Open Access Week arrives again this October, and is a time to celebrate all that has been achieved in the previous twelve months.



The Electronic Publishing Trust is a long standing advocate of OA and the difference it can make. As our contribution to this year’s OA Week, we are offering our third annual international award to recognise the impact that individuals can make. The huge interest in and success of the first two awards makes it clear that such international recognition…

The University of Porto (http://www.up.pt) is promoting the International Open Access Week within its academic community. Several initiatives are being taken.



The activities started with the creation of a specific area at the Information System of the University, dedicated to open access events that occur during these days -…

We're celebrating International Open Access Week with a display, blog posts on the library homepage, announcements, and three events:

Monday 21st Oct, 2pm (L123): Introducing Open Access

Learn the basics of Open Access, the benefits it provides researchers, and how to make it work for you, from Roger Dawson and Sarah Tritt.

Wednesday 23rd Oct, 11am (L123): Researchers'…

For Open Access Week, I've written an essay on Planeta.com and requested comments on my blog.

If there are any takeaways from previous efforts in opening and sharing access to information is that what is most effective is the most widely understood. Wonky weasel words don’t cut it. Meaningful interaction with…

Monday, October 21

Open Access Week Kickoff Webcast

Open Access: Redefining Impact, the SPARC / World Bank Global Open Access Week kickoff event

Tuesday, October 22

Publishing Your Dissertations:  Open Access /…

If you are in the neighborhood, stop by for a presentation and say hello!



--Showcase Your Scholarship on a Global Scale–focus on the open access advantage to research and deposit in Digital Scholarship@UNLV.





--Open Access Textbooks: Why and How? Key features of open access textbooks offer UNLV faculty strategies to take advantage of these personalized, sustainable, and cost-saving options.





--Predatory Research Practices, Beware! Learn about the…

The collection of materials on open access published in PLoS journals is available through the …

Canada’s NSERC/SSHRC/CIHR Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

Executive…

Free availability of knowledge – Open Access at DLR - read more here:

http://www.dlr.de/openaccess

How far is your repository providing a comprehensive picture of your academics' research results?

Are you systematically using your wide pool of stakeholders to help you achieve your goals?

By following these five steps, you should see an increase in your

repository statistics.…

OpenUCT has some exciting Open Access Week events coming up next week at UCT:



21 October 2013: Open Access Explained! (videos)



23 October 2013: Access Challenge & OER Hacka-thon



24 October 2013: Panel Discussion - Out in the cold - accessing scholarly resources beyond the ivory tower



Come and…

PhD. Nancy Sanchez Tarrago,…

In recognition of Open Access Week the Library and Technology Services website of Brandeis University will be turning orange and we will be encouraging all members of the community to consider how greater access to scholarship serves to provide increased interdisciplinary collaboration and therefore potentially greater service to society.

Additonally, we are also very proud to spend the week spreading awareness of Brandeis’ Open Access Fund. This fund provides support for…

The Open Access Office of the university is celebrating Open Access Week with an information desk at the university main building on October 23rd and 24th (from 10:00 to 15:30). There we will inform about Open Access and answer questions from university members. We will also fly…

ALL Woods Hole authors are invited to join the MBLWHOI Library for an informal get-together cider-cake coffee break at 10:15 am, Thursday October  24th, in the WHOI Smith Conference Room, 1st Floor, in recognition of International Open Access Week.

Announcing Modern Languages Open

Launching in spring 2014, Modern Languages Open (MLO) is a peer-reviewed platform from Liverpool University…

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will be holding two events to celebrate Open Access Week 2013:

1. PRESENTATION (23 OCTOBER 2013)

TOPIC:   RAISING YOUR SCHOLARLY PROFILE: THE BENEFITS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

DATE :    23 OCTOBER 2013

TIME :    11.00 TO 12.00

VENUE:   WITS MEDICAL…

The University of Bath in the UK is celebrating International Open Access Week with a mini-conference around the theme of Innovations in Publishing.  Lightning talks will be presented on altmetrics, open peer review, OA for early career researchers, and more.  See our blog post at: http://unibathlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/open-access-week-event-save-the-date/

The Dutch program for the Open Access week is online on the national Open Access website:

http://www.openaccess.nl/openaccessinthenetherlands/open-access-week-2013