This week is Open Access Week.

What are you doing in support of a more open system in sharing the world information, including Journal Articles. You can share a word in your Journal Club and to your colleagues. You can also commit to put action in one way or another as many have already done. Link. http://www.action.openaccessweek.org/

Are you available on Friday morning? You can attend OpenCon 2016 Nairobi. It is a satellite conference of the main OpenCon 2016 this November in Washington DC. http://www.opencon2016.org/

Training- the- Trainers programme will be a four hour training of OA advocates to strengthen their capacity championing for open access and open science. Training- the- trainers will be a platform bringing together post graduate students (masters and PhD) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) advocating for open access and open science from Ruaraka in Nairobi with the aim of training OA ambassadors. This training will provide a good platform to roll out OA training initiative to a large number of students and ECRs in higher learning institutions as well as research institutes/ departments.

One of the key speakers will be Iryna Kuchma, the Program Manager of Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).

RSVP to Lilian Juma the organiser at http://www.opencon2016.org/lilian/opencon_2016_nairobi?recruiter_id=6595

You can also listen in to a conversation on government, university and you on OA on Thursday, October 27th at :30PM Eastern (US) time. Join the live stream http://pi.tt/openinaction Read more about the event here:  http://openaccess.pitt.edu/event/open-action-government-university-and-you 

Please circulate widely.

Happy Open Access Week 2016 (October 24 -30th) http://openaccessweek.org/

Jane