Thursday, October 9, 2008

Open Access Day is October 14!

October 14th, 2008 has been declared Open Access Day! Libraries, publishers and institutions around the world will be drawing attention to Open Access and celebrating the successes of this movement so far. Sponsored by SPARC, Public Library of Science and Students for Free Culture, Open Access Day includes a live video webcast and will be hosted in over 100 locations across the world, combined with a variety of local promotional activities to share information about the issues of Open Access. More information about this international event can be found here: http://openaccessday.org.


For an overview of the issues of Open Access, please see the Scholarly Communication & Publishing web site: http://www.library.wisc.edu/scp/openaccess/.


At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we have a number of promotional efforts in place and will be hosting the live webcast at the Memorial Union at 6:00pm (TITU). Everyone is welcome. The Libraries Web Site will have a promotional banner on October 14th that will lead to a special web page defining and celebrating Open Access: http://www.library.wisc.edu/scp/oaday/.