Open Access Week encourages free online access to research / Top Stories - Florida State 24/7

"As Florida State University observes Open Access Week Oct. 21-27, Florida State University Libraries is advancing two campuswide initiatives to support a growing international effort to promote free and immediate online access to scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use research results as needed ... The first initiative, 'DigiNole Upload-A-Thon,' is an effort to bulk up the holdings of DigiNole Commons — the university’s institutional repository of scholarly articles — by encouraging at least one faculty member from each academic department to upload an already-published scholarly article ... The second initiative, 'Student Statement on the Right to Research,' an open access resolution offered by the Right To Research Coalition, will give individual Florida State students and student organizations the opportunity to endorse the idea of open access as a right ..."