Nach einer erfolgreichen Open Access Week 2009 findet in diesem Jahr findet vom 18.-24. Oktober die zweite internationale Open Access Week statt.

I anthologised the proceedings of our Open Access Week 2012 Blogging Unconference. You can download the PDF (it’s free).

Today is international Open Access Week and, in celebration and to raise awareness, I gave a talk and workshop at the University of Sussex for a cross-discipline audience. I was pleasantly surprised this year at the acceptance of an open culture and intrinsic understanding of the benefits of openness, both in monetary and permissive terms.

This week (October 19-23) is Open Access Week – a good opportunity to think and write about this topic. On Monday I wrote in a blog post: In that blog post I then wrote about the role of the researcher as a reader.

28 October 2016 During the past six months we’ve been quiet, but magic was going on behind the scenes. Over the coming months we’ll talk more about what’s happened, what’s changed, and what’ll happen next. But now, we have five major changes to tell you about:1. Find and request articles and data The Open Data Button has now been combined with the Open Access Button.

Find out more at the Open Access Week website. And watch this blog for another Open Access story later today.

To mark 10 years of Open Access Week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein explores recent trends in open access and scholarly communication.

PLoS ONE today published a paper very relevant to Open Access Week (which started today): Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636.

Ernesto Priego has invited me to speak at City University in London on Thursday the 22nd October as part of Open Access Week. I wanted to pull together a bunch of the thinking I’ve been doing recently around Open Knowledge in general and how we can get there from here. This is deliberately a bit on the provocative side so do come along to argue!

As Open Access Week 2009 gets underway, the Wellcome Trust has called for greater transparency among publishers to counter the argument that access fees are being paid twice – once through subscriptions and again through publication fees. The call comes as the Trust announces a further £2 million to fund open access publication fees for its researchers over the next 12 months.