APhD Comics special for Open Access Week 2012A cake baked for Open Access Week 2010 celebrations at theUniversity of Lincoln, featuring theOpen Access logoA web banner (in Swedish) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon during Open Access Week 2015A stencil and a card with the text "Open Access Week"
Open Access Week is an annualscholarly communication event focusing onopen access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement ofopen access mandates or other milestones in open access. For instance, theRoyal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating from 1665 to 1941.[1]
Open Access Week has its roots in theNational Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States byStudents for Free Culture and theAlliance for Taxpayer Access.[3]In 2008, October 14 was designatedOpen Access Day, and the event became global.[4] In 2009, the event was expanded to a week, from October 19–23.[5] In 2010, it took place from October 18–24.[6] From 2011 onwards, it is taking place at the last full week of October each year.[7]
In the early years, organisations celebrating Open Access Week set their own themes. Since 2012, an 'official' theme was established and received special attention at the corresponding kick-off events held at theWorld Bank.
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