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Open Access Week 2011 will take place all over the world between October 24 and 30. In future, Open Access Week will be the last *full* week of October:
2012: Oct 22 - 28
2013: Oct 21 - 27
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News Sources
- Open Access News Blog by Peter Suber
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SPARC enews
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition -
DRIVER Open Access News Page
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research - Open Letter on Open Access, September 23, 2009
Of Interest
- Response from the University of California to the Public statement from Nature Publishing Group regarding subscription renewals at the California Digital Library, June 10, 2010
- Public Statement from Mature Publishing Group regarding subscrition renewals at California Digital Library, June 9, 2010
- Open Letter on Open Access, September 23, 2009
- Breakthrough on Open Access, September 15, 2009
- Compact for Open-access Publishing Equity
"University of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs"
By Jennifer Howard
The University of California system has said "enough" to the Nature Publishing Group, one of the leading commercial scientific publishers, over a big proposed jump in the cost of the group's journals.
On Tuesday, a letter went out to all of the university's faculty members from the California Digital Library, which negotiates the system's deals with publishers, and the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. The letter said that Nature proposed to raise the cost of California's license for its journals by 400 percent next year. If the publisher won't negotiate, the letter said, the system may have to take "more drastic actions" with the help of the faculty. Those actions could include suspending subscriptions to all of the Nature Group journals the California system buys access to67 in all, including Nature.
Read the article in The Chronicle.
