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Lot’s of fabulous things have been going on across the sector to celebrate Open Access Week 2019. Here are a small selection…

The publishers have also been getting involved with numerous events, one of note is Royal Society Publishing who made all their content free to access this week. You can browse journals here.

Our international, peer reviewed journals publish high quality science and provide an excellent service to our authors and readers.

It's #OpenAccessWeek 2019, which means all of our content is free to access all week. Browse our Journals: https://t.co/qgZXq1Rjdp @RSocPublishing pic.twitter.com/xQvJWo54RA

— The Royal Society (@royalsociety) October 21, 2019

Southampton University hosted a A Very Short Introduction to Open Access using Biscuits –

We are using biscuits to represent different models of OA, based on an idea by @ginjabookchick #OAbiscuit #OAWeek2019 pic.twitter.com/dsXDqYGagP

— UniSouthamptonLib (@UniSotonLibrary) October 21, 2019

Edge Hill University hosted as a webinar with Open Book Publishers. This non-profit organisation publishes academic books on an OA basis and doesn’t charge authors fees to use the service.

Open Access Week has been truly international with events across the globe:

OA week by Open Access Bangladesh 2019 pic.twitter.com/uwit9Wr39V

— Annie Cruze (@Annie170385) October 16, 2019

UoEm Library welcomes all students and staff to this year's International Open Access Week. This is an annual International event aimed at promoting access to electronic Information resources.#oaweek2019 #MondayMotivation #UoEm pic.twitter.com/0tNs1xOuVc

— University of Embu (@UoEmbu) October 21, 2019

To end, here is a lovely quote posted by University of Tennessee which reminds us why open access matters…

It's #OpenAccessWeek! Want to know why open, public access to your research and scholarship matters @UTKnoxville? Here's one answer from an East Tennessee nonprofit organization who attended a workshop at UT's University Libraries. Talk to us (@UTKLibraries) about open access. pic.twitter.com/Hm3kqKOcY6

— Rachel Caldwell (@TheLibIsOpen) October 21, 2019