King Abdulaziz Foundation (Darah) adopts Open Access policy. During the universal open access week (22-28 Oct 2018) offering 23 books via Darah Store permanently. …

The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) is a membership organization that has been working since 2011 to advance the promotion, passage, and implementation of Open Access policies at institutions of higher education. Membership in COAPI now includes over 100 institutions. Membership carries no dues and is open to all North American institutions with policies in place, or those working to pass policies. The COAPI website at (…

As open policies and practices become more the norm, there has been considerable debate on the topic of open access publishing. This debate has highlighted a lack of common understanding of what open access is, why it is important, and how it works. To address this misunderstanding, Medical Publishing Insights & Practices (MPIP)* is launching 2 initiatives during Open Access Week 2018.

1. MPIP Open Access…

It's OA week once more - time to offer up my annual personal perspective because for me, this week represents eleven years of commitment to our collective efforts to liberate knowledge. 

This time last year,…

In the current academic journal publishing system, a handful of corporate publishers control over 50% of the scholarly literature. Corporate publishers have outsized influence over how scholarship is produced and…

An important goal of this year’s theme for International Open Access Week is to encourage ongoing discussion about how we build equity into the foundation of systems for producing and distributing knowledge. This year has been marked by important developments that underscore that the shift toward open is well underway, and the discussions this week around the intersection of open and equity come at an important time, as…

[Reblogged from http://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/open-access-information-for-academics/]

For Open Access Week 2018, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that cover the basics of Open Access for academic researchers. We hope they give you the tools to navigate this vital subject with confidence.

What OA…

http://blogs.sun.ac.za/antarcticlegacy/2018/10/22/open-access-repository-for-the-antarctic-legacy-of-south-africa-ongoing-for-more-than-a-decade-and-still-growing/…

At the University of Tennessee Libraries, our Open Access Week events for the past two years involved outreach workshops to local nonprofit agencies. Staff from many nonprofit organizations visited campus and our subject librarians helped them find research and data to help in designing interventions and writing grant proposals. Then, we asked the nonprofits to fill out a survey and/or participate in a short interview about why open access to research matters to them and to the communities…

The Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository(JPCOAR) has made a special webpage dedicated to support the

Japanese community in designing posters, handouts and other graphics for this year's Open Access Week.

Along with the official JPCOAR Open Access Week poster, we also have templates our members can use and edit to

include information on their own efforts towards Open Access.

We will be adding more photos of Open Access Week giveaways and events hosted by our…

Aderiamo alla “OA WEEK 2018”, per promuovere le risorse open access e l’accesso agli open data per il fact checking autonomo dei cittadini, lanciamo il primo “Crowd-SEArching BiblioVerifica”, si tratta di uno spazio partecipativo per proporre siti e fonti utili per la verifica delle informazioni, orientando gli utenti della rete ai linked open data e alla citizen science in ogni campo di ricerca: il modulo e’ liberamente fruibile da pc, tablet, smartphone dal 22 al 28 ottobre 2018…

ゴビ砂漠やタクラマカン砂漠がどうしてできたんだろう？

この事実と歴史をきちんと見据えてきたのは山の上においやられた少数民族の人たちである。

焼き畑による乱開発で砂漠にした張本人は古代中国帝国だ。

これににた愚行を今、世界のメガジャーナルが行おうとし、高騰しつづけるジャーナルの販売利益だけを自分達のものにして、メガジャーナル出版社に責任を転嫁しているのが、世界の名だたる学会、つまり大学の教員と研究所のOTAKUたちである。

だが、アクセスできればいい、自分たちの研究さえなんとかなってくれｒたなら、

このセリフをそのまま経済学に翻訳すれば

「恐慌よ、ぜったいに来ないでくれ、私の所だけには」

という独占資本の論理とまったく同じ理屈が出てくる。この理屈はもうすでに「マルクス以後」という現代において解決・克服されたのではなかったのか。

大学図書館の予算はひっ迫している…

McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is partnering with eCampusOntario to celebrate Open Access Week. See the full schedule of events for Open Day at McMaster, Oct. 25, 2018.

The 2nd SPARC Japan Seminar 2018 entitled "Quality Control in the Age of Open Science" will be held on 25 October, hosted by SPARC Japan, in keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge”. We will discuss perspective of quality control in the age of Open Science and how we could guarantee quality of contents. We…

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