First Aid Open Access
- Please note: the round table discussion of 28 October at the Faculty of Social Sciences has been cancelled. Still, Open Access Week has been a great success: so far over 300 publications have been added to the Leiden Repository. After 28 October, you will read thefull report of Open Access Week on the library website. The week from 19 till 28 October is the Open Access Week. All over the world academic institutes will organise events to show how and why scientific publications can be made freely available online. As in Leiden.
- Open Access Doctor
- In Leiden the Open Access Team will help scientists with uploading their publications to the internet; a team of OA doctors, recognizable by their Open Access T-shirts, will do their rounds in the faculties to provide information and personal assistance to the scientist. They will visit the different faculties on the following days:
- Programme
Humanities 19 and 27 October Social and Behavioural Sciences 22 and 26 October Law 20 October Archaeology 21 and 26 October
- The week shall be concluded on Wednesday 28 October with a prizedraw among the people who have submitted publications to the Leids Repositorium during Open Access Week Leiden. The round-table discussion that was planned for 28 Octoebr has been cancelled.
- Registration
- You can sign up now for both activities with the online form (in Dutch). More information on Open Access Leiden, the Open Access Week and uploading publications can be found on the library website.
- Benefits of Open Access
- Open Access Leiden takes care of disclosing the scientific publications in the Leiden Repository. This way research data becomes available for everyone; knowledge can be shared easily and quickly. The research is also found and downloaded more often. The Open Access Week Leiden will be an excellent opportunity for scientist to make their publications available online for the whole world to see.
- Theme site Open Access
- Visit our Special: Open Access site. On this temporary site you can find links to online information about Open Access: background information, answers to frequently asked questions, and videos. Due to the large amount of information it may take a few seconds until all is visible.
The special site is available until 1 December 2009 on the occassion of Open Access Week. The site refers you to online information that stays online as much as possible. Therefore you can add the URL of interesting links to your favourites. The URL of our special site will not be available anymore after 1 December 2009.
