October 23 - 29, 2017 | Everywhere
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In conjunction with this year’s Open Access Week Advisory Committee, SPARC today announces the theme for this year’s 10th International Open Access Week, to be held October 23-29, will be “Open in order to…”.
This year’s theme is an invitation to answer the question of what…
ContinuePosted by Nick Shockey on April 24, 2017 at 11:30am
Training-the-Trainers of Open Access
The Open Access landscape is changing. As advocates, we ought to be up-to-date with these changes. This is about the Train-the-Trainer platform adopted for Nairobi’s Open Access Week 2016. Inspired by this year’s Open Access Week theme, Open in Action, I thought of a platform where researchers, librarians, students and others who have committed to working in Open could share their experiences on…
ContinuePosted by Lilian Juma on February 20, 2017 at 6:00am
What better way to take action during Open Access Week than by starting a request for an article or dataset you need? The Open Access Button is here to help!
The Open Access Button has released a new Button for Open Access Week - a simpler, more effective way to get find and request research with the press of a button.
Find and request articles and…
ContinuePosted by Chealsye Bowley on October 28, 2016 at 8:31am
Most papers that are free-to-read are available thanks to “green OA” copies posted in institutional or subject repositories. The fact these copies are available for free is fantastic because anyone can read the research, but it does present a major challenge: given the DOI of a paper, how can we find the open version, given there are so many different…
ContinuePosted by The Impactstory team on October 28, 2016 at 7:30am
During the last eight years, the Obama Administration has embodied this year’s theme of “Open in Action.” The president and his team came into office with a strong public commitment to open government, and have demonstrated a commitment to open science as part of that agenda. As we approach the 2016 presidential election, the Center for Open Data Enterprise, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, is working to ensure that open science…
ContinuePosted by Katherine Garcia on October 27, 2016 at 10:00am
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 85 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 (…
ContinuePosted by COAPI Steering Committee on October 27, 2016 at 9:00am
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Tuesday
October 10, 2017 from 2pm to 3pm – United States of America
Open access journals remove the price and permission barriers that limit the reach of scholarship. Join a panel of editors, authors, and librarians for a conversation on getting published in top open…
Organized by Mahrya Carncross | Type: discussion, panel
Sunday
October 22, 2017 to October 27, 2017 – France
La semaine de l'Open Access Week est l'occasion de mettre en avant des archives sonores libres de droit ou qui sont dédiées avant l'heure au domaine public. Les fichiers placés en CC-0 sur SoundCloud…
Organized by Véronique Ginouvès | Type: ecouter, et, enrichir, les, archives, sonores, de, la, recherche
Monday
October 23, 2017 to October 29, 2017 – Finland
How pioneering research in Open Access Monitoring was plagiarised and ransacked by JISC and associates to syphon public funding and passed off for original work,
Organized by Open Access Monitor | Type: factchecking, event
October 23, 2017 at 8am to October 29, 2017 at 5pm – Cuba
We launched a contest to the academic community to suggest of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.
Organized by Central Library of the University of Havana | Type: contest
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