Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will be celebrating the Open Access Week with a strong 'global' focus spanning four continents. Open Access Week, which runs from October 24-30, is a global event which promotes the benefits of open access (OA) publishing.
Commencing just before Open Access Week is OA Publishing in Africa: free online workshop, a webinar held in association with EIFL. BioMed Central's Head of Sales, Calum Land, will review the development of OA publishing in Africa and outline the objectives of Open Access Africa, a set of initiatives launched by the publisher earlier this year to increase the visibility of research from African institutes.
Open Access Africa 2011, a free conference hosted by BioMed Central in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), will run from October 25-26, 2011. The conference is expected to raise awareness of OA among African researchers and foster discussion about how to ensure African research receives the international recognition it deserves. Representatives from Google, British Medical Journal, African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Pan African Medical Journal, Development for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will review OA publishing in Africa from library, funding and technology perspectives.
BioMed Central has been invited to speak at the Internet Librarian International 2011 conference in London. Also, 'An institution's response to open access,' will be presented at OA events in Sweden including the University of Stockholm and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
A historical overview of OA publishing in the context of 'open' movements and implications for future scholarly publishing will be given during the week at University of Manitoba, George Mason University, University of Virginia and City University of New York. BioMed Central will also be delivering presentations in Shanghai at BioMed Central Member Institution Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Open Access Korea conference.
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