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AOSIS celebrates Open Access Week 2021

This week we celebrate Open Access Week, a global event entering its fourteenth year already! Open Access Week 2021 will be held from 25 – 31 October, with the official theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”Open Access week offers a valuable opportunity for scholars and the research community to engage with each other, discuss, share, and promote the potential benefits of open access publishing. Open Access research is free to read, copy, reuse and distribute.…See More

Oct 25, 2021

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Oct 19, 2020

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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Louw

Last name: Lombaard

Organization/institution name: AOSIS

Type of institution: Publisher

What's your position?: Other

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: High

What are your goals for OA Week?: Gather information about OA and learn more about OA, celebrating the week.

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: Internet Search

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Reaching international audiences through open access

Open Access Week 2021:

Open access (OA) refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open Access content is available to all, with no access fees.

AOSIS is an open access publisher, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the reader. Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print,…

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Posted on October 29, 2021 at 2:53am

Benefits of OA Publishing

Open Access week offers a valuable opportunity for scholars and the research community to engage with each other, discuss, share, and promote the potential benefits of open access publishing. Open Access research is free to read, copy, reuse and distribute. Studies have shown that open access content attracts more attention than non-open access content.

Benefits of open access publishing include:

Increased volume and spread of citations

Greater public engagement…

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Posted on October 28, 2021 at 10:22pm

AOSIS celebrates Open Access Week 2021

This week we celebrate Open Access Week, a global event entering its fourteenth year already! Open Access Week 2021 will be held from 25 – 31 October, with the official theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”

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Posted on October 24, 2021 at 11:59pm

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