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Save the date! October 22nd SPARC and the World Bank Announce Open Access Week 2012 Kickoff Webcast

Save the date: October 22, 2012 in Washington, DC and Online



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…

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Added by Nick Shockey on August 27, 2012 at 3:55am — No Comments

Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference!

Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, to be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa  from 7-8 November 2012. Registration is also open for Pre-conference Workshops to be presented on 6 November 2012.  The theme of the Conference is Networked scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access. The programme will be made available on the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference…

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Added by University of Stellenbosch on July 31, 2012 at 4:26am — No Comments

Webcast Reminder: 2012 OA Week Kick Off Webinar Tuesday June 19!

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces this year's theme is "Set the Default to Open Access" for Open Access Week (October 22 – 28, 2012). Our first online event to launch this year’s events will be a webcast with three speakers who will showcase the state of open access in each of their countries.

Please join us Tuesday June 19th at 10am Eastern US Time! RSVP at …

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Added by Nick Shockey on June 15, 2012 at 3:30am — No Comments

Open Access Week 2012 - October 22-28th - Let's get started!

Welcome and hello from SPARC! We are looking forward to another action-packed OA Week on October 22-28th!

It’s been an amazing year for Open Access across the globe so what better way to continue progress than to get inspired for your own OA Week events! Use our many downloadable files available to personalize your own events with posters, stickers, and tons of OA information. It’s…

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Added by Nick Shockey on May 14, 2012 at 4:27am — 1 Comment

Advances in Open Access à la Nature Publishing Group

Advances in Open Access à la Nature Publishing Group

http://blog.mysciencework.com/en/2012/04/17/advances-in-open-access-a-la-nature-publishing-group.html

With its recent launch of Light: Science and Applications, an open access (OA) physical sciences journal, and several more OA…

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Added by MyScienceWork on April 24, 2012 at 11:08pm — No Comments

Understanding of Open Access

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…

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Added by Nicolaie Constantinescu on March 19, 2012 at 11:59pm — No Comments

First Announcement: Berlin 10 Open Access Conference to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the prestigious Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This will be the…

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Added by University of Stellenbosch on January 25, 2012 at 4:40am — No Comments

The top 20 countries for scientific output

There are a number of reasons why some countries publish more than others but it is no real surprise that the USA produces the most scientific papers. Over the period 1999-2009 there were 2.9 million scientific papers published in the USA according to Essential Science Indicators at Thomson Reuters (see infographic) (http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2009/09decALL/). This is considerably more than the next two countries in the top 20…

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Added by Jo Young on November 1, 2011 at 2:34am — No Comments

The Publication Paradox

This week is Open Access Week (follow #oaweek on Google+ and Twitter), and while I've…

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Added by Raymond Johnson on October 29, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Dutch Malaria Foundation supports Open Access

The Dutch Malaria Foundation was founded in 2010. We are committed to a world without malaria. We want to achieve this by combining integrated, responsible pest control with…

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Added by Tom Olijhoek on October 27, 2011 at 3:00am — No Comments

Open Access Week @ the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

If anyone is in the area, come by and say hi!

 

The Lied Library is hosting two scholarly communication presentations for

Faculty & Graduate Students:



Monday, October 24, noon to 1 (Amargosa Room)

“Discover Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research”…

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Added by Marianne Buehler on October 20, 2011 at 4:29am — No Comments

IFLAs Open Access Task Force established

Following  the endorsement of IFLA's Statement on Open Access by the Governing Board, April 18th 2011—and the subsequent approval  from the Governing Board during the WLIC in Puerto Rico August 2011 of a number  of key initiatives—IFLA's Open Access Taskforce has been established.

The  taskforce will work on the following issues:

  1. Advocate  for the adoption and…
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Added by Lars Bjørnshauge on October 17, 2011 at 4:05am — No Comments

Networking Research as Paradigm Shift: Opening the Door

"It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment."

-Franz Kafka, 'Before the Law'

I know: that term, 'paradigm shift'. It embodies its own contradiction: easier said than done.

Declarative rather than performative. Simply saying it does not make it…

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Added by Ernesto Priego on July 26, 2011 at 3:29am — No Comments

On Collaborative Blogging as Open Access Scholarly Activity. The Case of The Comics Grid.

A longer version of this post was originally published in two parts by PhD2Published on 12 July 2011 and…
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Added by Ernesto Priego on July 19, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Our Best Defense: Open Access

From my blog "Copyright on Campus"

Is academia at war with the publishing industry? Today, University of Michigan Dean of Libraries Paul Courant wrote that publishers have declared war upon us. Columbia University's James Neal…

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Added by Christine Fruin on June 15, 2011 at 3:18am — No Comments

New Mandated OA Advantage Findings Extended 2002-2009



Yassine Gargouri & Steven Harnad…



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Added by yassine gargouri on October 25, 2010 at 4:26am — No Comments

Open Access Week gets to the LIS Romanian professionals

Dear friends,



Kosson Community (virtual library community@ www.kosson.ro) has put together an informational material with the most important information with regards to the global event and also containing the Romanian translation of Berlin Declaration.

The PDF version may be downloaded from… Continue

Added by Nicolaie Constantinescu on October 21, 2010 at 12:01am — No Comments

Digital.CSIC celebrates the Open Access Week 2010

Digital.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council, has prepared a number of activities to celebrate open access to scientific information, including a new web site, a study on the perception and degree of participation of CSIC researchers in the open access movement, a brochure, in partnership with… Continue

Added by Isabel Bernal on October 19, 2010 at 4:00am — 4 Comments

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