Octo­ber 14, 2008 was the world’s first Open Access Day!

SPARC (the Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coali­tion), the Pub­lic Library of Sci­ence (PLoS), and Stu­dents for FreeCul­ture have jointly announced the first inter­na­tional Open Access Day. Build­ing on the world­wide momen­tum toward Open Access (OA) to pub­licly funded research, Open Access Day will cre­ate a key oppor­tu­nity for the higher edu­ca­tion com­mu­nity and the gen­eral pub­lic to under­stand more clearly the oppor­tu­ni­ties of wider access and use of con­tent. Open Access Day will help to broaden aware­ness and under­stand­ing of OA, includ­ing recent man­dates and emerg­ing poli­cies, within the inter­na­tional higher edu­ca­tion com­mu­nity and the gen­eral pub­lic.
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