Welcome to Open Access Week 2009, from SPARC

Welcome to Open Access Week 2009, from SPARC from Jennifer McLennan on Vimeo.

SPARC is a proud co-organizer of Open Access Week 2009 and is pleased to offer this welcome to the global celebrations, to be held October 19 - 23, 2009. See openaccessweek.org for details. In addition to a welcome and thanks to organizers, partners, and participants, SPARC principals cast the Week in the context of the international movement toward free, open, online, and immediate access to the results of scholarly research. Ideal way to open your week or your session, or to spread the word by email.

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A short, but informative introduction by Heather Joseph and Jennifer McLennan from SPARC.

Ways to keep up with Open Access Week 2009

1) Follow events via the Official Open Access Week website
2) Page, Events celebrating Open Access Week wiki on the Open Access Directory
3) Open Access News Website and also OATP via Twitter
4) Twitter, via the official hashtag #oaw09
5) Friendfeed, via the Open Access Week Room

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Spinning back, some previous related McBlawg posts:-

1) Open Access Day on FriendFeed Oct 4th '08


2) 'Open Access Week': Some Posts from the Blogosphere April 13th '08