OA Week Events

* Planning an OAW event? Post your event details to the OA Week section of the Open Access Directory.

* Looking for OAW events to attend? Browse the same section of the OAD, which is organized by region.
* Want to see what people did last year for ideas for this year? Check out last year's archive.

 

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Open Science Panama Declaration: Latin America going beyond Open Access

Last Monday October 22nd a group of advocates and civil Society organizations, called by Fundación Karisma, met

at Panama City to discuss the role of Open Science in Latin America’s development. Among the participants there

were a variety of activists and researchers on digital rights, citizen science, open access, free software and open

education from at least eleven countries. Our main goal: to elaborate…

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Posted by Ivonne Lujano on October 24, 2018 at 11:00pm

Feeling Part of Something

I believe that all of us, in one way or another, seek to feel part of something, be it a group of friends, an activity, or an idea of our own or shared with others. However, how can we be part of something when this interconnected world allows us to reach all places but omits the particular culture of each of those societies? How can we participate and try to communicate if our languages are different? This is a challenge not only in our spoken languages, but also in our technological,…
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Posted by Ricardo Antonio Hartley on October 23, 2018 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

COAPI: Making Open Access Policies Work

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 (…

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Posted by COAPI Steering Committee on October 22, 2018 at 2:00pm

SPARC’s Efforts to Help "Design Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"

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…

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Posted by Nick Shockey on October 22, 2018 at 1:30pm

From Statistics to Humans with a Voice

Earlier this year I visited Área Reconquista, a poor heavily polluted neighbourhood in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, with a group of people who have an interest in community science. We were planning to co-develop an open project on air quality monitoring…
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Posted by Julieta Arancio on October 22, 2018 at 8:30am

Theme of 2018 International Open Access Week To Be “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge”

The 2018 Open Access Week Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the theme for the 2018 International Open Access Week, to be held October 22-28, will be “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge.”

This year’s theme…

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Posted by Nick Shockey on May 24, 2018 at 12:30pm

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Genital Anomalies

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Watch OSCARS 2019 Live - The 91st Academy Awards 2019 Online stream

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Library Roadshow at Kazakhstan

October 17, 2018 all day
Dedicated to NU Research Day the Library Roadshow performed the showcase of services and resources that support the research activities at NU. https://nu-kz.libcal.com/event/3351009 Nazarbayev University #NULibrary #nuresearchday218 #libraryroadshowSee More
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OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2018 in Egypt at Egypt

November 10, 2018 from 10am to 12pm
Lecture about Open Access to Knowledge in the 21 st Century:University Initiatives is introduced by Dr. Eman Ramadan, Director of Digital Library at the Cairo University, Central library.The objective of the event held in Nov 10, 2018, organized by ELA: Egyptian Libraries Association  in collaboration with New Central Library-Cairo University, is to celebrate open access week.See More
Nov 23, 2018
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Evenement IMT Atlantique sur le Libre Acces à partir du 8 novembre at France

November 8, 2018 to November 20, 2018
A l'occasion de la semaine internationale 2018 du Libre Accès, les chercheurs d'IMT Atlantique sont invités à :1/ une présentation sur le sujet,  jeudi 8 novembre, retransmise en visio sur les 3 campus voir salles sur l'intranet.10h-10h15 :– rappels des contextes français, européens de l’open access, plan S– exemples de pratiques d’établissements– focus sur les épi-revues(Nathalie Fontaine)10h15-10h30 :– open access : point de vu du chercheur(Hervé Grall)10h30-11h : vos questions, vos idées…See More
Nov 13, 2018
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ICOA'18, International Conference on Open Access

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd International Conference on Open Access ICOA'18 from 28 until 30 November 2018 in Rabat, Morroco. The theme of this conference is: "Open Access to Science: Foundations, Issues and Dynamics".…
Nov 10, 2018
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Open Access Week 2018: the Hamburg State and University Library is on board at Germany

October 24, 2018 to October 28, 2018
Blogseries and overview  of the library's Open Access activitiesBlogposts (German):Open Access - free access to scientific knowledgeOpen Access and Libraries: the activities of the StabiOpen Access publishing in the Humanities using FID Romance Studies as an exampleDigital Cultural…See More
Nov 9, 2018
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Open Science Week at the University of Debrecen at Hungary

November 12, 2018 at 2pm to November 13, 2018 at 4pm
Szeretettel meghívjuk Önt kétnapos rendezvényünkre, november 12-én és 13-án 14 és 16 óra között. Az esemény első napján szakmai előadások tekinthetők meg, a második napon pedig egy interaktív beszélgetésre invitáljuk Önöket. …See More
Nov 8, 2018
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Celebration International Open Access Week with a series of program at Bangladesh

October 23, 2018 to October 24, 2018
East West University Library celebrated Open Access Week from 23 October 2018 to 24 October 2018 with a series of program including Awareness Building Campaign using Library's social network window and Quiz Competition among university community.See More
Nov 6, 2018
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Nov 5, 2018
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OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2018 in Egypt at 12

November 10, 2018 from 10am to 12pm
Lecture about Open Access to Knowledge in the 21 st Century:University Initiatives is introduced by Dr. Eman Ramadan, Director of Digital Library at the Cairo University, Central library.The objective of the event held in Nov 10, 2018, organized by ELA: Egyptian Libraries Association  in collaboration with New Central Library-Cairo University, is to celebrate open access week.See More
Nov 5, 2018
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Nov 1, 2018
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Challenges for strengthening South-South cooperation in open access scholarly communications at Argentina

November 21, 2018 from 2pm to 4pm
https://www.clacso.org.ar/conferencia2018/index.phpSesión UNESCO (en inglés): “Challenges for strengthening South-South cooperation in open access scholarly communications" Coordina: Bhanu Neupane, UNESCO, ParisPanelistas: - Latin…See More
Oct 29, 2018
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OA Week at Gdansk University of Technology at Poland

October 15, 2018 at 6am to October 28, 2018 at 12pm
The Library at Gdansk University of Technology has organized or co-organizedPresentation of the film „Paywall: The Business of Scholarship” that promotes OA to scientific publications (https://tinyurl.com/ycugz7w8);Open Day of the Project of the  Gdansk University of Technology Repositoryj #MOSTWiedzy (the Bridge of Knowledge (…See More
Oct 26, 2018
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OA and CC hands-on training at Pomeranian University in Słupsk at Poland

October 22, 2018 to October 28, 2018
The Pomeranian University in Słupsk organizes laboratory workshops for first-year students of the faculties of Mathematics and Management. Students will learn how to find, use and quote OA resources, understand selected aspects of copyright and CC licenses.See More
Oct 26, 2018
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