Open Access Week for Web Resources

Posted on October 19, 2009
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The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research.

This includes access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public.

So, what exactly is Open Access?

A principle, in the first place; the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after being published.

It’s also a growing international movement promoting the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

As a movement, Open Access is related and supported by various organization, like Students for Free Culture – that believes in a society where all members are free to participate in the transmission and evolution of culture, without artificial limits on who can participate or in what way.

See also PLoS – the Public Library of Science, focused on scientific and medical literature, or SPARC – the Scholarly Publiching & Academic Resource Coalition, among the others.

Sources:
Open Access Week
Free Culture

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