Open Access Week began being celebrated in 2008 and is now in its fourth year. This archive notes the activities associated with the 2010 celebration worldwide.
Open Access Week will take place the third week of October.
SPARKY Awards (2011): A national competition for students to illustrate in a short video presentation what they see as the value of sharing information.
The UC Academic Senate passed a UC Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013 that ensures that future research articles authored by UC faculty will be made openly available to the public at no charge. The UCI Libraries are taking an active role in ushering in this new era by implementing new library services in support of the policy, educating faculty, and helping them share their research.
US Federal Funder Public Access Policies
Agencies that sponsor research are interested in maximizing the value of that research. Increasingly, this means requiring the recipients of grants to make the results of their research – both scholarly articles and the data supporting them – freely available to the public.
What is Open Access? Open Access literature known as OA is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. It usually removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, etc) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions). It now comes in a variety of flavors.
This video was produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and McGill University Library. (1:01)
Licence by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about. Make sure to watch it in HD and Fullscreen!
Visit our website: http://phdcomics.com/tv Published October 25, 2012
Benefits of Open Access 3:59
BioMed Central's authors and editors discuss the benefits of open access publishing
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There are many tools that promote and support OA scholarship and publishing.