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Worldwide Open Access Week

Karyn Hinkle | BGC Library Blog | November 5, 2012

Just as Hurricane Sandy headed for New York, Worldwide Open Access Week was observed in the last week of October. Read More »

‘Game-changing’ new option is Open Access Week highlight for optics and photonics publisher

Press Release | SPIE | October 22, 2012

Journal editors are expressing enthusiastic support for a new open access option announced recently by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Read More »

Open Access Week 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 27, 2013 (All day)
Link: 
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Location: 
Everywhere

Open Access Week 2013 is a global event, now in its 6th year. The goal is to help promote Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research around the world.

'Open Access' to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. Read More »

An Open Invitation To OpenCon

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 15, 2014 (All day) - November 17, 2014 (All day)
Link: 
An Open Invitation to OpenCon

...This year’s Open Access Week will celebrate these efforts with the theme Generation Open, and this fall, the Right to Research Coalition and SPARC will launch OpenCon, a new conference to support, connect, and catalyze student and early career researcher-led projects across open access, open education, and open data. The meeting will be held on November 15-17 in Washington, D.C...

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