Resource of the Week — Open Access Week Begins Today
By Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy, editors
UPDATE 10/19 SPARC (one of the sponsors of OA week) has published a massive list of OA Week activities taking place around the world.
+ From the Official Open Access Week Web Site
Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.
Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.
Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.
A Selection of Open Access Resources
+ Open Access News
Including a Collection of Open Access Week 2009 Resources
+ Open Access Tracking Project ||| RSS Feed
A project that began in early 2009 to track OA news.
+ Open Access Directory (via Simmons College)
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them and use them for reference.
+ Compilation of Open Access Videos and Handouts (U.S. and International)
+ Directory of Open Access Journals
Over 4300 journals with 1668 searchable at the article level.
+ Open Access Bibliography
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
+ Open Access Webliography
Compiled by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
+ Collection of Open Access Resources from the Public Library of Science
+ Open Access History Timeline
+ Open Access: A SPARC Brochure (6 pages; PDF)
+ Public.Resource.org — nonprofit Open Government organization spearheaded by Carl Malamud. See also: An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy (NYT)
+ Two Upcoming Webcasts
Both webcasts are free but you do need to register
- Q&A Webinar With 5 Very Different OA Publishers (October 20th)
- Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access (October 23rd)
+ The “Open Archives” Twitter Feed is Compiling Open Access Materials
+ The Twittter Hashtag for Open Access Week 2009 is #oaw09
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