Open Access to academic publications is on the tear, but the transition period seems to be long and expensive. To overcome this, research funders and research performing organisations have to launch common positions and funding programmes, especially to counteract the market power of some oligopolistic academic publishers. Europe is in an ideal position to take the lead in this process.

see:…

Updating the following resources:

• Open Access
• Open Education and Open Educational Resources
• Open Journalism…

Faculty Senate Forum will sponsor a program on October 22, 2013 from 2-3pm in Room 120, School of Education Building

"Alternative Metrics for evaluating impact of scholarly articles"  by Jennifer Lin from PLOS 

A Faculty panel discussion will follow

Whether your events are focused on getting faculty and students informed on Open Access Issues or if you want to promote Open Access projects your campus has begun, start planning and posting your events now to get maximum participation! And don't forget to post your events on the Wiki page as well. This is useful because it…

On our August 6, 2013 webcast our guest speaker, Brian Glanz, showed us that Hackathons are not just for the technologists. Open Access Week is now just around the corner (October 21-27) and a Hackathon is a great way to stir interest, involvement, and possibly create finished projects using Open Access content.

Our guest speaker, Brian Glanz, is the founder of the Open Science Federation and co-founder of the American chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. With…

To support researchers in developing or soft-currency countries, SPIE participates in the eJDS program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, providing on demand papers to individual scientists. Also, through the Information Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications PERii program, SPIE provides access to libraries in developing nations at no or marginal cost.

Negative results are to be expected in experimental science. Most researchers have lab books and files full of negative data, blurry gel photos and graphs showing no significant differences. When I was still working at the bench, the normal procedure was to shelve this data and keep working until you had "publishable results." You would tell your lab…

Announcing our Open Access Week event!

Open [access, data, source]: science & data in the 21st century

https://epcopen.eventbrite.co.uk …

Tools for Open Access Advocacy: Demystifying Hackathons

Another free SPARC online event

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

12:00 - 1:00PM EDT (use helpful time converter)

Registration is free, but required. Please…

SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2013 on Monday October 21^st in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the state-of-the-art World Bank facilities and will host a Liveblog and Webcast for those who cannot attend in person. The event will also be recorded, and be available to the community for use during and after local Open Access…

University of South Florida (USF) Tampa Library is pleased to announce its second year of participation in Open Access Week.  For this year's activities we will have three days of events. Each day will have a different audience focus:  Tuesday (10/22)-Librarians, Wednesday (10/23)-Admin, Faculty, and Staff, and Thursday (10/24)-Students.

Information from INASP website:

In 2013 INASP is encouraging our partner and network countries to use Open Access Week to showcase the activities that universities and research institutions within developing and emerging countries are planning and doing. Your activities might include: 

• creating greater understanding of Open Access or the Open Access movement
• increasing wider awareness and use of institutional repositories
• promoting and providing training…

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Library Website Team has translated the BOAI 10 Recommendations in Greek

Check the Greek Translation

You are warmly invited to SPARC Europe Open Session in conjunction with the Pre-LIBER conference in Munich, Germany, the 25th of June at 2.30pm-5.30pm.

Venue: Hilton Park Hotel Am Tucherpark 7, 80538.



We will discuss how libraries can make open access work now that open access is moving into the mainstream. Can libraries/universities reallocate funds from the big deals to the support of open access publishing? Speakers for this topic are:



Prof. Björn Brembs,…

We want to make sure you're aware of the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) so that you have the opportunity to nominate a colleague (or yourself) by June 15th. Three (3) top awards of $30,000 each will be presented.



The ASAP program recognizes individuals who have produced an innovation by using, applying, or remixing scientific research that was originally published through Open Access.…

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/and-away-open-access-portugal

http://www.dailycal.org/2013/05/05/campus-joins-movement-demanding-access-to-research/

Presentación con motivo de la Semana del Acceso Abierto 2012.  A cargo de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) y CLACSO.

"Open access publishing: 10 frequent questions" presentation for the 2012 OA week, prepared by National University of Rosario in Argentina and CLACSO-Latin American Council on Social Sciences…