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Thursday, October 21, 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
Supporting the Digital humanities SDH 2010 19-20 Oct Vienna

October 19, 2010 to October 21, 2010 – Technical university Vienna Togheter with CLARIN, DARIAH is organising the SDH 2010 conference, there will be a special session on Open Access on Wednesday 20 October from 14h to 15h30. Organized by Milena Piccoli | Type: international, conference
Open Access Week @ Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal)

October 19, 2010 to October 21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal Open Access Week @ Universidade Fernando Pessoa will include conferences and a workshop on OA that will take place between October 18th-22nd 2010. Organized by Ana Moutinho & Carla Sousa | Type: conference, workshop
3m10p: a research performance

October 19, 2010 to December 1, 2010 – Temple University Japan Campus 3m10p is a research project in which 10 journal articles are written collaboratively, openly, on the web. Implemented as part of a university class on the Japan campus of Temple University. Join the… Organized by JJ Aucouturier | Type: workshop, class, web, project, performance
Bargaining for Better Publication Agreements: Copyright Workshops

October 19, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 10am – Multiple sessions. See "Description" The detailed terms of your agreements for publication of books, articles, and any other work have an immediate and direct effect on the usefulness and availability of your own scholarship, and the te… Organized by Nicole Bufanio | Type: workshop
Open Access Perú 2010

October 20, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Lima 3 days presentations (some online) from - Miguel Angel Mardero Arellano (IBICT, Brazil) - Gustavo Fischman (Public Knowledge Project) - Remedios Melero (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica… Organized by Open Access Perú info@openaccessperu.org | Type: oa, week
Open Access Week at RECOLECTA, the open access door to Spanish research outputs

October 20, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Spain RECOLECTA presents the activities that will be organized in Spain throughout the week, Organized by RECOLECTA | Type: conferences, workshops, round, tables, and, more....
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
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
Ventajas de escribir en publicaciones de acceso libre

October 20, 2010 at 6pm to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Medellin - Colombia el Sistema de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Antioquia, a través del programa de Formación de Usuarios, ha organizado un evento "Ventajas de escribir en publicaciones de acceso abierto" que se cent… Organized by Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia | Type: oa, week, event
Dynamic Map of Open Access Deposits Worldwide

October 20, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – Southampton UK EPrints, ROAR and U. Southampton's Tim Brody and Les Carr have created a continuously updating dynamic map of recent OA Repository deposits worldwide, sampled minute by minute at: http://roar.eprint… Organized by http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/LesCarr | Type: sampling oa deposits worlwide
Acceso Abierto Argentina 2010 - Jornada Virtual

October 21, 2010 all day – Argentina La Semana del Acceso Abierto se celebrará por cuarta vez a nivel mundial del 18 al 24 de Octubre bajo el lema Leer, Compartir y Avanzar, con el objetivo de promocionar al Acceso Abierto como una nuev… Organized by Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (MINCyT), Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CAICYT – CONICET), Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS/OMS) | Type: virtual, conference
Open Access Week 2010 in Lithuania

October 21, 2010 all day – Lithuania The Lithuanian Association of Serials (LMPA), the Lithuanian Research Libraries Consortium (LMBA) and the Lithuanian Academy of Science organize international conference “Dissemination possibilities… Organized by Lithuanian Research Library Association | Type: conference
Open Access Argentina 2010

October 21, 2010 all day – Buenos Aires, Argentina Open access and free virtual event, in Spanish, presenting experiencies in Argentina: - open access - institutional repositories (case presentations) - training - harvesting - e-publishing Organized by Argentine Ministry of Science and Technology - CONICET/CAICYT - OPS/OMS | Type: presentation, of, experiences, (in, spanish)
Open Access seminar for publishers

October 21, 2010 from 12am to 2pm – Main Lecture Hall of the Main Building of the Warsaw University of Technology Seminar on open science for publishers within Warsaw the Science and Academic Book Fair ACADEMIA. Organized by Agata Dworzańska, Murator EXPO | Type: seminar
Open Textbooks Day of Action

October 21, 2010 all day – Nationwide On Thursday, October 21st, the Student PIRGs will join forces with the Arizona Students' Association and several other student governments across the country to hold a national Day of Action to raise… Organized by Nicole Allen | Type: grassroots
Forum: Open access to research and knowledge - are all winners?

October 21, 2010 all day – Rosenbad Conference center Access to scientific journals is fundamental for researchers from all parts of the world. Electronic journals available online have made a great difference for many research institutions and their sc… Organized by Swedish National Commission for UNESCO in co-operation with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) | Type: forum, on, open, access
Overview of Open Access

October 21, 2010 to October 31, 2010 – Worldwide ROAR, the Registry of Open Access Repositories, has launched an Overview of Open Access to showcases open access material from repositories around the world. Picking one recent deposit at a time, the… Organized by Les Carr | Type: advocacy, support
Open Access Publishing

October 21, 2010 from 9am to 10pm – Duke University, Perkins Library Room 217 A panel will talk about their experiences with open access publishing and its impact on scholarly communications. Speakers: Melanie Dunshee, Mohamed Noor, Mira Waller, Bora Zivkovic and Kim Steinle Organized by | Type: panel, discussion
University of Michigan: Open Access Publishing & Scholarly Values

October 21, 2010 from 10am to 12pm – Library Gallery, Hatcher 100 A public talk by Dan Cohen, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for History and New Media. Thursday, October 21,… Organized by MPublishing | Type: public, talk
Maximizing the impact of your research

October 21, 2010 from 10am to 12:15pm – Hokkaido University, Japan A lecture meeting celebrating the 5th anniversary of Hokkaido University Repository, HUSCAP foundation. Organized by Hokkaido University Library | Type: lecture_meeting
Conference on Open Access - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

October 21, 2010 from 10am to 1pm – Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal 10h00 – Opening session 10h15 – João Moreira (FCCN) 10h45 – Eloy Rodrigues (SDUM-U.Minho/RCAAP) 11h15 – Carlos Fiolhais (U.Coimbra) 11h45 – Graça Seco (IPL) 12h00 – Rosa Marcos (SDIPL) 12h15 – Debate Organized by Instituto Politécnico de Leiria | Type: conference
'Open Access: How Open? How Accessible?' symposium

October 21, 2010 from 10:30am to 12:30pm – Deakin University, Richard Searby Room, Building hd2.006 Deakin University Library invites you to a free symposium to celebrate international Open Access Week in Australia. 'Open Access: How Open? How Accessible?' features keynote speaker Professor John H… Organized by Katrina Barlow | Type: symposium
La ricerca europea ad accesso aperto: il progetto OpenAIRE e i servizi dell'Università di Bologna per i ricercatori

October 21, 2010 from 11am to 1pm – Sala VIII Centenario, Rettorato Seminario di presentazione del progetto europeo OpenAIRE (Open Access Structure for Research in Europe) per la realizzazione di un portale europeo della ricerca ad accesso aperto e i servizi delle st… Organized by Marialaura Vignocchi | Type: seminar
Science is open: an introduction to open access

October 21, 2010 from 11am to 11:30am – 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
La ricerca europea ad accesso aperto: il progetto OpenAIRE e i servizi della Università di Bologna per i ricercatori

October 21, 2010 from 11am to 1pm – Bologna (Italy) Seminar on the OpenAIRE (Open Access Structure for Research in Europe) project, with a presentation of the services for researchers at the University of Bologna. Organized by Università degli studi di Bologna | Type: workshop
Open Access E-journals in Macedonia and the concept of OA, CC and Open Educational Resources

October 21, 2010 from 11am to 1pm – Conference Hall, Faculty of Philosophy In order to promote Open Access at the Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation will organize a lecture in which Prof. Vladimir Trajkovski, chief-editor of Open Access… Organized by Dimitar Poposki, PhD candidate, Vladimir Trajkovski, Md,PhD, | Type: public, event, lecture
OCT. 21: Advocating for Scholarship Through Open Access Journals

October 21, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – Amargosa Room Counselor Education and Librarian faculty will present on advantages of open access journals and their impact. Presenters: Randy Astromovich, Paula McMillen, Dale Pehrsson Organized by Paula McMillen, Education Librarian | Type: presentation
The commitment of the Universitat de Barcelona to open access publishing

October 21, 2010 from 12pm to 2pm – Aula 2, Biblioteca de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona Conference in Catalan about open access journals and the commitment of the Universitat de Barcelona after the establishing of a fund for publishing in such journals and the signature of the Compact f… Organized by Oficina de Difusió del Coneixement - CRAI UB | Type: conference
Open up your research with the Creative Commons license (copyright option)!

October 21, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3pm – Conference Hall 100, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria has invited Dr Tobias Schonwetter, legal head of Creative Commons South Africa, to give a presentation on the impact of the Creative Commons licenses on Open Access and wha… Organized by Elsabe Olivier | Type: lunch, hour, presentation
Cinem@tech Film Screening: RiP: A Remix Manifesto

October 21, 2010 from 12:45pm to 2pm – Rm. A432 (Projection Room), Ursula C. Schwerin Library, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. Creative Co… Organized by Maura Smale | Type: program
Open Access Week at University of Maryland

October 21, 2010 from 2pm to 3:30pm – 6137 McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland Libraries and University Library Council invite you to a presentation by Professor Michael Carroll, American University, Washington College of Law, who will discuss the gro… Organized by Terry Owen | Type: presentation
Conference on Open Access - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém

October 21, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Santarém, Portugal 14.30 - Welcome Session 14.45 - Eloy Rodrigues Communication on Open Access 15.15 - Presentation "Interactions Journal" with director Pedro Reis 15.45 - RCAAP, João Moreira 16.00 - Presentation - Pol… Organized by Polytechnic Institute of Santarém | Type: conference
What Can Open Access Do for Me? Personal Perspectives of KU Faculty

October 21, 2010 from 2:30pm to 4pm – University of Kansas' Center for Digital Scholarship Panel discussion featuring Marc L. Greenberg, chair of the Slavic languages & literatures department; University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and senior curator at… Organized by Ada Emmett | Type: panel, discussion
Acto de reconocimiento por la Libre Difusión del Patrimonio Intelectual de la Universidad de Los Andes.

October 21, 2010 from 3pm to 6pm – Mérida Acto académico donde se entregan reconocimientos a los autores, revistas, investigadores, estudiantes y profesores que difunden el resultado de su producción intelectual, a traves de los repositorios… Organized by Parque Tecnológico de Mérida, Consejo de Computación Académica de la Universidad de Los Andes | Type: acto, académico
Presentazione del progetto OpenAIRE

October 21, 2010 from 3pm to 5:30pm – Florence (Italy) Presentation of the OpenAIRE (Open Access Structure for Research in Europe) project. Organized by Università degli studi di Firenze | Type: seminar
Opening Doors to Access Data: How the Data Curation Profile Can Guide Exploration of Research Outputs

October 21, 2010 from 3pm to 4pm – Purdue University, Stewart Center, Room 322 Event Series: Open Access Week at Purdue University Presenter: D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Libraries On Thursday, October 21, Scott Brandt, associate dean for res… Organized by Purdue University Libraries | Type: presentation
"Open Access: The World of Research Within Reach"

October 21, 2010 from 4pm to 5:30pm – University Library Cobb Room University at Albany Faculty Panel of open access publishers discuss their experiences with open access. Organized by Lorre Smith | Type: panel, discussion
Videoconference: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Open Access”

October 21, 2010 from 5pm to 7pm – Porto, Portugal “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Open Access” John Wilbanks, Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) Organized by Pedro Príncipe | Type: videoconference
Web 2.0 Happy Hour: Open Access Course Materials

October 21, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm – Atrium 632 (Faculty Lounge), New York City College of Technology, CUNY Open access textbooks and other curricular materials are popping up all over. What are the advantages for you and your students? How can you find and use these materials? Come learn about freely-avai… Organized by Maura Smale | Type: program
Interview with Minister of Science in Poland

October 21, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – Warsaw The most important event in Poland connected with International Open Access Week 2010 is the interview carried out by KOED with Secretary of State, Profesor Maciej Banach about opening scientific res… Organized by Bożena Bednarek-Michalska | Type: interview