China Open Access Week

National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will host China Open Access Week on October 22-26, 2012 in Beijing, China.

The open access (OA) movement plays an increasingly important role for widest distribution of knowledge and for ensuring the rights of public for access to knowledge. The dramatic growth of OA journals and OA repositories, backed up by the fast rising support from research communities and more and more research funders, help make OA now an inevitability. China, as one of the largest research consumer countries as well as research producer countries, understand its responsibility and hence has been active in promoting open access to its research output, resulting in fast development of OA research journals and OA repositories. To further facilitate the development of OA policies, resources, and supporting infrastructures, the National Science Library is to organize the China Open Access Week to review the development trends, share experiences and best practices, discuss policies, and develop facilitation and enhancement strategies.

This year's China Open Access Week consists of three events: 

• China IR Day, which will introduce the international development and summarize the trends, best practices, and challenges in Chinese institutional repositories (IR) development. The target audience would be directors from research and educational institutes, library directors, and IR managers.

• China OA Publishing Day, which will invite international OA journal publishers to articulate their strategies and practices, and analyze the OA challenges for Chinese research journals. The target audience would be Chinese journal publishers and related policy, regulation, and research people.

• China OA Policy Forum, which, as a special event, will discuss the policy and implementation challenges for open access to publicly funded research in China. Agencies responsible for research policies and funding will be invited to participate.

EIFL Open Access Programme manager will present on IR Support Policy Analysis during Institutional Repository Day on October 22, 2012, on International OA Publishing Trends during Open Access Publishing Day on October 24, 2012 and will participate in the panel discussion for the Day.

Contact person: Ms. Li Lin (lilin[@]mail.las.ac.cn).

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