Open Access Week is getting celebrated all over the world from 25 October to 29 October 2016 Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Over the past decade, Open Access has become central to advancing the interests of researchers, scholars, students, businesses, and the public as well as librarians. 

This Year AISSMS College of Engineering Library is planning open access…

Two years after the launch of the first open access repository in Malta, some thoughts and observations on the evolution of this project can be made. Unfortunately, disseminating information and speaking at local conferences was not enough to persuade academics to upload material. In consequence, the University started working on an OA policy to mandate submissions onto the repository.**

In September 2014, the University of Malta (UM) launched its…

We will have a panel discussion about Open Access Publishing on Thursday, October 27 at noon in L950.

In addition,Gerald Beasley, the University Librarian from the University of Alberta, will present our annual Open Access Week talk, Open Access in Action, on October 27 at 3 pm in the Library. Please join us if you are interested.  The event will be streamed live.  Information about how to access the stream will be provided in this blog in advance.

मुक्त अभिगम Mukth Abhigam - Hindi translation for Open Access.

India celebrates हिंदी दिवस (Hindi Diwas/Hindi Day) every year on 14th September and also celebrates Hindi Chetna Maas (हिन्दी चेतना मास) for a month during September - October.

To commemorate Hindi Diwas and Hindi Chetna Maas and also Open Access Week, it is proposed that we shall popularise the use of मुक्त अभिगम (Mukth Abhigam) for Open Access in Hindi. It is to be noted that that Acceso Abierto is the Spanish…

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( https://doaj.org/)  launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden  is a centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated database containing information on high quality open access journal titles across all disciplines, maintained by a team of professionals. It aims to become…