Top international researchers will champion the importance of Open

Access for advancing research at an online event to launch this year’s

Open Access Week (October 18 – 24, 2010).



Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Dr. Harold

Varmus will offer welcoming remarks. Varmus, a long-time champion, has

been an unparalleled leader in promoting Open Access in a succession of

key roles – from introducing the topic of wider… Continue

Higher education sector organises workshops during International Open Access Week.…

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At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the University Libraries, the Association for Students at the University of Nebraska (ASUN - student government), and the Graduate Student Association (GSA) are co-hosting this year's open access week events. We're getting the word out about open access and it's impact on students. Included in our plans is a panel discussion entitled "Open Access: What You Should Know" and a student competition. Students can e-mail their professors (CCing a special… Continue

Press release - October 11, 2010

Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010…

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Science 3.0 is a rapidly growing online community of scientists and people with wide ranging interests. Discussing science with the current and future tools and concepts of information is a great endeavor we are all happy to take part in! In order to increase this emulation, we decided to launch the 'Science 3.0 Blogging Contest'.…

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Stellenbosch University (South Africa) will be hosting a seminar on Open Access on the 20th of October 2010. Organizations all over are invited to broadcast the online seminar locally. Please register at http://oa.sun.ac.za/register.htm. Once your registration has been confirmed, we will forward you the instructions on how to follow the presentation in real time - all in the spirit of open access and sharing! The theme for this seminar…

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Is Open Access to research information important to you?

Tell us why in a sentence or two and add a photograph of yourself:

http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/competition.htm



You can stand a chance of winning one of our 4GB @mire USB flash drives. The winners and other interesting entries will be publicised during Open Access Week.



Eligibility: UP staff members including researchers, undergraduate… Continue

Some Goings On Around SUNY (State University of New York)



The October 2010 issue of "SUNYergy, SUNY Libraries Working Together" puts the focus on Open Access Week, on events at some SUNY institutions as well as on related OA topics and developments.



http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/sunyergy/default47.htm



Featured are events… Continue

DREAM IT project (Development Research to Empower All Mongolians through Information and Communications Technology), supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada organized a full-day workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) on September 22, 2010 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The workshop was conducted by internationally recognized educationalists - Prof. G.Dhanarajan, Hon. Director of Institute for Research and Innovation, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia and… Continue

George Mason University in Virginia, USA, is hosting an OA panel on October 20, 2010. The keynote speaker for the event will be Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, who will talk about OA policies in higher education, faculty publishing choices, open courseware, and access to digitized library collections, among other things. Subsequently, four distinguished Mason faculty will share their experiences with OA publishing. Donald Seto (bioinformatics),… Continue

We have some promotional materials available in Portuguese. You can access in http://www.acessolivre.pt/semana/?page_id=179.

Under the RCAAP iniciative (Portugal Open Access Science Repository)… Continue

UMass Amherst Libraries have been highly involved in Open Access Movement and participated OA Week in last two years. This year, UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events relevant to open access journal, open conference proceedings, open educational resources, open data, copyright and author rights. Please visit the event site on ScholarWorks, a digital repository of UMass Amherst, http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/

For immediate release

October 4, 2010



For more information, contact:

Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

(202) 296-2296

jennifer [at] arl [ dot] org



Leading scientists will be featured in Open Access Week kick-off event

Pioneering Open Access advocate Harold Varmus to keynote



Washington, DC – SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and… Continue

Access to information is a capital issue for all scientific fields especially for health system. REIMICOM/KENEYA-BLOWN and the library of the faculty of medicine of the University of Bamako are

organizing some activities to celebrate the open access week for the first time

in Mali.…

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Did you know...that UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides UK based (and other) biomedical and health researchers with a new view on journal articles found in PubMed? …



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http://oaweek.scholcomm.ubc.ca/

UBC’s own event – Open Access Week @ UBC – showcases a week of…

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The Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT, Spanish acronym), the Cuban Society of Information Sciences (SOCICT), the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC), the Division of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), the National Center for Medical Sciences Information (INFOMED) and the… Continue