<a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a><br><br> October 18 - 24 <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Open Access Week,</span> a global event
now entering its fourth year, <br>is an opportunity for the academic and
research community to <br>continue to learn about the potential benefits of
Open Access, <br>to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help
inspire <br>wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm <br>in
scholarship and research. <br><br>“Open Access” to information – the
free, immediate, online access <br>to the results of scholarly research, and
the right to use and re-use <br>those results as you need – has the power
to transform the way <br>research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It
has direct and <br>widespread implications for academia, medicine, science,
industry, <br>and for society as a whole.<br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>"What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access"<br><br>* Submit your research articles to OA journals, <br>
when there are appropriate OA journals in your field.<br><br>* Deposit your preprints in an open-access, OAI-compliant<br> archive. <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/">http://www.openarchives.org/</a><br><br>* Deposit your postprints in an open-access repository.<br>
<br>* If you have not yet transferred copyright to a publisher, <br> then ask to retain copyright.<br><br>* Deposit your data files in an OA archive along with<br> the articles built on them. Whenever possible, link to<br>
the data files from the articles, and vice versa, so that<br> readers of one know where to find the other<br><br>* Work with your professional societies to make sure<br> they understand OA. Persuade the organization to<br>
make its own journals OA, endorse OA for other<br> journals in the field, and support OA eprint archiving<br> by all scholars in the field.<br><br><br>AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE:<br><br>* Educate the next generation of <br>
scientists and scholars about OA<br><br><a href="http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Educational_materials_about_OA">http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Educational_materials_about_OA</a><br><br><br><br>More at<br><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a><br>
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