To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… 1. The often incorrect definition of green and gold routes to Open Access I am a relative newcomer to Open Access having only been working in this area for a couple of years.
For Open Access week 2015, we tweeted some number-related facts about Europe PMC, reproduced with a little additional context here.
Europe PMC does lots of things in the Open Access arena. For Open Access week 2014, we summarised some of them in a series of tweets over the course of the week.
This week is International Open Access Week, and with the theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”. This aims at highlighting the individual and collective action required alongside the decisions, actions, and investments in knowledge sharing to ensure that equity is foundational.
This post is by our guest, Dr Stephen Pinfield, a Senior Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield.
If you’ve been following Twitter or the blogs, you’ll know that this has been Open Access Week. It’s been great to see many new open-access policies announced this week [Ireland, Belgium, Hungary], to read important explanations of why fully open (CC BY) OA is the way to go, and to see discussions from people like clinicians and librarians. It all contributes to the glorious sense that the transition to OA is beyond the tipping point.
On October 25th I’ll be giving an online talk at University College Cork for their event on New Horizons in Open Access Publishing.
Während der Open Access Day 2008 in Deutschland, auf Grund seiner zeitlichen Nähe zu den Open-Access-Tagen 2008 und der kurzfristigen Terminplanung nur von wenigen Institutionen begangen wurde, bietet die in diesem Jahr auf eine Woche ausgedehnte Open Access Week 2009 die Möglichkeit einer breiten Partizipation.
Nach einer erfolgreichen Open Access Week 2009 findet in diesem Jahr findet vom 18.-24. Oktober die zweite internationale Open Access Week statt.
Auf den Open-Access-Tagen 2011 in Regensburg stand die Frage nach der diesjährigen Open Access Week und möglichen Aktivitäten häufiger im Raum. Hier einige Links und Hinweise rund um die Aktionswoche. Die Open Access Week 2011 findet vom 24. bis 30. Oktober 2011 statt.