The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is an international membership organization for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers dedicated to understanding work-family challenges and helping to form solutions.  The WFRN has a freely available research repository, the Work and Family Commons, which is the only one of its kind explicitly dedicated to this field of study.  In honor of Open Access Week, we're using the Web and social media to encourage our members to upload their work…

Open Access Nepal – a student lead initiative – will be hosting a series of events in Nepal during International Open…

Open Access Discussion: Extending the Reach of…

Celebrate Open Access week early in Syracuse, NY!

Unlocking Open Access: Making it work for publishers, authors, and institutions

Date: Friday, 17 October

Location: Craftsman Inn, Fayetteville, NY

For more details and to register: http://uny.sla.org/upcoming-events  

Please plan on joining the Upstate New York chapter of SLA (UNYSLA) as we dig deep into the evolving world of open access. …

SPARC Japan hosts a seminar on 21 October 2014 (1:30-5 p.m. Japan time) titled "Science for Generation Open".

The third SPARC Japan Seminar of 2014, in keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Generation Open”, will focus on the various activities being taken by “Generation Open” in Japan. “Generation Open”, describes early-career researchers and future…

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International Open Access Week (http://openaccessweek.org/)  is coming up on October 20-24, 2014.    Would you like to know more or wish to separate the hype from the common sense?   



I have considerable experience  with my own publications and advocating for open access participation, as well as warning the unsuspecting about questionable, unethical, or…

Open Access Week events at Washington University in St. Louis

The Scholastica team would like to share an open access ebook we created in response to inquiries we've received about how to launch an OA journal—The OA Journal Starter Kit. This succinct CC BY ebook guide encompasses all of the information needed to get an OA journal off the ground, cultivate a readership, and attract submissions and…

Most of our events are now live on Eventbrite!

Monday:

Open Textbooks: Benefits and Challenges for UNM…

The Rhodes University Library in collaboration with the Rhodes Research Office is hosting an Open Access symposium on  21 October 2014 (09:30 – 13:00) in observance of the International Open Access Week initiative.…

We're hosting a day showcasing research on Brock authors and Open Access, a panel discussion about OA publishing, a workshop on Wikipedia in education and a hands-on session featuring (mostly free) tools for tracking research impact.

Website: here