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.…

La semaine internationale du libre accès (Open access week)  est devenue le rendez-vous annuel du monde scientifique consacré aux enjeux économiques et éthiques de la publication scientifique et aux nouvelles pratiques de la science ouverte. 

Dans le cadre de cet  événement  qui se tient  du 23 au 27…

Publishing open access provides greater visibility, leads to more citations and helps develop research on a global scale. We asked early career researcher …

At this week's SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City, MO two Innovation Fair participants presented projects to get more people involved in Open Access Week.

One from Robyn Hall at MacEwan University Library - she created an Open Access Comedy Festival to draw people.

And one from Fred Roscoe…

At this week's SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City, MO two Innovation Fair participants presented projects to get more people involved in Open Access Week.

One from Robyn Hall at MacEwan University Library - she created an Open Access Comedy Festival to draw people.

And one from Fred Roscoe…

Greetings, all! I have two big questions for the Open Access community:

1) What type font does Open Access use in its logo? If possible, I'd like to match it in some of the fan art I'm making for the big week.

2) How do you translate the seminal phrase 'Set the default to open' in other languages? I'd like to start with Spanish ('Establecer el valor predeterminado a abierto') but I…

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 2013 on Monday October 21^st 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 for those who cannot attend in person. The event will also be recorded, and be available to the community for use during and after local Open Access…

Hoy viernes 12 de abril 2913, UNESCO anunció que recibirá hasta el jueves 18 de abril, propuestas de los países de América Latina y el Caribe para brindar pequeños apoyos complementarios para:

1) Materiales de sensibilización sobre el acceso abierto, preparados para América Latina y el Caribe.  Quienes pueden entregar en pocas semanas materiales que sean de utilidad para toda la región, pueden enviar a Bhanu Neupane <b.neupane@unesco.org> con copia a Hara Padhy…

This year  for the Open Access Week, the University of Liege (ULg) and its Library have launched a large campaign for information:

•  An interactive video produced by the WebTV ULg - to be seen from 22 October on YouTube, the University website and on the institutional repository ORBi.

• Systematic contact of ULg researchers who deposit their full texts in…

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…

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…

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…

WE ARE JIDC, The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries – Pleased to meet you!

We are JIDC, the Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.  We are an Open Access Journal and proud to be Open Access and participating in International Open Access Week.  Our non-for-profit journal publishes peer-reviewed papers focusing on medical and biomedical research studies that affect health and medicine in…

To celebrate the appointment of Dr. Rory McGreal as the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER), Athabasca University is presenting a series of five noon hour webcasts exploring major issues and opportunities presented by OER. Each session will feature an internationally known promoter and developer of open educational resources, research, or ideas.…