Europe: Open Access Week 2010

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

'''This is not an exhaustive list of countries. If you want to add your event and your country is not listed here feel free to add it in alphabetical order. '''

Belgium

 * Contact: Bernard Rentier
 * Location: http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/
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Bulgaria

 * Contact: Radostina Todorova
 * Location: http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=27
 * Link for more details, if available: http://eprints.nbu.bg/


 * Contact: Prof. Peter Stanchev, OpenAIRE National coordinator, pstanche[@]kettering.edu; Dr. Radoslav Pavlov, EuDML National coordinator, radko[@]cc.bas.bg; Prof. Roumen Nikolov, ATLAS and OpenScout National coordinator, roumen[@]fmi.uni-sofia.bg
 * Location:Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia
 * Link for more details, if available: The National Information Day Open Access to Scientific Information organized by the OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk, the European Digital Mathematics Library EuDML, ATLAS (Applied Technology for Language-Aided CMS) and OpenScout (skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training), with the support of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/national-information-day-open

Czech Republic

 * Contact: Daniela Tkacikova, Pavla Rygelova
 * Location: http://knihovna.vsb.cz
 * Link for more details, if available: http://knihovna.vsb.cz/open-access/open-access.htm


 * Contact: Daniela Tkacikova, Pavla Rygelova
 * Location: 11 institutions
 * Link for more details, if available:http://openaccess.cz/

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Estonia

 * Contact: Elena Sipria-Mironov, University of Tartu Library, elena.sipria-mironov[@]ut.ee
 * Location: University of Tartu
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access workshop on October 19-20: http://www.utlib.ee/index.php?e_id=9&s_id=354

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 * Contact: Hélène Bosc
 * Location: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/HeleneBosc
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Germany
Check the list of the information platform open-access.net. The list provides an overview of the activities and events planned by the individual universities and non-university research institutes, libraries etc.


 * Contact: Katja Mruck
 * Location: Freie Universität Berlin
 * Link for more details, if available: http://www.zukunftsgespraeche.de/


 * Contact: Anja Oberländer
 * Location: Universität Konstanz
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 * Contact: Günter Mey
 * Location: Hochschule Magdeburg Stendal
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 * Contact: Cornelia Rau
 * Location: TU Bergakademie Freiberg
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 * Contact: info@openaccess-germany.de
 * Location: Göttingen. University of Konstanz & The Institute for Qualitative Research
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Greece

 * Contact: info@dlorg.eu
 * Location: Golden Age Hotel, Athens, Greece
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Ireland

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Italy

 * Contact: Paola De Castro
 * Location: Rome
 * Link for more details, if available:This event is organized within the European Porject NECOBELAC with the objective to create awareness in scientific writing and open access publication and at the same time promote cooperaton between Europe and LAtin America Caribbean countries. http://www.iss.it/


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Latvia

 * Contact: the Library of the University of Latvia
 * Location: the University of Latvia
 * Link for more details, if available: a workshop "Open Access and OpenAIRE - challenge and opportunity for Latvian scientific progress" on the 18th October: http://www.lu.lv/eng/news/t/4006/

Lithuania

 * Contact: Gintare Tautkeviciene
 * Location: Lithuanian Research Libraries Association (LMBA)
 * Link for more details, if available: http://www.lmba.lt/OA/liet/oa.htm

The LMBA Consortium member - ISM University of management and Economics organized an international conference "Innovation Driven Enterpreneurship" (http://www.ism.lt/bmra2010) and on October 15th a post conference "Innovation in Academic Publishing" was organized by the library. Among the speakers - Alma Swan (via skype) and Daniel Williamson.
 * Contact: Gintare Tautkeviciene
 * Location: Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania.
 * Link for more details, if available: The Lithuanian Association of Serials (LMPA), the Lithuanian Research Libraries Consortium (LMBA) and the Lithuanian Academy of Science organize international conference “Dissemination possibilities for Lithuanian research journals in the world” at 21st October 2010. Target audience - scientific journals editors and administrators, researchers and librarians. Conference program include presentations about new developments in journal publishing (Taylor&Francis scientific research in Lithuania), ScholarOne Manuscript Central (electronic peer-review system), Lithuanian research journals on the web (findings from LMPA research), as well as practical information about open access publishing (how to use OJS, how to offer OA journal for the DOAJ, how to find information about OA resources). The conference will be held in Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania. More information is at http://www.lmba.lt/OA/liet/oa.htm

Macedonia, Republic of

 * Contact: Vladimir Trajkovski, MD, PhD
 * Contact: Dimitar Poposki, PhD candidate
 * http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/


 * Location: Faculty of Philosophy, University "Saint Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
 * Link for more details, if available: In order to promote Open Access at the Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation will organize a lecture in which Prof. Vladimir Trajkovski, chief-editor of Open Access Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation (JSER) will present the journal to the wider audience. For more information about JSER visit http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/ The guest speaker, Dimitar Poposki, Information Science PhD candidate, will speak about the use of Open Access, Open Source software for Academic Publishing and Digital Preservation and E-learning (E-print, DSpace and Moodle). The creation and use of Open Educational resources in the context of Open Access will also be mentioned. For more info visit http://independent.academia.edu/DimitarPoposki


 * More info: http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/macedonia/nedela-na-otvoren-pristap-2010.html

Moldova
The Annual Conference of the Librarians’ Association of Moldova is entirely devoted to the problems of Open Access in the Republic of Moldova (November11-12). Master’s Degrees students of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication of Information of the State University of Moldova created a video about the importance of Open Access for science and education (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAbIJQrs_0&feature=player_embedded).
 * Contact: Natalia Cheradi, Academy of Economic Studies, and EIFL-OA country coordinator
 * Location: Chisinau
 * Link for more details, if available: On October 18 the press conference was organised to launch the first open access repository in the country in the Library of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.


 * Contact: Departamentul Informaţional Biblioteconomic ULIM
 * Location: Free International University of Moldova, Chisinau
 * Link for more details, if available: http://library.ulim.md/pdf/Program%20DIB_.pdf


 * Contact: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat " A.Russo" din Bălţi
 * Location: Chisinau
 * Link for more details, if available: http://libruniv.usb.md/


 * Contact: Biblioteca Centrală a Universităţii de Stat din Moldova
 * Location: Chisinau
 * Link for more details, if available: http://www.usm.md/?mode=69&idnews=362

Netherlands

 * Contact: Annemiek van der Kuil
 * http://www.openaccess.nl/


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Poland

 * Contact: Bożena Bednarek-Michalska
 * Location: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń; KOED, Warsaw
 * Link for more details, if available: http://koed.org.pl/projekty/oa-week/?lang=en

Portugal

 * RCAAP Project supports and promotes Open Access Week 2010: provided a site that brings together all the activities and useful information on the promotion and implementation of this international event in Portugal.
 * Contact: info@rcaap.pt
 * Location: http://www.acessolivre.pt/semana


 * RCAAP (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal = Portugal Open Access Science Repository): is an initiative that aims to increase the visibility, accesibility and dissemination of Portuguese research results, to facilitate the access to the information about the Portuguese scientific output, as well as to integrate Portugal in the wide range of international initiatives in this domain. RCAAP is an initiative of UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency, developed by FCCN – National Foundation for Scientific Computation, offering an advanced service on the Portuguese Network of Science and Education (Rede de Ciência e Educação). The project’s execution has the technical and scientific participation of the Minho University. The project is financed by the Programa Operacional Sociedade do Conhecimento and UMIC.

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Russia

 * Contact: Sergey Parinov
 * Location: http://rvles.ieie.nsc.ru/~parinov/
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SLovenia

 * Contact: Mojca Kotar
 * Location: Ljubljana
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access to the Achievements of Slovenian Scientists - 4th joint conference of the Special Libraries Section and the Academic Libraries Section of the Slovenian Library Association under the auspices of the Slovenian Research Agency, October 27-28: http://www.zbds-zveza.si/academic_2010.asp

Spain

 * Contact: Isabel Bernal
 * Location: http://digital.csic.es/
 * Link for more details, if available: At Digital.CSIC, the repository of the Spanish National research Council we are organizing a number of activities (events, promotional material, studies, etc)to celebrate this week, full information is available at http://bibliotecas.csic.es/servicios/semana_oaw2010_csic_eng.html.


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Sweden

 * Contact: Aina Svensson and Karin Meyer Lundén
 * Location: Uppsala University
 * Link for more details, if available: http://www.ub.uu.se/oaweek2010


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Ukraine
On October 14, 2010 the American Library of National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy hosted an Open Access Section meeting as part of the 2nd International Forum “Informatio 2010: Current Issues of Information Society”. Presentations included current developments in open access projects worldwide, and knowledge sharing among Ukrainian repository projects managers. The participants discussed benefits and challenges and outlined cooperative actions to promote open access in Ukraine.
 * Contact: Iryna Kuchma
 * Location: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/IrynaKuchma?xg_source=activity
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United Kingdom
To celebrate Open Access Week, UK-based BioMed Central are hosting Open Access Africa in Kenya. Open access to the results of scientific and medical research has the potential to play an important role in international development, and this conference will discuss the benefits of open access publishing in an African context, from the perspective of both readers seeking access to information, and researchers seeking to globally communicate the results of their work. Registration is free, just follow the link provided.
 * Contact: BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com
 * Location: Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya from 10-11 November 2010.
 * Link for more details, if available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/openaccessafrica

University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week. Representatives of universities, research institutions and research funders the world over that have adopted (or are planning to adopt) an OA mandate are invited to register their policy in ROARMAP (the Registry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies) as a show of force during OA week, setting an example to encourage other institutions and funders worldwide to do likewise. If you know of an OA mandate -- already adopted or proposed -- that has not yet been registered in ROARMAP, please register it (or encourage a relevant official to register it). Please register your mandate in ROARMAP HERE Progress in mandate growth during OA week will be charted by Dr. Alma Swan (a Program Advisor for OA Week) in OASIS (Open Access Information Sourcebook), EOS (EnablingOpenScholarship) and elsewhere.
 * Contact: Swan, Alma
 * Location: University of Southampton, http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
 * Link for more details, if available: OA Week OA Mandate Challenge

For the second year running, the graduates and young researchers training aims to make climate-related research & data in the Earth Sciences more transparent and accessible to society and stakeholders outside academia. Our strategy to achieve this goal is to focus firmly on the real open access carrots for authors: visibility, use of research and data, and more citations. 20 Oct 2010 (Wednesday) 14.00 Introduction: What is OPEN ACCESS and the advantages offered? 14.30-15.30 Evidence from the SOAP Project (Study of Open Access Publishing) Sunje Dallmeier Tiessen, CERN (via videolink in ENG) 15.30-16.30 OA metrics and the OA Advantage Stevan Harnad, Un. de Montreal (via videolink in ENG) 16.30-17.30 GREEN or Self-archiving open access Catherine Bertignac & in FRENCH 21 Oct 2010 (Thursday) 14.30-15.00 GOLD open access Morgane Le Gall, IFREMER (in FRENCH) 15.00-16.00 Why publish in OA journals? Denis-Didier Rousseau, Co-Editor of "Climate of the Past" (EGU Journal) 16.00-17.00 Open Access in the European Research Area Jean-Francois Dechamp, European Commission (via videolink in ENG) 17.00-17.30 Discussion & Closure
 * Contact: Harnad, Stevan
 * Location: http://openaccess.eprints.org
 * Link for more details, if available: OA Metrics and the OA AdvantageWATCH LIVE HERE

EPrints, the first software that made it possible for institutions to create repositories in which to self-archive their research papers online, celebrates its 10th birthday during Open Access Week.
 * Contact: Carr, Les
 * Location: http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/
 * Link for more details, if available: EPrints celebrates its 10th birthday during OA Week

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 * Location: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
 * Link for more details, if available: The Library is holding a number of events, including lunchtime seminars for researchers, a BioMed Central workshop on getting research published for early career researchers, and an event for staff who support researchers. http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-week-at-the-1.”: