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OA in Fribourg, Switzerland

My private OA awareness campaign at the Chemistry Department in Fribourg, Switzerland:

http://www.chem.unifr.ch/os/2010/10/19/open-access-weird-stuff/

Added by Oliver Schuster on October 19, 2010 at 12:44am — No Comments

“Opened resources of knowledge in the free communication model”

On October 21The Poznan University of Technology Library organizes the lecture entitled “Opened resources of knowledge in the free communication model” for student, academic staff and librarians. The lecture will be held in Reading Room of The Science Information Department (Thursday) at 12.00. Furthermore the Library has prepared information in the form of promotional leaflets, mini poster that inform about Open Access Week event and OA idea and online information on the home page of the… Continue

Added by Beata Korzystka on October 18, 2010 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Theme "Africa"

Welcome to second day of the DOAJ blog!

Today we are devoting our entire blog post to a continent. At the moment, only about one percent of…

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Added by Directory of OA Journals (DOAJ) on October 18, 2010 at 9:38pm — No Comments

OA Week Activities at the University of Iowa

Below are Iowa's planned activities and outreach during international Open Access Week. Beginning Monday we are running a series of ads in the student newspaper, the Daily Iowan with OA related messages, each with a link to more information online. You can see thumbnails of the ads and the web info here: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/openaccess/…

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Added by Edward Shreeves on October 18, 2010 at 5:23am — No Comments

Greetings form Framingham State University!

Our Open Access Week description is described here: http://whittemorelibrary.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/open-access-week-2010/

Added by Millie Gonzalez on October 18, 2010 at 5:05am — No Comments

UK PubMed Central: what drives development of this huge open access resource?

Over the last two years or so, our hardworking UKPMC development team here at the British Library have often been asked 'why are you developing a UK PubMed Central?' There are a whole series of answers to this, but I outline two below which are quite wholesomely toothsome.

Firstly, the UK's eight largest funders of biomedical and health research (http://ukpmc.ac.uk/Funders/) encourage all the recipients of their grants to publish in Open Access… Continue

Added by Paul Davey on October 18, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

New books of interest for Open Access Week

Open Book Publishers has two titles, recently published,

of interest to those participating in Open Access Week.

Each book is available completely for free; Open Book has

a strict peer review policy.

1. Privilege and Property, edited by Ronan Deazley,

Martin Kretschmer… Continue

Added by Georgina Hill on October 18, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Indiana University and American Folklore Society launch Open Folklore Portal

See press release: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15922.html

Open Folklore site: http://www.openfolklore.org/

Added by Jennifer Laherty on October 18, 2010 at 2:32am — 1 Comment

Momentum continues: Open Access Week 2010 begins - Leading researchers present the individual and collective benefits of free online access to research

Washington, DC – Today marks the start of Open Access Week 2010, as thousands of scholars, faculty, and students in nearly 90 countries worldwide participate in events to raise awareness and advance understanding of the benefits of Open Access (OA). The week features the voices of top researchers who have stepped forward with first-hand accounts of how Open Access to research has positively impacted them and their ability to do their work. In opening remarks… Continue

Added by Jennifer McLennan on October 18, 2010 at 2:00am — No Comments

Theme "Open Access"

Welcome to the DOAJ blog!…

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Added by Directory of OA Journals (DOAJ) on October 17, 2010 at 7:31pm — No Comments

OA Week at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

At the University of Fribourg Switzerland, the University Libraries and the Fribourg

County Library (BCU-KUB) are co-hosting this year's open access week events.

We're getting the word out about open access and it's impact on faculties.

Included in our plans is a panel discussion entitled "Open Access: What

You Should Know" and flyers encouraging them to use the University’s

institutional repository RERO DOC (… Continue

Added by University of Fribourg (CH) on October 17, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

QUT Launches an eprint competition in OA Week

One of the events planned for OA week at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia is the lauch of an 'Eprint Competition' that will be open to all academic staff and research students. At the end of the competition period, there will be prizes awarded based on number of full-text items deposited. There will be additional prizes for best anecdotes about how the University's repository has helped. This week, QUT will also be hosting two Open… Continue

Added by Paula Callan on October 17, 2010 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Short animated video on open access

Free Animated Video - To celebrate International Open Access Week 2010, an event taking place from October 18 to October 24, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has partnered with the McGill University Library to produce an advocacy video on the issues of open access. To celebrate International Open Access Week 2010, an event taking place from October 18 to October 24, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has partnered with the McGill University Library… Continue

Added by Kathleen Shearer on October 17, 2010 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

Open Access - A Trialogue between authors, publishers and librarians

In November in Melbourne, Australia. See the blog site at http://openaccess.caval.edu.au/

Wednesday November 17th 2010

RMIT Library seminar room

2.00 – 4.00 PM

Panellists include University Librarians: Ralph Kiel (VU), Philip Kent (UniMelb), Craig Anderson (RMIT), Publishers Louise Adler (MUP), Heather Crosbie (Informit) and Graeme Connelly (UM Bookshop) and…

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Added by Michael Wood on October 17, 2010 at 2:29am — No Comments

Open Access Fun Guerrilla Activism, or How to Hijack an STM Conference

Originally posted here on my blog McBlawg, September 2007 as 'Conference Report'.

I nicked the title for this repost from Heather Morrison who was one of the first to blog about it.

(This is my 1st blog post here, so please excuse some formatting… Continue

Added by Graham Steel on October 16, 2010 at 5:45am — No Comments

Introducing the DOAJ blog

Welcome to the DOAJ blog!

During Open Access week the DOAJ team members are about to make a first…

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Added by Directory of OA Journals (DOAJ) on October 15, 2010 at 2:43am — No Comments

OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders

University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week.

On October 18,… Continue

Added by Stevan Harnad on October 15, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Activities by e-ciencia project (Comunidad de Madrid, Spain) for OAW2010

The e-ciencia open access project -in which public regional administration, public universities in Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) cooperate for promotion of open access and development of IRs- is organising a set of activities for OAW2010, http://bit.ly/d3Hqz1 (English version).

Main event will be a round table on open access to be held on Wed Oct 20th with scholars from different institutions that belong to the…

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Added by Pablo de Castro on October 15, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

The African Journal Archive supports Open Access Week 18-24 October 2010

The African Journal Archive is pleased to be able to support Open Access week (18-24 October 2010). The project is collecting journals published exclusively in Africa and about Africa, with a focus on the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The Archive contains issues digitised retrospectively back to the first issue The…

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Added by Merle Ruff on October 15, 2010 at 12:49am — No Comments