Open Access Week
Encyclopedia
Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication
event focusing on open access
and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandate
s or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society
chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating back from 1665 till 1941.
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In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19-23 In 2010, it took place from October 18-24 From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year
Scholarly communication
Scholarly communication is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond....
event focusing on open access
Open access
Open access refers to unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs....
and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandate
Open access mandate
An Open Access Self Archiving Mandate is a policy—adopted by a research institution , a research funder or a government—that requires researchers to make their published, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers open access by depositing their final,...
s or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating back from 1665 till 1941.
History
Open Access Week has its roots in the National Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States by Students for Free Culture and the TaxPayers' AllianceTaxPayers' Alliance
The TaxPayers' Alliance is a British pressure group and taxpayers union formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society. The group had about 18,000 registered supporters as of 2008, and claimed to have 55,000 by September 2010....
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In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19-23 In 2010, it took place from October 18-24 From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year
Events
Details of Open Access Week events are recorded in the "Open Access Week" section of the Open Access Directory, organized by country and institutionExternal Links
- openaccessweek.org, a dedicated online platform for Open Access Week, sponsored by SPARCScholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. They currently have over 800 institutions in North America, Europe, Japan,...