{"id":24,"date":"2008-10-14T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-10-14T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:16:34","slug":"open-access-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25 alignleft\" title=\"oa_button1\" src=\"http:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oa_button1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oa_button1.jpg 140w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oa_button1-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Today (October 14<sup>th<\/sup>) is the very first Open Access Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.org\/sparc\/media\/08-0828.shtml\">Press Release<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#515151;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u201cSPARC (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 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.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#515151;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color:#515151;\">Open Access is on the rise, according to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/poeticeconomics.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html\"><span style=\"color:#515151;\">Heather Morrison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#515151;\">, \u2018The percentage of the scholarly literature that is freely available online is nearly 20%\u2019 and the recent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer-sbm.de\/index.php?id=291&amp;backPID=131&amp;swords=biomed&amp;L=0&amp;tx_tnc_news=4970&amp;cHash=6c1d53b6a2\"><span style=\"color:#515151;\">acquisition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#515151;\"> of BioMedCentral by Springer seems to suggest commercial publishers are increasingly aware that Open Access can indeed be a sustainable and profit making business model for academic publishing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color:#515151;\">For more information on Open Access, just take a look at Peter Suber\u2019s excellent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/overview.htm\"><span style=\"color:#515151;\">Open Access Overview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#515151;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;color:#515151;font-family:Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (October 14th) is the very first Open Access Day. \u00a0 From the Press Release: \u00a0 \u201cSPARC (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 to publicly funded research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1281],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access","tag-open-access-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}