Informationsplattform Open Access: International Open Access Week

International Open Access Week

International Open Access Week will take place from 19 to 23 October 2009. The aim is to publicise Open Access (OA) at many different locations worldwide during that week in order to broaden awareness of OA and to promote free access to the knowledge and information generated by publicly-funded research. The organisers of the action week are

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), PLoS (Public Library of Science), Students for FreeCulture, OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook), the Open Access Directory (OAD) and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries).

Open Access Week is a follow-up to international Open Access Day which took place on 14 October 2008. The events held locally by the 130 participating organisations in 30 countries successfully promoted OA.

The Alliance of German Science Organisations' Open Access Working Group supports the broad participation of German science institutions in international Open Access Week. Representatives of the OA Working Group and open-access.net have set up a coordinating  committee whose aim is to support scientific and scholarly organisations in Germany in planning and realising activities and events at their institutions within the framework of international Open Access Week.

The following organisations are members of the German coordinating committee:

Take the opportunity to participate in international Open Access Week by organising activities at your institution, and avail of the action week to broaden awareness of OA among your institution's scholars and scientists!  Participants 2009, activities 2009 and registration.

 

You can also consult the Open Access Week's English-language website.

Here you will find the press release. 

 

Open Access Week - Open Access Days - What's the difference?

While Open Access Days, which will be held on 7 and 8 October at the University of Konstanz, is an annual conference, international Open Access Week, which takes place two weeks later, offers you the opportunity to organise local events in order to promote Open Access in your own institution and to raise members' awareness of the OA idea.

 

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