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Open Access Week is an annual
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
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In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global.First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008
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. In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23.
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In 2010, it took place from October 18–24.Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24Webcite
. From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year.()
openaccessweek.org
a dedicated online platform for Open Access Week, sponsored by
International Open Access Week at the University of PortoPresence at the OA International Site
Open Access Week in France
Open Access Week 2013
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Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication
Scholarly communication involves the creation, publication, dissemination and discovery of academic research, primarily in peer-reviewed journals and books. It is “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evalu ...
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 mandate
An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires or recommends researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their publishe ...
s or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating from 1665 to 1941.
History
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
Students for Free Culture, formerly known as FreeCulture.org, is an international student organization working to promote free culture ideals, such as cultural participation and access to information. It was inspired by the work of former Stanf ...
and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.Announcing the National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15WebCite
In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global.First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008
WebCite
. In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23.
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In 2010, it took place from October 18–24.Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24
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Themes
In the 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 theWorld Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...
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*2022: "Open for Climate Justice"
*2021: “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”
*2020: "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion"
*2019: "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"
*2018: "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge"
*2017: "Open In Order To"
*2016: "Open in Action"
*2015: "Open for Collaboration"
*2014: "Generation Open"
*2013: "Redefining impact"
*2012: "Set the default to open access"Events
Each year's Open Access Week events are recorded in the Open Access Directory and the Open Access Week website.See also
*Science festival
A science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with the same freshness and flair that would be expected from an arts or music festival and primarily targets the general public. These public engagement events can be varied ...
References
External links
openaccessweek.org
a dedicated online platform for Open Access Week, sponsored by
SPARC
SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system develope ...
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International Open Access Week at the University of Porto
Open Access Week in France
Open Access Week 2013
at the
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
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