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Open Access Week, a global event now entering its sixth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward. More informationOpen Access Week 2013 in ChinaEvent date:21 Oct 2013 - 23 Oct 2013Following up last year’s successful Open Access (OA) Week – the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will host a conference "China Open Access Week 2013" in Beijing on October 21 - 23, 2013.The conference will focus on national developments in open access institutional repositories (IR) and open access publishing, as well as on synergies within the open data and open educational resources movements. More information