Open Access Week

A PhD Comics special for Open Access Week 2012
A cake baked for Open Access Week 2010 celebrations at the University of Lincoln, featuring the Open Access logo
A web banner (in Swedish) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon during Open Access Week 2015
A stencil and a card with the text "Open Access Week"

Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open 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 of open access mandates or other milestones in open access. For instance, the Royal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating from 1665 to 1941.[1]

  1. ^ "Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access". The Royal Society. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2013.()