BioMed Central have produced a number of posters  to show our support for Open Access Week.  They can be freely downloaded and put up in your labs, libraries, lecture theatres or even your living rooms if you really want!  Why not brighten up that blank space on the wall and remind people about the importance of open access?

During the months of editing the Journal of European Psychology Students' Bulletin, we have written quite a few posts on Open Access. They are primarily aimed at educating and engaging students on open access topics. There are some great introductory posts explaining the basics of open access, but also some critical pieces discussing current developments in OA.

You can find our whole OA archive …

This year we will be…

The overview of Dutch activities during the Open Access week 2012 is online onwww.openaccess.nl/oaweek2012. The overview is only available in Dutch. But several seminars and presentations will be in English. More information on these presentations is available in English on the local websites.

Open Access Mini Seminar, 25 October 2012

To celebrate Open Access week this year, VUT Library has organized a one day mini seminar on Thursday, 25 October. This will be held at Vanderbijlpark Campus and several speakers have been invited from universities, publishing houses, libraries and other organizations to share ideas on open access publishing, policies, the rights of authors and publishers, and other topics. For further information on the activities planned at…

The Webinar Programme for the "Open Access Week @ AIMS" is now available online!

As part of the CIARD Movement, the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) community is…

Khazar University Library and Information Center (LIC) has been participating in Open Access Week during last some years. The main our activities were presentations, publications, translations the key OA documents from English into Azeri, etc. 

In 2011 year Translation the…

The local activities in the Netherlands are online: www.openaccess.nl/oaweek2012. 

Now only availble in Dutch, soon to be translated to English.

We twitter with #OAweekNL

The JKUAT library in partnership with JKUAT students has previously participated in the OAW 2010 and 2011 with activities such as workshops, exhibitions, competitions and a beauty pageant which has now become an annual event.

This year the library will be working with JKUMUN students to create awareness of the JKUAT institutional Repository which is based on the Open Access model of publishing. The students will be visiting the various departments and demonstrating…

The JKUAT library in partnership with JKUAT students has previously participated in the OAW 2010 and 2011 with activities such as workshops, exhibitions, competitions and a beauty pageant which has now become an annual event. This year the library will be working with JKUMUN students to create awareness of the JKUAT Institutional Repository which is based on the Open Access model of publishing. The students will be visiting the various academic departments and demonstrating the JKUAT…