The Department of Library Services (DLS) invites you to attend the University of Pretoria (UP) Open Access Colloquium 2021, "It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”, that will take place on the 25th & 26th of October 2021.

The Colloquium will feature presentations on Open Access scholarship from leading academic publishers. An invitation to both days is attached to this article. We ask that you please register to…

https://kisti.re.kr/…

TRIBUNE: "Open-access socio-humanities and biomedical journals - experiences, dilemmas, challenges in the 21st century"

Organizer: Faculty of Philosophy, "Ss. Cyril and Methodius University" - Skopje, Macedonia

Co-organizers: Macedonian Association of Medical Editors and SPIROSKI Scientific Foundation, Skopje, Macedonia

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Mirko Spiroski, Prof. Dr. Doncho Donev, Prof. Dr. Gordana Ristovska, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski

Initiator / Organizer: Prof.…

Are you a Green and Gold imposter? Do you nod you head and smile when anyone mentions Open Access – hoping they will not ask you any questions. You are not alone – unless you are working with the terminology, the funders, the policies everyday – it feels too confusing and unnecessary to listen properly now when you can do it tomorrow.

 Advocacy is our bread and butter here in the Research Engagement team at the University of Southampton and we want to raise the awareness level in Open…

Wow! It was really great to host the very first Open Access Week at University of Nigeria, Nsukka which was on 24th October, 2017. The event was organised by a group of Open Access Advocates ranging from Librarians, Pharmacists, Scientists and other lecturers who think that scholarship has come to a point where research data and related resources should be…

Amid the daily hubbub, we don’t always get the opportunity to have deep discussions about all of the information swirling around concerning the present and future state of OA. OA Week is a time to come together to do so, and this year’s theme,…

 A year on from our first book title the University of Westminster Press to celebrate international open access week is running a competition for a free print copy of any of our six published book titles* for two winners.…

The open access–journal publishing trend has hit the world of academic book publishing. The traditional business model for monograph publishing is lagging behind the others in the industry, and academic publishers are becoming more and more selective about the books they agree to publish. This, in turn, has a huge effect on first-time authors and…

I would want to post what the University of Nigeria Open Access Group is doing. We are a group of Librarians, Lecturers, Scientists and Postgraduate Students dedicated to advocating Open Access in Nigeria, with University of Nigeria Nsukka as our starting point. This group was birthed in March, 2017 after the founder of Open Access Nigeria, Dr. Ahmed Ogunlaja visited the University for a meeting with …

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) represents South Africa in the international community of science academies, and part of its mission is to proactively and reactively embark on a programme of systematic studies of evidence-based issues of national importance. As a signatory to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to…

For Open Access Week 2015, Ursula C. Schwerin Library (New York City College of Technology, CUNY) is highlighting our college's own open access journal, NANO: New American Notes Online. Why did NANO's editor and founder, Sean Scanlan, opt to make his journal open access?

Who are we? City Tech is…

It is Open Access Week  on October 19 - 25, 2015 and LSHTM is taking part with a number of activities across the School.

Kicking off events on Monday, John Murtagh, Manager of LSHTM Research Online will give a briefing on how researchers can make their work Open Access without having to pay for it via the Gold Open Access route. Over 90% of journals allow a final draft version of the paper to be self-archived in a research…

      To support the 'International Open Access Week' event observed all over the world, IIA library has designed a poster.  This poster is available for viewing in the following URL,



http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/6423

The previous year’s OA week celebration at IIA also can be…

The University of Bath in the UK is celebrating International Open Access Week with a mini-conference around the theme of Innovations in Publishing.  Lightning talks will be presented on altmetrics, open peer review, OA for early career researchers, and more.  See our blog post at: http://unibathlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/open-access-week-event-save-the-date/

The University of Salamanca participates, again this year, in Open Access Week. The scheduled activities aim to make known the initiatives developed  to open access in the USAL  (Institutional Repository Gredos, University Open Access Journals and Open Course Ware).  At the same time it aims to increase the involvement of researchers in the open…

For the first time, the University of North Texas is participating in International Open Access Week, and the Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and Libraries are taking the lead!  DiSCo and the Libraries are teaming up with the College of Information and the Honors College, and UNT's Research and Visualization Environment (RAVE), to offer educational programming about the importance of OA @ UNT. There are four major events planned - a faculty panel, a student…

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…

Dear colleagues,

The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania.

To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched. It is a document with a double significance: “understanding” as a consensual agreement among the signatories and “understanding” meaning a good apprehension of the concepts behind…