Informationsplattform Open Access: Ideas and material

Ideas and Materials

Here you will find a collection of ideas for activities that you could organise at your institution during Open Access Week and a range of downloadable promotional materials and templates. The information platform would be happy to assist you with your activities, so please do not hesitate to contact us. Unfortunately we are not in a position to provide financial assistance for the development and production of promotional materials.

For informational purposes and as a source of ideas for Open Access Week 2010, we have compiled documentation (slides, photos, videos) of the national and international activities which took place within the framework of Open Access Week 2009.

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Activities within the framework of international Open Access Week

A large number of activities and events are to take place at institutes of higher education and non-university research institutions throughout Germany within the framework of international Open Access Week. The information platform would like to help you with the realisation of such activities at your institution. Therefore, to make it easier for you to realise your events, we plan to make ideas and material progressively available on this web page and on the pages that follow.

In order to make the German activities nationally and internationally visible and to facilitate cooperation with other institutions, please inform us of your participation and let us have details of the activities you have planned. On the web page devoted to participating institutions we will publish a list of all the scholarly and scientific institutions who are participating in Open Access Week. By cooperating in this way, you will also facilitate a comprehensive documentation of the national contributions and promote the visibility of the Open Access idea.

Here are just a few examples of the many activities you could organise:

  • Information events on Open Access (for example, talks and workshops)
  • Presentation of your own OA-related activities at a stand located in a prominent position in your institution
  • Presentation of local OA activities in internal communication media such as institutional and staff newsletters
  • Workshops on individual aspects of Open Access aimed at specific target groups
  • Talks given by local scholars and scientists on their own experiences with Open Access
  • Production of a collection of statements by local scholars and scientists on the benefits of Open Access
  • Exhibitions of literature on the subject of Open Access in the reading room of your institution's library 
  • Production and/or presentation of an information brochure on local OA activities
  • Introductory courses in Open Access for junior scientists and scholars
  • Introductory courses in Open Access for subject specialists
  • Discipline-specific information events on Open Access
  • Production and/or presentation of a video about Open Access (one example is the video produced by the University of Zurich)

    It would be a good idea to have these activities coincide with a special occasion such as the passage of internal OA recommendations, the publication of openly accessible literature, the deposit in the institutional repository of publications authored by members of the institution's senior management, etc.

    Develop ideas, cooperate with other institutions such as publishers and scholarly societies, and make the necessary local preparations (reserve venues, approach speakers, involve your organisation's internal communication network, issue press releases etc).

     

    For a wide range of promotional materials consult the Open Access Week's website Spread the word.

     

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    Materials

    At our Open Access stand at this year's Librarians' Day in Erfurt, we used posters, postcards, buttons and a presentation to promote international Open Access Week. A short report on our activities is available on the openaccessweek.org website.

    Information material on Open Access, and the templates of the promotional materials, some of which have been developed and made available by the organisers of international Open Access Week themselves, can be downloaded here. These templates can be customised to suit your specific needs. 

     

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    Buttons

    The buttons are 32 mm in diameter. There are many firms on the Internet who manufacture buttons.

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    Button of the information platform open-access.net.

    Button, 32 mm (PDF, 38 KB)

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    Posters

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    Presentations

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    Flyers

    Information material available on open-access.net

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      Videos

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          Other Material

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