Welcome to Open Access Week!
Learn. Share. Advance
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward.
Get involved. Participating in Open Access Week can be as simple or involved as you like. It can also be a chance to let your imagination have full rein and come up with something more ambitious, wacky, fun.
OA Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes on the local level. Universities, colleges, research institutes, funding agencies, libraries, and think tanks have used Open Access Week as a platform to host faculty votes on campus open-access policies, to issue reports on the societal and economic benefits of Open Access, to commit new funds in support of open-access publication, and more.
Learn more about what you can do.
Ready for action?
FIRST, sign up at http://www.openaccessweek.org for access to all the support and resources you need, and to connect with the worldwide OA Week community.
For examples of how others are advancing Open Access and taking action during The Week, click here if you’re a: RESEARCH FUNDER | RESEARCHER/FACULTY MEMBER | ADMINISTRATOR | PUBLISHER | STUDENT | LIBRARIAN
OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2010 is being developed with the advice of an international panel of advisers.
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Comment by ERGUN ATES on November 7, 2011 at 10:29am
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Thx. I am with you!
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Comment by Muhumuza on October 26, 2011 at 5:37am -
This is a good educating site but i have failed to access today's Webinar. But all the same am following the events. Thanx
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Comment by Brian Kelly on October 20, 2011 at 3:08pm -
This page, which was about the Open Access Week for 2010, is still linked to from the About menu bar. Could you update the link to point to the blog post about this year's event in order to save confusion.
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Comment by Mark McGuire on October 16, 2011 at 5:47pm -
Dear Jennifer
Thanks for all your work with this site. A couple of the dates at the bottom of the post still read as "2010", which might confuse people.
Thanks.
Mark McGuire
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Comment by Charoibam Ibohal Singh on October 10, 2011 at 11:15am -
Thanks for approving my membership to the Open access week.
Regards
Ibohal
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Comment by Fred Friend on October 18, 2010 at 11:18am -
JISC is bringing advice on implementing open access to the attention of universities and research institutions through a series of briefing papers, interviews and web resources released each day this week on a special site http://openaccess.jisc.ac.uk/ . Opening each day's content gives you access to a video interview describing experience in open access implementation. Today's interview is with Professor Paul Curran Vice-Chancellor of City University. The schedule of topics for the week's resources is:
Monday: Putting open access policy in place
Tuesday: Making an open access policy effective
Wednesday: Funding open access developments
Thursday: Measuring the benefits of open access
Friday: Open access copyright and licensing.
All of us at JISC hope you find it useful and enjoyable.
Fred Friend
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