Open Access Week is a great opportunity to highlight open-access publications, milestones and achievements, and for publishers to consider how Open Access can help increase the impact of what they publish.

• The Public Library of Science has been a very active participant in Open Access Week since its second year, promoting participation around the world and using the event to highlight the birthdays of its two flagship journals – PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology.
• For OAWeek 2009, the Indian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched two open-access journals.
• Also in 2009, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers’ Association (OASPA) got together with cross-sector partners in the UK to host events.

Information for publishers interested in exploring an open-access distribution model can learn more through SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher) and OASIS (http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...).