{"id":710,"date":"2013-10-21T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=710"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:32:05","slug":"october-open-access-celebration-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2013\/10\/21\/october-open-access-celebration-month\/","title":{"rendered":"October: Open Access Celebration Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"
The long-awaited celebration of the 15 years of the existence of the SciELO Program will take place in October. And October is known as Open Access month \u2013 and it all started on the 14th of October, 2008 when the first International Open Access Day was celebrated. In the following year, the celebrations were extended to a week, from 19 \u2013 23 October 2009, with the launch of a global social event known as Open Access Week with the objective of connecting the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes at the local level to share documents, news, tools, multimedia (videos and photos), and much more.<\/p>\n
Open Access Week states that:<\/p>\n
\u201cOpen Access\u201d to information \u2013 the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need \u2013 has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.\u00b9<\/p>\n
Acting nowadays as a repository for content relating to Open Access, the Open Access Week Web site disseminates materials from all over the world, and we can see there that both the commitment to and support for Open Access from researchers and \u00a0academics,<\/b> professors, students, academic institutes, research funding agencies and the public in general are growing each year.<\/p>\n
Since its creation, there have been more than 360 events\u00b9<\/i>\u00a0celebrating Open Access on five continents, from conferences and seminars to workshops and round tables, mostly in the month of October which happens to be Open Access month!<\/p>\n
Amongst the various events disseminated, we highlight the 4th Luso-Brazilian Conference in Open Access (CONFOA), held October 6 – 9, 2013 in the auditorium of the Biblioteca Brasiliana (Brasiliana Library) of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, which brought together researchers, teachers, librarians, administrators, students, professionals and politicians interested in the promotion, greater dissemination and penetration of Open Access, and in connecting these actors and the subject of Open Access in the Lusophone-Brazilian community. We also highlight here the SciELO 15 Years Conference which is being held October 22-25, 2013 in S\u00e3o Paulo, marking 15 years of the SciELO Network and which will bring together authorities and experts in research and scholarly communication with the aim of highlighting and discussing the state of the art in Open Access scholarly communication and the challenges for the development of the academic journals of the SciELO Program. Don\u2019t miss it! Have you already registered?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s celebrate Open Access!<\/p>\n
Some other events in October celebrating Open Access worldwide:<\/p>\n
Australia<\/b><\/p>\n
Publishing the Open Access Way: The Change in Business Thinking Towards Open Access<\/p>\n
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The long-awaited celebration of the 15 years of the existence of the SciELO Program will take place in October. And October is known as Open Access month \u2013 and it all started on the 14th of October, 2008 when the first International Open Access Day was celebrated. In the following year, the celebrations were extended to a week, from 19 \u2013 23 October 2009, with the launch of a global social event known as Open Access Week with the objective of connecting the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes at the local level to share documents, news, tools, multimedia (videos and photos), and much more.<\/p>\n![\"Sibele](\"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Sibele2013.png\" "\\"Sibele")
<\/a>About Sibele Fausto<\/h3>\n