Open Access Week

It takes place globally during the last full week of October in a multitude of locations both on- and offline.

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.

[3] In 2008, October 14 was designated Open Access Day, and the event became global.

[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 the World Bank.

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"
Example event, a symposium at the University of Arizona , October 25, 2011 [ 2 ]