Eurosurveillance - View Article--OPEN ACCESS WEEK 22–28 OCTOBER 2012

[Eurosurveillance is a European peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases, with a focus on such topics that are of relevance to Europe. It is a weekly online journal, published every Thursday, and features short rapid communications, longer in-depth research articles, surveillance and outbreak reports, reviews and perspective papers, as well as short news items. Timely publication of short authoritative papers on ongoing outbreaks or other relevant public health events is one of the major assets of the journal. Under special circumstances when current events need to be urgently communicated to readers for rapid public health action, e-alerts can be released outside of the regular publishing schedule. Topical compilations of selected articles and special issues are also published in print. The entire content is open access, free of charge for both readers and authors.]   Use the link to access the full text article published in the journal Eurosurveilliance published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).  The abstract reads as follows: "Open Access Week is a global annual event held for the 6th time in 2012 between 22 and 28 October. Its main purposes are to promote awareness of the international open access movement and to give an opportunity to the academic and research community to share knowledge and information about the benefits of open access. More information on the Open Access Week is available on the special website dedicated to the event at the following link: http://www.openaccessweek.org/ Open Access is about sharing research freely and openly and thus removes obstacles to free access to research such as the cost of journal subscriptions, or other access fees. Eurosurveillance is an open access journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases, free of charge for both authors and readers since 1996."