Listen to expert speakers and download powerpoint presentations from this two-day symposium held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California on April 12-13, 2012. Made possible through the efforts of the Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project and generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.…

Advances in Open Access à la Nature Publishing Group

http://blog.mysciencework.com/en/2012/04/17/advances-in-open-access-a-la-nature-publishing-group.html

With its recent launch of Light: Science and Applications, an open access (OA) physical sciences journal, and several more OA…

Dear colleagues,

The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania.

To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched. It is a document with a double significance: “understanding” as a consensual agreement among the signatories and “understanding” meaning a good apprehension of the concepts behind…

Through EIFL-OA, 13 library consortia, libraries and organizations in Africa and Eastern Europe were awarded small grants in 2011 to implement national and institutional Open Access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities and Open Access publishing initiatives. Through small grants and support from their own institutions, the projects engaged in a wide variety of campaigns and activities, including: holding workshops, creating websites, building institutional repositories,…

In compliance to the actions to be taken as submitted in our proposal to International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) which attracted the grant of $500 in support of the OA week in MOUAU, Thursday 27th October 2011 was the day the university wide lecture on Open Access was held. It was titled:…

The Open Access (OA) Week at Sokoine University of Agriculture was celebrated from 24th to 30th October 2011; however some prior preparations started some two weeks before the event. Prior preparations were in the form of awareness creation; preparation of posters and leaflets; preparations of presentations; inviting potential speakers; and compiling suitable online OA…

MLA Call for Papers: Issues in Data Management for Humanities Research

 In 2006 the American Council for Learned Societies released a report titled Our Cultural Commonwealth summarizing the promises and challenges of “big data” within the humanities and social sciences. The radical growth of computing,…

Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the prestigious Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This will be the…

October 22 - 28, 2012

http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/open-access-week-2011-dates

The opportunity

As part of the process of fulfilling Section 103 of the 2010 America COMPETES Act, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI), asking individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for broad public access and long-term stewardship to peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research. The RFI poses eight multi-part…

SHOW 2011 (share/openaccess/worldwide) was the first-of-its-kind event to celebrate Open Access Week in Croatia, organized by InTech’s Katarina Lovrecic and Ana Nodilo at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

We tried to catch a glimpse of the future age where sharing is done digitally, information can flow freely and we can decide to either build barriers to contain it or give open access to share it – worldwide. We have seen ideas…

The ‘International Open Access Day’  was celebrated  at S R Valluri Auditorium in CSIR-NAL on October 24 2011 in commemoration with the ‘International Open Access Week’.  This global event in its 4th year is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share what they have learned from professional colleagues, and to help inspire in wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in…

Open Access Week 2011 event was held for the second consecutive time in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” on Friday, 23-rd of October from 13.00 until 15.00. The small group of attendees was mainly composed from university professors, researchers, information professionals, librarians and PhD students from the Faculties and research centers from the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”. In addition, this year we…

The ‘International Open Access Day’  was celebrated  at S R Valluri Auditorium in CSIR-NAL on October 24 2011 in commemoration with the ‘International Open Access Week’.  This global event in its 4th year is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share what they have learned from professional colleagues, and to help inspire in wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in…

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

1:00 – 2:00PM Eastern

Registration is free, but required. RSVP by November 14 at http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=100.

Please join SPARC November 15 for a review of Open Access Week 2011. Participants worldwide will come together for an online discussion to share successes, challenges, and great ideas taken from this year's celebration.…

NML Eprints repository was established in September 2009 with the objective of providing Open Access dissemination of scientific knowledge generated at CSIR-NML Jamshedpur, India. NML’s Eprints gateway has considerably enhanced its global visibility and its popularity has increased exponentially. Eprints@NML is registered with OAIister, Open DOAR, ROAR and indexed by search engines like - Google, Google Scholar, Base, Scirus etc. NML repository has achieved more than 30% annual increase in…

West Virginia University Libraries are celebrating International Open Access Week.

During this week, libraries around the world make a concerted effort to address the benefits of open access –the free availability of journals, theses and dissertations on the Internet shared for education.

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There are a number of reasons why some countries publish more than others but it is no real surprise that the USA produces the most scientific papers. Over the period 1999-2009 there were 2.9 million scientific papers published in the USA according to Essential Science Indicators at Thomson Reuters (see infographic) (http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2009/09decALL/). This is considerably more than the next two countries in the top 20…

On November 15, at 1:00pm Eastern, SPARC will host another online discussion through the openaccessweek.org network, to gather participants and talk through this year’s milestones, experiences, and goals for 2012. Please save the date and watch for more post-OA week news from SPARC, the official organizer, later this week.

SAVE THE DATE

Open Access Week 2011 wrap up

Another free SPARC online event

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

1:00 – 2:00PM…