Open Access Week is designed to help raise awareness of the potential benefits of Open Access to research, and to celebrate milestones in making Open Access a norm in the conduct of science and scholarship.  Momentum for the incorporation of Open into the fabric of science and scholarship has been steadily growing, as evidenced by the growing number of policies from public and private research funders and research producers on college and university campuses.

The momentum is also evident as research institutions, advocacy organizations, and others around the world will participate in the week and demonstrate the wide relevance of Open Access across disciplines and across constituencies. Many campuses and organizations are planning to release reports and resolutions, to discuss Open Access policies, to launch new or updated resources, to sign the student statement, or take other specific actions to support Open Access throughout the week.

eIFL.net network activities include:

Armenia: the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia wears Open Access Week button. 

Latvia: The University of Latvia (LU), State agency "Culture information systems" and eIFL.net will organize Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop on October 22, 2009, at the LU, Riga, with Prof. Indrikis Muiznieks, LU vice rector, giving a welcome speech, Zibute Petrauskiene from Vilnius University Library and Tetiana Yaroshenko, University Librarian, Vice President for IT, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Аcademy, presenting successes of Open Access projects in Lithuania and Ukraine, Indra Dedze, Ph.D., Project Manager, Academic Department, LU, discussing challenges and opportunities of the research publications at the University of Latvia, and Irina Shumadieva, Metamorphosis Foundation, presenting the strategy of promoting Open Access in Macedonia.

Moldova: The State University of Moldova (USM), Faculty of Journalism and Communications, Department of Library and Information support, Library Association of the Republic of Moldova, Consortium eIFL Direct Moldova and Program eIFL-OA Moldova organsed a workshop Open Access to Knowledge in the Republic of Moldova.

Poland:

§         the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw organised the seminar “Openness in science – Open Access and other models”;

§         Editors of Electronic Pedagogical Library promoted the idea of Open Educational Resources and open access among librarians and teachers.

Russia: the electronic archive of the Ural State University celebrated its next milestone of 1,865 publications (1 new publication was deposited every day since the first Open Access Day on October 14, 2008).

South Africa:

• Durban University of Technology launched Featured Author series at DUT Institutional Repository;
• The Library of the University of Johannesburg scheduled  presentations and demonstrations of UJDigispace – open access institutional repository every day during the week as well as invited the guest speaker: Ms Madelein van Heerden, CSIR to give a presentation Making you famous;
• The Department of Library Services and the Department of Research and Innovation Support of the University of Pretoria have joined hands to present a programme that focuses on the value, importance and cost-effectiveness of open access (OA) journals: Open Access journals demystified;
• University of the Western Cape invited Eve Gray to talk how researchers can use internet communications and open access strategies to profile their work and enhance the reputation of their scholarship and their university.

Ukraine:

§        Anthropos – Open Humanities archive celebrates Open Access Week; 

§        Donetsk National Technical University will organise a lecture for the 2^nd and the 3^rd year students about Open Access to Knowledge (by Victoria Voropayeva);

§        Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy promoted Open Access Week;

§        Presentations about Open Access will take place in the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy;