Open Access Week

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A PhD Comics special for Open Access Week 2012.
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A cake baked for Open Access Week 2010 celebrations at the University of Lincoln, featuring the Open Access logo.
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A web banner (in Swedish) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon during Open Access Week 2015

Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandates or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating back from 1665 till 1941.[1]

History

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Example event, a symposium at the University of Arizona, October 25, 2011[2]

Open Access Week has its roots in the National Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States by Students for Free Culture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.[3] In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global.[4] In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23.[5] In 2010, it took place from October 18–24.[6] From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year.[7] In 2013, the week was 21–27 October.[8]

Themes

In early years, organisations celebrating Open Access Week set their own themes. Since 2012, an 'official' theme was established and received special attention at the corresponding kick-off events held at the World Bank.

  • In 2016, the theme is "Open in Action."[9]
  • In 2015, the theme was "Open for Collaboration."[10]
  • In 2014, the theme was "Generation Open."[11]
  • In 2013, the theme was "redefining impact."[12]
  • In 2012, the theme was "set the default to open access."[13]

Events

Details of Open Access Week events are recorded in the "Events" section of the Open Access Directory.[14] They are also listed on the Open Access Week website, where over 140 events were listed for Open Access Week 2013.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (WebCite)
  2. ↑ The Future of Data: Open Access and Reproducibility (WebCite)
  3. ↑ Announcing the National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15 (WebCite)
  4. ↑ First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008 (WebCite).
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (WebCite)
  6. ↑ Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24 (Webcite).
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (WebCite)
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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