OA Week has already generated several important OA mandates and mandate recommendations (from Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Science Europe, Ireland).

If your institution, funder or nation has adopted or proposed an Open Access Mandate, please register it in ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Mandatory Archiving Policies): http://roarmap.eprints.org

This will inform the world about OA progress and…

http://roarmap.eprints.org/704/

"Funders should adopt a clear statement in favour of open access, provide a mechanism for funding gold open access and employ clear and binding mandates for green open access. They should encourage and work towards enabling gold open access publication and at the same time…

http://roarmap.eprints.org/706/

The establishment of open access [is] promoted in the Fourth Science and Technology Basic Plan. Funding agencies should require researchers to report to them the method of access to the results of the funded research, including its open access availability, to control the relationship between funding and its consequences. The research results report form of Grants for…

BioMed Central Managing Director Matthew Cockerill was interviewed today by China Book Business Report in Beijing, talking about his views and insights on Open Access publishing, institutional repositories, funding policies across the world and other matters related to Open Access. Matt also shared his perspectives on OA developments in China.

China Book Business Report is one of the most prominent industry newspapers in…

Irish National Green OA Mandate

Peer reviewed journal articles and other research outputs resulting in whole or in part from publicly-funded research should be deposited in an Open Access repository and made publicly discoverable, accessible and re-usable as soon as possible and on an on-going basis... Researchers are…

Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

"The researchers and employees of the [HAS] - including researchers of the subsidized research units and Momentum research groups - should make their scientific publications Open Access. Open Access could be achieved by i.) self-archiving in institutional or discipline-based repositories, ii.) publishing them in Open Access journals or in hybrid journals offering paid…

Renaissance Scholarly Communications owner and consultant John Hagen provided a keynote address today for an OA Week online conference hosted at PUC-Lima, Peru. The conference was broadcast live and available for later viewing at http://envivo.pucp.edu.pe/oaw2012. Hagen's talk titled "Fear and Loathing in Academia 2.0" is…

Showcasing of various open access resources relevant to each faculty currently in progress. These show and tell sessions are aimed at introducing clients to the wealth of Free information available at their finger tips that is valueable in their studies or research. Our librarians are delivering these show and tell workshops in the library and feedback received from clients very positive. Will continue with these sessions even after OA week.

During Open Access Week, the Vaal University Library is offering  a 50% discount to clients who are paying outstanding fines or returning overdue books during the week of 22 - 28 October. After announcing this in the library slot on the campus radio, via e-mail and through notices, response is overwhelming. Students were informed via sms and staff members were e-mailed, VUT community is using this opportunity to clear their accounts and access library material again.  

Relaciones, the offcial publication of the Sociedad Argentina de Antropología, announced today that it had concluded digitizing their entire collection (volumes 1-36, 1937-2011) and is available on their web site. The journal will continue to be published both in print and online marking a new stage in the history of the publication.

Saludos, María José

We have now published a tutorial video on how to search in DOAJ in order to make it easier for users to find and search in the directory.

Please see the video here: DOAJ http://screencast.com/t/F1VjkQ1RxvJ

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".



Like many great academic research libraries Columbia University Libraries feature remarkable resources–and lots of them: "The library's collection would stretch 174 miles end-to-end, and is growing at a…

In acknowledgement of the Open Access Week I have initiated a mini-seminar for the UJ Faculty of Science academics and postgraduate students on 23 October 2012. For venue, I selected one of the available lecture halls, which happen to be convenient, as it was close to the Sciences departments. Thirteen (13) researchers, Masters and PhD students were in attendance from Biochemistry, Chemistry and Botany Departments.

At the seminar we had also six (6) representatives from the library:…

 The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Library participated in Open Access Week (OAW) for the first time in 2010. The concept was introduced to JKUAT by Ms. Jane Gikandi who was the then Head of the ICT section and has moved on to a different university. The library entered the INASP OAW 2010 competition and won a grant of 300$. This helped us in printing of promotional materials.

The success of our OAW activities can largely be attributed to our…

Between October 22 – 28, the National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) joins the celebrations for the International Open Access Week, organizing a series of events -informative sessions and seminar- which aim to broaden understanding and raise awareness of open access issues. The ‘Seminar for Open Access and Helios Repository’ is the core event organized to inspire participation in the institution's open access strategies. Read more at …

MDPI launches a new Open Access jorunal Publications (ISSN 2304-6775, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications), the Editor in Chief is Prof. Dr. John J. Regazzi, there are nearly 30 editorial board members at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/editors.

Publications is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal…

Today we had a great turnout for our discussion Open Data and Open Access in Woods Hole; join us Thursday at noon in the Grass Reading Room for the discussion " A Woods Hole Open Access Discussion for 2012"

Monday, October 22, 2012

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Washington, DC

On Monday October 22nd SPARC and The World Bank Co-sponsored an event entitled “Perspectives on Open Access: Practice, Progress and Pitfalls” at the World Bank. This event served as a kickstart to the sixth Open Access Week.

The distinguished panel of speakers was comprised of experts from the broad range of stakeholders in…

Check out Heather Joseph's, Excutive Director of SPARC, blog post on OA Week 2012. Snippet below with link to full text:

Open Access Week 2012 is underway, and we here at SPARC are watching with delight as the buzz from the announcements, events, contests, launches, and just plain cool activities underway in the community continues to grow.



Now in its 6th year, SPARC’s Open Access Week, an annual, global event that promotes the adoption of Open Access as the new…

This week, BioOne and Dartmouth announced the upcoming launch of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a new open-access publishing program. Elementa was created through a collaboration among BioOne, Dartmouth, and several other leading research universities, and will publish original research that will report new knowledge of the Earth's physical, chemical, and biological systems during this era of human impacts. Elementa will publish contributions that explore feedbacks between…