WE ARE JIDC, The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries – Pleased to meet you!

We are JIDC, the Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.  We are an Open Access Journal and proud to be Open Access and participating in International Open Access Week.  Our non-for-profit journal publishes peer-reviewed papers focusing on medical and biomedical research studies that affect health and medicine in…

Since I am out of medical school now, it is difficult to organize the on-ground events. However, this time around, I am going to celebrate OAW by writing about it on my online profiles. 

Check out my opening post on the issue:  So, You Hit A Paywall?

Hope you enjoy reading it. Cheers!

A series of seminars at UCT in Open Access Week

PART TWO: Kenya, Malawi This is the second of a five-part series that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011. The first part (Botswana, Ethiopia and Ghana) may be found here:…

The EU Commissioner for Europe’s Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, gave the starting signal for the Dutch contribution to the annual international Open Access week. In a video message on the www.surf.nl/open2011 website, Ms Kroes says that open access to research results – both publications and research data – is not just a luxury. She sees Open Access as a must for the Netherlands…

As a part of the project of making the service Directory of Open Access Journals available on other languages than English the site has been translated into Greek. The translation has been carried out thanks to a cooperation between Lund University Libaries, Head Office and the consortium HEAL-Link.

DOAJ in Greek

To coincide with Open Access Week, Maney will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via …

Open Access Week is a great opportunity for Maney and other publishers to discuss and review new directions in scholarly communication.

To coincide with Open Access Week, Maney will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via…

S’il est un domaine qui mérite d'être expliqué, c’est bien celui relatif au libre accès aux publications scientifiques, plus connu sous le vocable anglais « Open Access ». En lieu et place d’une description détaillée du mouvement (le stade de concept ayant été dépassé depuis longtemps) qui est en pleine expansion avec des réalisations concrètes, je propose quelques tutoriels en ligne et autres liens facilitant sa compréhension. Pour les détails un détour par…

I am writing this from Mexico City. Last Thursday I gave a lecture at the lifelong learning division of theschool of humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. 

The topic was "Blogging as a Tool for Teaching and Research", and even though my personal perspective has been defined by the arts, humanities and social sciences, the lecture's scope included other academic…

Open Access Newsletter (in Dutch only, sorry) of the University of Groningen Library, The NetherlandsA new initiative to publish this newsletter 3 times in a year. The first one is focussed on Open Access Week 2011http://ning.it/mY3KlqUse the following link to read the content via Google Translate:http://ning.it/oZrkuj

The digital version in pdf is containing just the headlines, click the links to get the online content!…

Einstein once said, "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so."

Although Einstein himself did his most seminal work prior to his 30th birthday, this is not the case for all scientists. Alexander Fleming was 47 when he discovered penicillin, Andrew Wiles was 42 when he proved Fermat's theorem and Luc Montagnier was 51 when he discovered HIV with his colleagues. We have put together an infographic on this page showing 80…

Libraries associated to REBIUN, the Spanish Academic Libraries Network, have prepared a wide range of activities that can be seen collected at http://www.rebiun.org/pruebaConfig/documentos/openaccessweekrebiun_2011.html

REBIUN itself, in collaboration with the Universidad de Salamanca has organized a round…

Benjamin D. Hennig is a researcher from the Social and Spatial Inequalities (SASI) Research Group at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK. Benjamin, through SASI, is also a member of the Worldmapper Proje…

PART ONE: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana This is the first of a five-part series that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011

With thanks to co-authors Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme manager, EIFL (…

Hi everyone! Last week I mentioned that we were going to make an Open Access Week announcement this week. 

I am thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a JIDC Open Access Week rReception.  The reception is Friday, October 28^th, 2011 at 3pm to 5pm in Toronto, Canada. 

To celebrate JIDC participation in Open Access Week we will be having food and drinks as well as JIDC and…

Here's some information on a few great OA Week events happening in and around the bay area this year. If anyone has information on events at Berkeley and Stanford, please share.

How I engage with open acess:

• I deposit my peer-reviewed papers in the University of Bath institutional repository, the vast majority of which contain full text.
• I make the slides for my presentations available on Slideshare, with a Creative Commons licence.
• I permit others to record and stream my talks at many conferences…