Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella report on the Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact which took place at Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi in Lilongwe, on 29 and 30 October 2009, organised by the Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO), the Malawi Research andEducation Network (MAREN), the Southern African Regional Universities Association ...

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious effort unites 38 partners from 27 European countries. The main goal of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Access pilot, launched by the European Commission ...

The ICM – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling - of the University of Warsaw (UW) published a Guide to open science - “Przewodnik po otwartej nauce”. The Guide covers Open Access, Open Science and Open Educational Resources. Authors of the Guide are Justyna Hofmokl, Krzysztof Siewicz and Alek Tarkowski, Creative Commons Polska coordinators, ...

Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Main Office are pleased to announce the launch of the Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing. The online guide is directed to small independent teams and provides practical information on planning, setting up, launching, publishing and managing an open access scholarly journal. Users can take advantage of additional resources in ...

Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now available at the the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) Internet Television: http://tv.umk.pl/?id=539

Presentations from the IInd International conference Open Access in Poland are online. Among the speakers - Alma Swan and Bernard Rentier from EOS, Claire Bundy from Open Repository and Maria Romano from BioMed Central, Jan Andrzej Nikisch and Iryna Kuchma from eIFL.net, Marcin Werla from Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Alek Tarkowski from the ...

October 18 to 24 has been selected for International Open Access Week 2010. Please stay tuned to this site for updates on the program and registration when it opens.