Azerbaijan: Tatyana Zayseva, Library Information Center Director, Khazar University tzayseva[@]gmail.com:

Khazar University library translated "A very brief introduction to Open Access" by Peter Suber into Azeri language: http://www.khazar.org/library/news.shtm#news1

Lithuania: Dr. Gintare Tautkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, gintare.tautkeviciene[@]ktu.lt

Lithuanian research libraries consortium together with Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science and the Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education organize the workshop about Open access in the Lithuanian Academy of Science on October, 14, 2008. Workshop program is available online: http://www.lmba.lt/doc/seminaras_spalio14.doc. Information about open access is also on the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium website: http://www.lmba.lt/OA/liet/oa.htm.

Moldova: Consortium eIFL Direct Moldova - Natalia Cheradi, the Open Access Coordinator for Moldova:

• A blog about Open Access in Romanian language and a directory of Open Access Moldovian resources will be launched on the Open Access Day: http://oarm.blog2x2.net/
• Natalia Cheradi, the Open Access Coordinator for Moldova, will speak about Open Access on the National Radio and National TV (TV-4 channel)
• News from other libraries and about other events are coming.

Mozambique - Aissa Mitha Issak, eIFL country coordinator in Mozambique:

• Aissa Mitha Issak will write an article about Open Access to publish in the national newspaper (in the Wednesdays cultural supplement where they also publish academic and research articles)
• Aissa Mitha Issak plan to go on a radio show - Radio Mozambique - on the 14th and speak about the Open Access. The format is still discussed - either debates about access to information, or an interview.
• Aissa Mitha Issak is translating "We Support Open Access Flyer" featuring a librarian, teacher, funder, student and patient advocate, into Portuguese language (http://openaccessday.org/wp-content/uploads/we-support-oa-flyer.pdf) and will share the translation.

Poland: Bożena Bednarek-Michalska, eIFL Open Access country coordinator in Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Torun, Poznan Foundation of Scientific Libraries

Information campaign about Open Access:

• Bożena Bednarek-Michalska translated into Polish "A very brief introduction to Open Access" by Peter Suber and "We Support Open Access Flyer";
• different institutions will put this information with Open Access Day icon on their portals and web-sites on October 14;
• Bożena Bednarek-Michalska will send letters to the ministries, Universities and other public institutions about Open Access.

http://www.ebib.info/content/view/1568/ http://boa.icm.edu.pl/blog/2008/10/open-access-day/ http://creativecommons.pl/blog/2008/10/open-access-day/

South Africa:

Pam Govender, pamgoven[@]dut.ac.za; Web & IT Support Officer, DUT Library, ML Sultan Library, http://library.dut.ac.za:

In celebration of Open Access Day, DUT Libraries will host an informal open session on the Institutional Repository and how researchers can get their research ready for submission into the Repository.

Ina Smith, Ina.Smith[@]up.ac.za; University of Pretoria:

2 open sessions on UPSpace, the open access digital research repository of the University of Pretoria: what UPSpace is all about, and how researchers can benefit from making their research available on this repository. This includes conference papers, data sets, articles, video clips, sound clips, special collections donated, newspaper clippings etc. This is our way of supporting/ celebrating Open Access Day on 14 October.

Sudan: Abdalaziz Gabir, abdalazizgabir[@]yahoo.com Open University of Sudan Library, Open Access Manager, Ministry of higher education

About benefits of Open Access at the web-site of the Open University of Sudan - selected translations from English to Arabic to contribute to the awareness raising among Arabic countries http://www.ous.edu.sd/

There is a downloadable Open Access Day icon that you can post on your site together with text promoting the event, as well as downloadable half skyscraper and downloadable horizontal banner: http://openaccessday.org/promote-this-event/

SPARC encourages downloading their brochures: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/brochures/index.shtml

Folks from the media are echoing our wish to have a good record of the events on OADAY and have asked for us to make pictures available that they might include in news coverage. So, please add photographs and videos (if appropriate) to your preparation check list and plan to upload under a CC license to flickr.com, with the tag "oaday2008."

All these and much more are at the wikispace of Open Access Day http://oaday.wikispaces.com/

Please share your plans with us or join this wikispace.

And don't forget to follow the news at http://openaccessday.org