Asia: Open Access Week 2009

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.

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Azerbaijan

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Bangladesh

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China

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India

Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

• Contact: Dr. Gutam Sridhar ([email protected]; +91-9909719353)
• Location: Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research
• Link for more details, if available: Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India
• Proposed programme: Awareness programme on Open Access and Open Access Repositories

Seth GL Bihani SD College of Technical Education

Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

• Contact: Vikas Anand Saharan ([email protected]; +91-9799299706)
• Location: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Seth G.L. Bihani S.D. College of Technical Education, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, INDIA
• Link for more details, if available: http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com, www.bihanieducationtrust.org
• Proposed Programmes: Seminar on "Open Access and its Utility in Pharmaceutical Education and Research"; Practical Classes on "Information Retrieval for Pharmaceutical Education and Research using OA Resources"; Promotion of OA through blogsite and search engines "Vikas PSOAR" and "Vikas PGIAR" exclusively customized for OA literature in pharmaceutical sciences and guidelines; Poster competition, Some More Events to Promote Open Access

Iran

• 19 October 2009: Half a day workshop: What is Open Access and how it works for publishing manuscripts?

• Contact: Professor Ali Montazeri

• Location: Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Resrach, Tehran

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Japan

IRcuresILL Project

Institutional Repository cures InterLibrary Loan/Document Delivery

• Contact: Masako Suzuki (Otaru University of Commerce Library) and Shigeki Sugita (Hokkaido University Library), IRcuresILL project manager
• Dates: During Open Access Week 2009
• Location: Project partner libraries
• Event description and details: Encouraging the ILL/DD users (researchers and students) to self-archive their own writings for other potential ILL/DD users, by brochures and posters showing Open Access movements.
• Link for more details: IRcuresILL Project

Open Access “Friday & Night” 2009

The future of Open Access: e-Research, Open Courseware, Social Network Services

• Contact: Keita Bando (Managing Director, My Open Archive)
• Dates: October 23 (Fri.), 2009. Start at 6:00 – 9:00PM (Japan Standard Time)
• Location: FUKUTAKE Learning Theater, The University of Tokyo
• Link for more details: In Part I (Friday), we will share ideas and information with vital seminars presented by speakers with various backgrounds. They would talk about Open Access of all scholarly and educational resources, as well as Open Access of journal papers. Through these talks, we would examine and discuss about the future potential of Open Access. In Part II (Night), we will have a casual party and share all participants’ views about the future potential of Open Access.
• Link for more details: Open Access Week .JP

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SPARC Japan Seminar 2009

An open access business model and researchers' attitudes

• Contact: Izumi Sugita (National Institute of Informatics)
• Location: National Institute of Informatics
• Dates: October 20, 2009
• Link for more details, if available: The 5th SPARC Japan Seminar 2009

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Korea

Open Access Project

• Contact: Seok-Jong Lim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information: KISTI), Open Access project Researcher
• About us: KISTI is conducting Open Access Project funded by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. This Project aims to build National Repositoy based on Open Access. KISTI is also preparing to organize Open Access Korea (OAK). OAK is an organization to promote Open Access activities in Korea. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, National Library of Korea, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, KISTI and other organizaions are supposed to be members of OAK.
• Date: During Open Access Week 2009
• Location: KISTI. 66 Hoegiro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul Rep. of Korea
• Link for more details: Open Access Week with KISTI

Nepal

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Saudi Arabia

• Contact: [email protected]
• Location: KAUST Library, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• Dates: Oct, 17th, 2009 - Oct, 21st, 2009
• About us: The KAUST Library emphasizes support for "e-science" through its digital repository, web-based services, data curation, and full exploitation of the University's extraordinary IT infrastructure. The complete spectrum and life cycle of scientific information produced or needed by faculty and students will be made available and managed by the KAUST Library.
• Link for more details, if available: http://www.kaust.edu.sa/library/

Sri Lanka

• Contact:nalinabeysekera at gmail.com
• Location:Open University of Sri Lanka,Sri Lanka
• Link for more details, if available:http://nalinabeysekera.wordpress.com
• Contact:Nalin Abeysekera
• Location:Sri Lanka
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