Open Access Week

A global event, now in its 7th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.

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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Ana Cristina Santos Pérez and Jean-Louis Rivard joined Open Access Week

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Andrea Higginbotham posted blog posts

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Coen van Laer updated their profile

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Zita Balogh, Nomusa Senzanje, Gerardo Belmont Luna and 11 more joined Open Access Week

Mar 3

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Poster for Mike Carroll event at Pitt, October 24, 2013

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Andrea Higginbotham posted a blog post

Watch the SPARC Open Access Meeting LIVE

CLICK to watch liveWashington, DC – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is pleased to announce panel topics and to invite participants to register for the Spring event set to take place in Kansas City, Missouri on March 3-4, 2014.The past year has seen growing momentum on many fronts of the movement towards "open". Advances in the areas of open access, open…See More

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Amor DEGAICHIA and Mohamed Montassar BEN SLAMA are now friends

Mar 2

Tony Stamatoplos updated their profile

Feb 28

Carlos Villanueva commented on Silvia Gutiérrez's group Open Access Mexico

"Hola a toda la comunidad, me gustaría solicitar a quien desee participar, con un breve comentario acerca de el acceso abierto, la finalidad es publicar una especie sed testimonios en el proximo sitio Open Access de la UANL. me lo pueden…"

Feb 12

OA@Pitt posted photos

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Rakesh Kumar, MMAKHUTSO MPHAHLELE, Deschamps Thibaut and 7 more joined Open Access Week

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tshepo and Donald A. Light joined Open Access Week

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Events

OA Mandates and OA Global OA Growth

June 21, 2014 to June 26, 2014 – Copenhagen, Denmark

Web Science and the Mind

July 7, 2014 to July 18, 2014 – Cognitive Sciences Institute, Université du Québec à Montréal, UQàM, Montrèal

Blog Posts

SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair Projects Showcase OA Week ideas

At this week's SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City, MO two Innovation Fair participants presented projects to get more people involved in Open Access Week.

One from Robyn Hall at MacEwan University Library - she created an Open Access Comedy Festival to draw people.

And one from Fred Roscoe…

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Posted by Andrea Higginbotham on March 7, 2014 at 2:57pm

SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair Projects Showcase OA Week ideas

At this week's SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City, MO two Innovation Fair participants presented projects to get more people involved in Open Access Week.

One from Robyn Hall at MacEwan University Library - she created an Open Access Comedy Festival to draw people.

And one from Fred Roscoe…

Continue

Posted by Andrea Higginbotham on March 7, 2014 at 2:57pm

Watch the SPARC Open Access Meeting LIVE

CLICK to watch live

Washington, DC – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is pleased to announce panel topics and to invite participants to register for the Spring event set to take place in Kansas City, Missouri on March 3-4, 2014.

The past year has seen growing momentum on many fronts of the movement towards "open". Advances in the…

Continue

Posted by Andrea Higginbotham on March 3, 2014 at 10:31am

CGIAR: Now Officially Open Access

CGIAR – the global research partnership for a food-secure future (www.cgiar.org) – has long been known as a leader in agricultural research for development (AR4D); but not necessarily considered a leader in easy, free, and open access to its research results and data. But this has changed. With a process that started in April 2012…

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Posted by Piers Bocock on December 6, 2013 at 4:18am