The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education was established in 2003. It carries out research, education and capacity building activities in the fields of water, environment and infrastructure. UNESCO-IHE continues the work that began in 1957 when IHE first offered a postgraduate diploma course in hydraulic engineering to practising professionals from developing countries.…

Wits academics are invited to contact Denise Nicholson at denise.nicholson@wits.ac.za to learn how to upload copies of their publications onto Wits Institutional Repository on DSpace (WIReDSpace) (http://ning.it/PFCy9g).  Find out what your publishers' copyright policies in this regard are by checking SHERPA/ROMeO website at http://ning.it/QF6du0

For information…

PROMINENT FEATURES OF IJMESS:

• IJMESS is recognized by American Economic Association (AEA) the annotations can be found in Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
• IJMESS is in license agreement with Global Content Alliance (GCA) for maximum expsure of its contents.
• Press release facility available if required.

Indexing and Abstracting:

• Cabell's Directories (U.S.A)
• Ulrich's Web…

In preparation for Open Access Week (October 22-28), we are issuing the final version of the Open Access Spectrum Guide (OAS) today so that people can download and print it for their use next week and beyond. This resource outlines the core components of open access (e.g., reader rights, reuse rights,…

This year  for the Open Access Week, the University of Liege (ULg) and its Library have launched a large campaign for information:

•  An interactive video produced by the WebTV ULg - to be seen from 22 October on YouTube, the University website and on the institutional repository ORBi.

• Systematic contact of ULg researchers who deposit their full texts in…

We have just published a new DOAJ tutorial video!

If you are interested please look at the video here: http://screencast.com/t/pfyZlOZdj

The University of Salamanca participates, again this year, in Open Access Week. The scheduled activities aim to make known the initiatives developed  to open access in the USAL  (Institutional Repository Gredos, University Open Access Journals and Open Course Ware).  At the same time it aims to increase the involvement of researchers in the open…

Please take a look at Peter Suber's new book, Open Access. In it he chronicles the many advantages the Internet provides in getting ideas out there. He's also posting updates and supplements to this book on his website. This is a great Open Access tool!…

We are thrilled to announce the publication of "The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto."

The Declaration was developed in the wake of UNT's 3rd Annual Open Access Symposium by a national panel of leaders in research data management. The Declaration emphatically states a vision for openness in research data that bridges the converging interests of diverse stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency,…

For the first time, the University of North Texas is participating in International Open Access Week, and the Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and Libraries are taking the lead!  DiSCo and the Libraries are teaming up with the College of Information and the Honors College, and UNT's Research and Visualization Environment (RAVE), to offer educational programming about the importance of OA @ UNT. There are four major events planned - a faculty panel, a student…

Please utilize this great new resource created by Peter Suber and Stuart M. Shieber to showcase best practices in University OA Policies.

eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles.

First announced in summer 2011, eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. Backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, the initiative’s first aim is to launch an open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and…

New Journals:

International Journal of Infection and Microbiology joined on 06/08/2012.

Nepalese Journal of Radiology joined on…

These rare, orphan diseases have severe, often life-threatening consequences, and it is all too common for physicians, and staff at Emergency Rooms to have never heard of these diseases, let alone know how to appropriately treat them when in crisis.

Open Access is vital to this community of people who must educate themselves about their disease, because they will have to educate their physicians. 

Open Access allows patients to print out current literature about their disease…

As part of Open Access Week, the Simmons ASIS&T Student Chapter and Dr. Robin Peek are pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Suber to GSLIS for an engaging, student-centered…

The MBLWHOI Library Woods Hole, Massachusetts will hold 2 open access events during Open Access Week:

Tuesday October 23^rd at noon In the Grass Reading Room, 2^nd floor Lillie Building  …

Let ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Toolkit help you prepare to lead events on your campus during Open Access Week. Adapt and use updated materials like handouts and presentations from the ACRL Scholarly Communication Road Show. Learn about the launch of SCOAP3 and the participating…

This year, the 2nd Open Access Week event will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia on Tuesday, Oct 23rd, at 6 p.m.

For more information visit…

The Scholarly Communications Group of the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University will be holding a workshop to promote our new Open Access Author Fund during OA Week. To help JHU researchers move to Open Access, the Sheridan Libraries and Welch Medical Library have created the Johns Hopkins Open Access Promotions Fund (OAPF)…

Peru is also part of this celebration and we are organizing several conferences and workshops during October 24th and 25th. Please review our program at http://www.openaccessperu.org/ (of course in Spanish) and share with all the stakeholders! We are going to have speakers from Argentina, Mexico, USA, España and Peru.