboration, visibility New communications channels (blogs, microblogs, aggregators, virtual conferences and poster sessions) and examples of successful applying in science… Organized by Paweł Szczęsny | Type: seminar
OER Foundation Open Access Week Activities

October 18, 2010 at 11am to October 22, 2010 at 1pm – Online The Open Education Resource Foundation, will be hosting a series of open webinar sessions to to promote the adoption and implementation of open access resources to support teaching, learning and rese… Organized by OER Foundation | Type: open, webinar, series
Open Access Week in Poland

October 18, 2010 at 12pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – Lecture halls Link to website of Polish activities: 1. Samorząd Doktorantów Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN has opened new web page about open access model and organized on October 10 the first semina… Organized by Bożena Bednarek-Michalska | Type: education
Open Access Week at Athabasca University

October 18, 2010 at 12pm to October 22, 2010 at 1pm – Online Athabasca University Open Access Week, Oct 18-22, 2010. Please come and celebrate the AU Open Access week with us. This online event will take place between October 18 and 22, 2010. The objective o… Organized by Colin Elliott | Type: webcasts
Inauguration of the OA week at the Universitat de Barcelona

October 18, 2010 from 12pm to 2pm – Sala Ramon y Cajal, Universitat de Barcelona Open Conferences: "Open Access at the Universitat de Barcelona", Ignasi Labastida "Open research at the institutional repository of the Universitat de Barcelona", Montserrat Aguasca (in Catalan) Mor… Organized by Oficina de Difusió del Coneixement - CRAI UB | Type: conference
Radical Open Access in the Humanities

October 18, 2010 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm – 555 Alfred Lerner Hall, Morningside Campus Gary Hall, professor of Performance Studies at Coventry University and co-founder of the Open Humanities Press and Culture Machine, an open-access journal, will present. Cosponsored by the School of… Organized by Nicole Bufanio | Type: lecture
Open Access Week at Syracuse University

October 18, 2010 at 12:30pm to October 22, 2010 at 2pm – E.S. Bird Library, Syracuse University Syracuse University Library is hosting several events during OA Week. These center around a Monday October 18 Kick-Off Party for the university's newly launched open access database SURFACE http://su… Organized by Syracuse University Library (Charlotte Hess - Associate Dean for Research Collections and Scholarly Communication) | Type: celebration, workshop, launch, ir
Open Access Journals: What are They and What are They Good for?

October 18, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm – University of Kansas' Center for Digital Scholarship Panel discussion with Brian Rosenblum, scholarly digital initiatives librarian; Stuart Day, chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department; and Marc L. Greenberg, chair of the Slavic languages &… Organized by Ada Emmett | Type: panel, discussion
Semana del Acceso Abierto a la Información 2010

October 18, 2010 at 2pm to October 22, 2010 at 9pm – Perú Organized by Open Access Peru | Type: conferences, and, workshop
Open Access: How it Works/Activism

October 18, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm – Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library, CUNY Open Access: How it Works / Will it Work for You? Join a discussion of the viable models of open access publishing, learn where open access journals are indexed and come to understand the impact of o… Organized by Beth Evans | Type: program
Building Business Models for Campus-based Publishing

October 18, 2010 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Purdue University Stewart Center, Room 322 Event Series: Open Access Week at Purdue University Presenter: Raym Crow, SPARC Consultant It is important to understand both the challenges and choices that shape the development of business models… Organized by Purdue University Libraries | Type: presentation
The most Northerly OA week event...

October 18, 2010 from 3pm to 4:30pm – Umeå University, Betula Lecture Hall Welcome to the most northerly Open Access Week event: Challenges of Open Access Medical Publishing Monday 18th October, 1500-1630, Betula Lecture Hall Featuring: Dr. Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor,… Organized by Peter Byass | Type: seminar
Costruire l'Europa della Conoscenza: il ruolo dell'Open Access

October 18, 2010 from 3pm to 6pm – Rome (Italy) The Italian Library Association (AIB) in collaboration with CASPUR and CILEA organizes a seminar on the EC projects related to Open Access Organized by AIB, CASPUR, CILEA | Type: dissemination, event
Open Access Workshop

October 18, 2010 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm – Rector's office, Masaryk University, CZ The aim of this workshop is to introduce this new phenomenon in publication of R&D results, mainly to the Czech academic community. In accordance with the Open Access Philosophy this workshop is… Organized by Institute of Law and Technology | Type: workshop
Launch of (green) open-access book "Intellectual Property and the University"

October 18, 2010 from 5pm to 7pm – UQAM/Télé-université The French-language book "Propriété intellectuelle et université. De la privatisation des idées à la libre circulation des savoirs" (Intellectual property and the university: Between the privatizatio… Organized by Télé-université and Presses de l'Université du Québec | Type: book, launch
Open Access Week at JKUAT

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – JKUAT Main campus - Juja The JKUAT library is planning a series of activities geared towards creating sensitization and awareness of the open access movement and open access information resources during this week. Some of th… Organized by Jomo Kenyatta University Library | Type: awareness
Encontro sobre Acesso Livre no Brasil

October 18, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – Rio de Janeiro Within the II International Seminar on Digital Libraries from Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 17-22 October 2010, will take place "Encontro sobre Acesso Livre no Brasil" (Open access in Brazil, meeting) Organized by UFRJ | Type: international, seminar
Semana Acceso Abierto en la Biblioteca de la Facultad Humanidades Universidad La Plata, Argentina

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – La Plata, Argentina BIBHUMA adhiere a esta iniciativa desde la creación del repositorio institucional Memoria Académica en 2006, y ya el año pasado organizamos diversas actividades relacionadas con la promoción del Acce… Organized by Biblioteca-FaHCE-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina | Type: oa, week, event
EPrints celebrates its 10th birthday during OA Week

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Southampton UK EPrints, the first software that made it possible for institutions to create repositories in which to self-archive their research papers online, celebrates its 10th birthday during Open Access Week.… Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: eprints 10th birthday
Open access week at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

October 18, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – University of Peradeniya , Sri Lanka Open access week activities are announced in Peradeniya University web page www.pdn.ac.lk Organized by Harshani Neelanthi Kumari Dissan | Type: publicity
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

October 18, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – International The EPT has begun a collection of 'OA Stories' - anecdotes, short reports, videos, blogs - to illustrate how open access has affected individuals and their organisations. A work in progress . . . And… Organized by Barbara Kirsop | Type: oa, 'stories'
Open Access Events at University of Toronto

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 21, 2010 at 7pm – Toronto, Canada A series of events on Open Access organized by the University of Toronto Libraries. Organized by University of Toronto Libraries | Type: seminars, and, lectures
UoR Open Access Week Keynote Opening Event

October 18, 2010 from 7pm to 8:45pm – University of Redlands, Casa Loma Room Kevin Driscoll, board member of Students for Free Culture and a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Southern California, has been invited to speak on the connections between free sharing of schola… Organized by Melissa Cardenas-Dow | Type: speaker