Open Access Journals Strategy in Algeria

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I work for the "Kallipos" project, which is an open access repository with e-textbooks mainly in Greek.  Due to the publishing costs, we think that open access e-textbooks is the way to go, especially for Greece!    Even though in the beginning it was difficult to convince faculty members to convert their textbooks to e-textbooks, slowly they seem to embrace it and want to create more of the content that they teach into e-textbook! We only hope to get additional funding! Let me know if you…

The Laboratory of Organic Materials at the University of Bejaia, in Algeria, will organize a workshop as part of the International Open Access Week. On Thursday, October 27th, 2016  a lecture will be held on Open Access In Algeria  at the University of Bejaia. …

Visit the Open Science Event at Univeristy of Vienna on Tuesday, October 25: Find all details here:

http://openaccessweek.org/events/european-pathways-to-open-science

DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material. To assist libraries and indexers keep their lists up-to-date, we make public a list of journals that have been accepted into or removed from DOAJ but we will not discuss specific details of an application with anyone apart from the applicant. Neither will we discuss…

Open Access Week is fast approaching, and there are some fantastic events and other projects in the OA Week lineup. 

Here at Open Book Publishers, we are planning some of our own projects – we will be publishing a series of blog posts by librarians, regarding Open Access books, discussing topics such as:

• The issues that librarians face in regards to OA books, e.g., difficulties with content and discovery, or…

Open Access Week is getting celebrated all over the world from 25 October to 29 October 2016 Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Over the past decade, Open Access has become central to advancing the interests of researchers, scholars, students, businesses, and the public as well as librarians. 

This Year AISSMS College of Engineering Library is planning open access…

Two years after the launch of the first open access repository in Malta, some thoughts and observations on the evolution of this project can be made. Unfortunately, disseminating information and speaking at local conferences was not enough to persuade academics to upload material. In consequence, the University started working on an OA policy to mandate submissions onto the repository.**

In September 2014, the University of Malta (UM) launched its…

We will have a panel discussion about Open Access Publishing on Thursday, October 27 at noon in L950.

In addition,Gerald Beasley, the University Librarian from the University of Alberta, will present our annual Open Access Week talk, Open Access in Action, on October 27 at 3 pm in the Library. Please join us if you are interested.  The event will be streamed live.  Information about how to access the stream will be provided in this blog in advance.

मुक्त अभिगम Mukth Abhigam - Hindi translation for Open Access.

India celebrates हिंदी दिवस (Hindi Diwas/Hindi Day) every year on 14th September and also celebrates Hindi Chetna Maas (हिन्दी चेतना मास) for a month during September - October.

To commemorate Hindi Diwas and Hindi Chetna Maas and also Open Access Week, it is proposed that we shall popularise the use of मुक्त अभिगम (Mukth Abhigam) for Open Access in Hindi. It is to be noted that that Acceso Abierto is the Spanish…

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( https://doaj.org/)  launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden  is a centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated database containing information on high quality open access journal titles across all disciplines, maintained by a team of professionals. It aims to become…

In Latin America and the Caribbean, research is mainly publicly funded. However, access to the results of that research is hampered by limitations in traditional scholarly communication systems.

CLACSO-Latin American Council of Social Sciences, a non-governmental network of 542 research institutions and 650 postgraduate programs in 41 countries, partners with universities and governments of Latin America and the…

At the Ontario Colleges and University Library Association in Canada, we asked the same question of our community in terms of exploring success and challenges with advancing Open Access.

We decided to collect ideas in the form of a Pinterest Board called the OCULA Open Access Idea Board. We asked our community "How do they celebrate Open Access and engage in other OA initiatives and action on…

In conjunction with this year’s Open Access Week Advisory Committee, SPARC today announces the theme for this year’s 9th International Open Access Week, to be held October 24-30, will be “Open in Action.”…

International Conference on Open Access ICOA 2016

« Open Access to scientific publications: Between use and preservation of the digital memory»

Tunisia, from 1^st to 3 December 2016

You are kindly invited to the 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN ACCESS (ICOA) 2016 which is co-organized by the Higher Institute of Documentation (ISD) and The National University Center for Scientific and Technical…

EA European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are partnering up in organizing a two-day conference titled "Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxy…

This seems like quite the step forward for such a big part of the science community. What do you think?

Discussion on Nature: here

In the Open Access week, Dr. Girish Sahni (Director General CSIR, India), Chief Guest in the Sixteenth Foundation day celebrations of CSIR-URDIP on 24th October 2015, had launched Listing of Open Access DataBases (LOADB) – the listing of open access databases, a portal developed by CSIR URDIP showcasing the databases in multiple areas of science and technology that are available freely for public use. In his address, he lauded the work done by…

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) celebrated Open Access Week 2015 through publishing three articles in The Conversation (Africa pilot). The…