La Biblioteca de la Universitat Politècnica de València quiere unirse a este acontecimiento como una manera de promocionar el acceso abierto, no sólo como concepto, si no como realidad, materializada en nuestro caso tanto en la Política de Acceso Abierto de la Universitat Politècnica de València como en las diferentes herramientas desarrolladas siguiendo este modelo:

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We had a very successful Open Access event on 25 October 2012 at our Deakin University Burwood campus in Melbourne, that we are pleased to share via video.  Not only did we have good attendance on campus with over 90 people but we live streamed the event capturing another 127.  A tweet wall provided some interesting commentary throughout as well.

Here is the link to the repository, …

The main activities of this year’s Open Access Week included exhibition of Open Access promotional material as well as Open Source Software which is being used by NUST Library, Information Literacy Skills sessions focusing on Open Access resources, competitions, a Public Lecture on Open Access, Launching of the University Institutional Repository, and the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities by the Vice…

• Launching of the NUST Institutional Repository by the Vice Chancellor

• Signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in Science and Humanities. 

• NUST became the first Institution in Zimbabwe to sign the Declaration.

• Over 200 members of the University community…

The Scholarly Communications Committee at York University Libraries is happy to announce that the event video is now available online here: http://scholcom.apps01.yorku.ca/drupal/?q=blogvsbook

The audio recordings and slides of Open Access Week @ AIMS are now available on the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) website.

Open Access specialists Jean-Claude Guédon (University of Montréal), Alma Swan (SPARC,…

The National University of Science and Technology has become the first Institution in Zimbabwe to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.…

Like many people involved with and interested in open-access publishing, I came to find this movement after a particularly frustrating publishing experience. After conducting research in Afghanistan in 2008, I wrote up an article in early 2009. It went to a well-regarded journal and -- after five months of peer review -- was accepted. Revisions were submitted a couple of months later, around October or November 2009. A month or so later, we learnt that the piece wouldn't be published until…

Open access is a topic as important for the French research community as for any other, and, yet, no major events to mark International Open Access Week had ever been held in Paris—until now.

At the end of October 2012, Open Access Week finally came to the French capital, with two evenings of talks and…

Durham University has just adopted…