The collection of materials on open access published in PLoS journals is available through the …

Canada’s NSERC/SSHRC/CIHR Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

Executive…

Free availability of knowledge – Open Access at DLR - read more here:

http://www.dlr.de/openaccess

How far is your repository providing a comprehensive picture of your academics' research results?

Are you systematically using your wide pool of stakeholders to help you achieve your goals?

By following these five steps, you should see an increase in your

repository statistics.…

OpenUCT has some exciting Open Access Week events coming up next week at UCT:



21 October 2013: Open Access Explained! (videos)



23 October 2013: Access Challenge & OER Hacka-thon



24 October 2013: Panel Discussion - Out in the cold - accessing scholarly resources beyond the ivory tower



Come and…

PhD. Nancy Sanchez Tarrago,…

In recognition of Open Access Week the Library and Technology Services website of Brandeis University will be turning orange and we will be encouraging all members of the community to consider how greater access to scholarship serves to provide increased interdisciplinary collaboration and therefore potentially greater service to society.

Additonally, we are also very proud to spend the week spreading awareness of Brandeis’ Open Access Fund. This fund provides support for…

The Open Access Office of the university is celebrating Open Access Week with an information desk at the university main building on October 23rd and 24th (from 10:00 to 15:30). There we will inform about Open Access and answer questions from university members. We will also fly…

ALL Woods Hole authors are invited to join the MBLWHOI Library for an informal get-together cider-cake coffee break at 10:15 am, Thursday October  24th, in the WHOI Smith Conference Room, 1st Floor, in recognition of International Open Access Week.

Announcing Modern Languages Open

Launching in spring 2014, Modern Languages Open (MLO) is a peer-reviewed platform from Liverpool University…

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will be holding two events to celebrate Open Access Week 2013:

1. PRESENTATION (23 OCTOBER 2013)

TOPIC:   RAISING YOUR SCHOLARLY PROFILE: THE BENEFITS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

DATE :    23 OCTOBER 2013

TIME :    11.00 TO 12.00

VENUE:   WITS MEDICAL…

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 Dutch program for the Open Access week is online on the national Open Access website:

http://www.openaccess.nl/openaccessinthenetherlands/open-access-week-2013

The James A. Gibson Library at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, will celebrate its fourth annual Open Access Week with the following events:

Monday, Oct. 21

12-1 pm -- Panel discussion: Experiences with Open Access publishing. Location:…

Another year the library of Politechnical University of Valencia joins Open Access Week with a series of activities:

• Monday, October 21: "Day of open access", We’talk about: Creative Commons licenses,  plagiarism and how to avoid it and academic work (TFG / TFM ), RiuNet (institutional repository ) will be analyzed . …

In addition to the new program, review articles, tutorials, and most letters published in all SPIE journals have been made open access by SPIE without cost to either authors or readers. For its Journal of Biomedical Optics, SPIE deposits articles funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health with PubMed Central on the authors' behalf.

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…

Indian Institute of Management and Commerce, Hyderabad ( India) jointly with Knowledge Connect for Empowerment (A registered Society) is organising a ONE DAY PROGRAM ON Sunday 27 October 2013 at HYDERABAD, INDIA.

IN THIS program there will be presentations on various types of OA resources by experts. There will be a discussion on strategies to enhanced use of OA resources. it will also discuss the role of Librarians and action plans for publicity and providing…