Open Access Week | Horizons Newspaper

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-30

Summary:

"Open Access Week began as a movement in 2007 to draw attention to the need for more open scholarly access to information. Organized across the United States by 'Students for Free Culture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access,' the event became global in 2009 and expanded to a week. This year, it runs from Oct. 20-26, 2014. Formerly known as 'Freeculture.org,' Students for Free Culture is an international student organization working to promote free culture ideals, such as access to information. It was inspired by the work of former Stanford, now Harvard, law professor Lawrence Lessig ... The Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) is a coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research. ATA is directed by the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) [http://www.arl.org/sparc], a non-profit coalition of academic and research libraries and organizations committed to creating a more open system for the exchange of scholarly research results ... Recently, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University began its own open access repository of scholarly works. A link to our Scholarly Commons can be found on the library homepage ..."

Link:

http://erau-news.com/news/2014/10/28/open-access-week/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.oa_week oa.advocacy oa.sparc oa.ata oa.students oa.ir oa.green oa.repositories

Date tagged:

10/30/2014, 08:16

Date published:

10/30/2014, 04:16