EFF proudly participated in the eighth annual Open Access Week last week, a celebration of making scholarly research immediately and freely available for people around the world to read, cite, and re-use.
We published multiple blog posts each day, including a post from our friends at Wikimedia and a letter from Colombian scientist, Diego Gomez, who is facing up to eight years in jail for sharing a scholarly article online. One theme that seemed to run across all blog posts was that open access doesn’t exist in a vacuum: there are laws, policies, and happenings in the world that immensely affect our access to research. Copyright law, for example, not only bolsters the current closed access model of scholarship, but its particulars are becoming stricter as policies extend outside the United States. We encourage you to check out all the blog posts below.
Deeplinks
Reddit AMA
We also participated in a (“Ask Me Anything”) about open access alongside Creative Commons, the Right to Research Coalition, Open Access Button, and Fundación Karisma. Questions ranged from to
Events
Groups around the world by throwing parties, talks, and screenings of the documentary about Aaron Swartz, . We were excited to see Open Access Week serve as the inaugural event for two new digital rights groups: The and .
Shareable Graphics
We collaborated with artist and graphic designer, , to create some graphics to share on social media. These graphics portray a few leaders in the open access movement with their thoughts about why we need to fight for open access. These all licensed under a , so feel free to remix and share online.
