Upcoming Events

Mendeley: Social Networking for Your Research



Monday, October 22, 12 noon to 1 pm



Ballroom, William Pitt Union



Mendeley is an academic social network and citation manager that helps scholars organize research, collaborate online, and discover the latest research. With Mendeley, faculty and students can create citations and bibliographies, read and annotate papers, and make…

Open Access Week 2012

Open Notebook Science: Transparency in Research

Jean-Claude Bradley

General Lecture

Date: October 23, 2012

Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 1116 Seminar Room

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

This event is FREE and open to the public. 

Cross-posted from http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/r2rc-open-access-week-planning-webcast.shtml.

When: Thursday, September 27th at 1:30pm EDT, 7:30pm CET

Registration is free, but required. After registering, you will receive login instructions the day before the event.…

@mire is back on board as an advocate sponsor for SPARC's International Open Access Week. During the week of October 22nd, institutions from all across the globe put an emphasis on free access to research outputs. Some institutions put together large conferences, other organizations apply more grassroots advocacy efforts and guerilla marketing. In order to support the community in spreading the word last year, we sent out free "Ask me about Open…

We had a good OA week inspriation session last week. Eight universities shared their plans and ideas for their local activities during the Open Access week 2012.

SURF will be coordinating the national program of local activities again. Soon to be available on www.openaccess.nl.

We had a good OA week inspriation session last week. Eight universities shared their plans and ideas for their local activities during the Open Access week 2012.

SURF will be coordinating the national program of local activities again. Soon to be available on www.openaccess.nl.

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2012

We take pleasure in announcing that Early Bird Registration (ZAR 3 300,00) for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference - to be…

Networked Researcher is a UK-based academic publishing and networking platform with an international outlook.

Our main goal is to support and promote digital scholarship and researcher development through the critical engagement with online technologies.

In a breakthrough for Africa, the 10^th annual Berlin Open Access Conference will be taking place on the continent for the first time later this year, with Stellenbosch University (SU) as host.

The prestigious gathering will be taking place at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) from 7 to 8 November. It will be preceded by a preconference on the practical implementation of open access principles on 6 November.

Read more…

In its endeavor to promote a research community marking the 2012 Open Access celebrations,Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) libraries will be advocating for more I.R. articles and honoring those who have contributed to our "e-resource of the month platform".The week will also be comprised of presentations which include:

1.Demystifying fears and myths surrounding open access writting

2.Open access publishing

3.Benefits of open access intiatives

4.Our…

Well, the fall semester madness has begun and, with it, our plans for OA Week are taking shape! We decided to expand OA Week into OA Month, this year, simply because this allows us greater flexibility in planning, plus we want to do more on each of the three Mason campuses.

We are hosting four main events, one in each week of October. The first and third weeks, I'll be giving a talk at two different campuses on the publishing process, with a focus on Open Access journals. The purpose…

Below is information for our upcoming webcast. Please use the comment section below to leave your comments and questions for our panelists. 

Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open Educational Resources

 

Another free SPARC online event

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

12:00 - 1:00PM EDT (…

Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) supports Open Access in the agricultural domain through the promotion of methodologies and good practices to enhance the accessibility and visibility or research data in agriculture and related sciences.

During the Open Access Week 2012, AIMS will focus on the theme "Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly…

JKUAT INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY (IR) SENSITISATION WORKSHOP

JKUAT Library plans to sensitize the JKUAT community on the JKUAT OA policy and IR. The first workshop will be held on 14^th September 2012 and will be targeting Teaching staff and researchers, editors, ICT staff JKUSO representatives, BPS representative, JKUAT IR policy committee, Campus representatives. The second workshop will be targeting JKUAT management and will be combined with a launch of the…

P.S. on the following: Mark Patterson (eLife Managing Executive Editor), Ian Mulvany (our head of technology), and I will also be on hand. We look forward to having you!

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eLife is holding an online Open House to share news on the development of its anticipated open-access journal for the very best in life science and…

We are pleased to announce that the draft programme for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference is now available. To view the programme, click here.

This Conference wishes to bring together internationally recognised speakers and Open Access experts from all disciplines. Some of the key speakers to present include:

- Dr Horst Freitag (Ambassador, German Embassy, South Africa)

- Prof Russel Botman (Rector…

Washington, DC – SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012 on Monday October 22nd in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the state of the art World Bank facilities and will host a Liveblog and Webcast via live.worldbank.org for those who cannot attend in person. The event…

6 November 2012 Berlin 10 OA Pre-conference workshop: Publishing journals using OJS by Kevin Stranack (PKP), SU, UNESCO, SPARC (max. 40 delegates). More info at http://www.berlin10.org/workshops/16-workshops/73-w03.html

Target group: Existing journal editors interested in converting their 'traditional' printed journal to online and/or Open Access.

Enquiries:…

Maldives Digital Library has been officially launched

Project objectives

The general objective of the Project is to assist libraries of the Maldives in materializing automation of library services, thereby improving the overall service provision within and…

More Than One Road Leads to Rome - An interview with Jan Velterop