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DRF OAW Campaign throughout the OAWeek

In Japan, DRF (Digital Repository Federation) iｓ pushing several campaigns for Open Access Week.

1. DRF Planning and Coordinating Working Group help each institution to join open access event:

To promote an individual advocacy (through interview with researchers at each institution)
Original OA poster　　…

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Added by Ikuko TSUCHIDE on October 13, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Open Access Button

Express your affiliation with the open access movement by adding a button on your Facebook profile:

http://www.picbadges.com/open-access-movement/16494/

Added by Julio Santillán Aldana on October 13, 2010 at 1:08pm — No Comments

THERE ARE 1,000 MEMBERS OF THE OPEN ACCESS WEEK NETWORK!

http://openaccessweek.org/profiles/members/

Added by Jennifer McLennan on October 13, 2010 at 9:35am — No Comments

OA Week plans @ Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA)

It's wonderful to hear about the OA Week plans underway around the world!

At Brandeis most of our effort this year is focused on raising visibility/awareness of the OA movement in a way that is reasonably low-impact in terms of staff time commitment. Mainly we're investing our energies into a promotional blitz.

We are planning a few events, such as hosting a BibApp demo (a joint effort with the Boston Library Consortium and MBL-WHOI), offering an authors' rights workshop… Continue

Added by Jen Ferguson on October 13, 2010 at 6:56am — No Comments

Register TODAY to receive your advance copy of the official Open Access Week kick-off event, with OA pioneer Harold Varmus

Top international researchers will champion the importance of Open

Access for advancing research at an online event to launch this year’s

Open Access Week (October 18 – 24, 2010).

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Dr. Harold

Varmus will offer welcoming remarks. Varmus, a long-time champion, has

been an unparalleled leader in promoting Open Access in a succession of

key roles – from introducing the topic of wider… Continue

Added by Jennifer McLennan on October 13, 2010 at 3:49am — No Comments

Researchers learn about publishing in Open Access journals in Dutch Open Access week

Higher education sector organises workshops during International Open Access Week.…

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Added by Annemiek van der Kuil on October 12, 2010 at 11:45pm — No Comments

UNL's OA Week Plans

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the University Libraries, the Association for Students at the University of Nebraska (ASUN - student government), and the Graduate Student Association (GSA) are co-hosting this year's open access week events. We're getting the word out about open access and it's impact on students. Included in our plans is a panel discussion entitled "Open Access: What You Should Know" and a student competition. Students can e-mail their professors (CCing a special… Continue

Added by Laura Lynch on October 11, 2010 at 4:35pm — No Comments

OAPEN Library launched successfully

Press release - October 11, 2010

Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010…

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Added by OAPEN on October 11, 2010 at 4:35am — No Comments

Open Access Blog Posts for Prizes!!! Science 3.0 Blogging Contest

Science 3.0 is a rapidly growing online community of scientists and people with wide ranging interests. Discussing science with the current and future tools and concepts of information is a great endeavor we are all happy to take part in! In order to increase this emulation, we decided to launch the 'Science 3.0 Blogging Contest'.…

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Added by Science3point0.com on October 10, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Open Access Seminar

Stellenbosch University (South Africa) will be hosting a seminar on Open Access on the 20th of October 2010. Organizations all over are invited to broadcast the online seminar locally. Please register at http://oa.sun.ac.za/register.htm. Once your registration has been confirmed, we will forward you the instructions on how to follow the presentation in real time - all in the spirit of open access and sharing! The theme for this seminar…

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Added by Ina Smith on October 7, 2010 at 11:50pm — No Comments

Pledge your support to Open Access and WIN @ the University of Pretoria!

Is Open Access to research information important to you?

Tell us why in a sentence or two and add a photograph of yourself:

http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/competition.htm

You can stand a chance of winning one of our 4GB @mire USB flash drives. The winners and other interesting entries will be publicised during Open Access Week.

Eligibility: UP staff members including researchers, undergraduate… Continue

Added by Elsabe Olivier on October 7, 2010 at 8:21am — No Comments

Some OA Week events around State University of New York (USA)

Some Goings On Around SUNY (State University of New York)

The October 2010 issue of "SUNYergy, SUNY Libraries Working Together" puts the focus on Open Access Week, on events at some SUNY institutions as well as on related OA topics and developments.

http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/sunyergy/default47.htm

Featured are events… Continue

Added by John Schumacher on October 7, 2010 at 3:31am — No Comments

OER workshop was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

DREAM IT project (Development Research to Empower All Mongolians through Information and Communications Technology), supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada organized a full-day workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) on September 22, 2010 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The workshop was conducted by internationally recognized educationalists - Prof. G.Dhanarajan, Hon. Director of Institute for Research and Innovation, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia and… Continue

Added by Batbold on October 5, 2010 at 5:25am — No Comments

Open Scholarship Opens Minds

George Mason University in Virginia, USA, is hosting an OA panel on October 20, 2010. The keynote speaker for the event will be Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, who will talk about OA policies in higher education, faculty publishing choices, open courseware, and access to digitized library collections, among other things. Subsequently, four distinguished Mason faculty will share their experiences with OA publishing. Donald Seto (bioinformatics),… Continue

Added by Claudia Holland on October 5, 2010 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

Portuguese promotional materials

We have some promotional materials available in Portuguese. You can access in http://www.acessolivre.pt/semana/?page_id=179.

Under the RCAAP iniciative (Portugal Open Access Science Repository)… Continue

Added by Pedro Príncipe on October 4, 2010 at 2:53pm — No Comments

University of Massachusetts Amherst are having a series of OA events

UMass Amherst Libraries have been highly involved in Open Access Movement and participated OA Week in last two years. This year, UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events relevant to open access journal, open conference proceedings, open educational resources, open data, copyright and author rights. Please visit the event site on ScholarWorks, a digital repository of UMass Amherst, http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/

Added by Yuan Li on October 4, 2010 at 9:27am — No Comments

Leading scientists will be featured in Open Access Week kick-off event -- Pioneering Open Access advocate Harold Varmus to keynote

For immediate release

October 4, 2010

For more information, contact:

Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

(202) 296-2296

jennifer [at] arl [ dot] org

Leading scientists will be featured in Open Access Week kick-off event

Pioneering Open Access advocate Harold Varmus to keynote

Washington, DC – SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and… Continue

Added by Jennifer McLennan on October 4, 2010 at 6:06am — No Comments

Open Access Week activities in Mali.

Access to information is a capital issue for all scientific fields especially for health system. REIMICOM/KENEYA-BLOWN and the library of the faculty of medicine of the University of Bamako are

organizing some activities to celebrate the open access week for the first time

in Mali.…

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Added by Lassina DIALLO on October 4, 2010 at 5:40am — No Comments

藉由開放近用,文獻得以共享討論使用經過同儕評閱得到品質的認定對於研究者和使用者這都是一項值得推廣的活動和努力的方向

藉由開放近用,文獻得以共享討論使用
經過同儕評閱得到品質的認定
對於研究者和使用者
這都是一項值得推廣的活動和努力的方向

Added by Tina,Tshi on October 4, 2010 at 4:57am — No Comments

How good are your powers of recognition? Try our UKPMC scientist naming quiz for a chance of winning $30

Did you know...that UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides UK based (and other) biomedical and health researchers with a new view on journal articles found in PubMed? …

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Added by Paul Davey on October 3, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments