Following the initiative of  the Open Access Day in 2008, this year we celebrate the Open Access Week during the 19th and 23rd of October and once again, the Office for Knowledge Dissemination participates to this international event adopting the motto “Open your knowledge and share it” to bring out what is open access.

Last Year the Office for Knowledge Dissemination published a guide about open access and now, this year we have edited a book mark. And organising conferences with the collaboration of the CRAI Libraries about the tools like repositories or open access journals, which are accessible to researchers to open and share their scientific knowledge.

The Library of Economics has prepared a poster to disseminate the idea of Open Access among faculty and students.

The main event of the week is going to be on the 21st of October, at 12 pm at the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona with the title “The dissemination of the research in open access”. The act will be presented by the vice rector for Scientific Policy, Dr. Teresa Anguera and by the delegate of the rector, the coordinator of the Information and Documentation Systems, Dr. Carina Rey.

There will be two conferences:

What does it mean uploading your thesis in TDX? Procedure and consequences of doing it. 

Dr. Ignasi Labastida, Head of the Office for Knowledge Dissemination of CRAI UB

RACO: Portal of open journals

Mrs. Judith Casals, Head of CRAI UB Projects Unit.

In between, the technical director of CBUC Mrs. Lluís Anglada and Mr. Miquel Huguet representing CESCA, are going to deliver the certificates of the 6000th and 7000th thesis and the certificates of the most consulted three theses at the TDX repository

The other acts included the Open Access Week program are:

Tuesday, 20th of October, 1 pm
Library of Biology, Hall S2
“Open Access Journals: BioMad Central’s Case”
Mrs. Rosa Zaborras and Mr. Manel Ibáñez, CRAI of UB

Thursday, 22nd of October
10:30 pm, Library of Physics and Chemistry, Computing Hall
"ArXiV: 18 years of sharing scientific knowledge openly”
Dr. José Ignacio Latorre, Department of Structure and Constituents of the Matter UB

Thursday 22nd of October
14 pm, School of Medicine- Casanova, Hall 11
“Open Access Journals: BioMad Central’s Case”
Mrs. Rosa Zaborras and Mr. Manel Ibáñez, CRAI of UB

Friday 23rd of October
12 pm. School of Law, Seminar Hall 3
“Intellectual creation and law”
Dr. Joan Marsal, Department of Civil Law,UB

We hope that this week would help to bring together the open access with the scientific community and we all could enjoy the scientific knowledge without any restrictions.

To see all the scheduled programs you can consult to the 1st Open Access Week at UB Poster.