October 24th – 30th 2016 is international Open Access Week.

The theme for Open Access Week this year is “Open in Action”.  You can read more at the International Open Access Week website: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action

We will be running a number of events at Bangor University during Open Access Week, as follows:

24th October 2-4pm: The Cledwyn Room 3/TCR3:  Open event on Sensitive Research Data

Guest speakers:

·         Professor Mark Elliot, Professor of Data Science, Manchester University and UK Anonymisation Network (via videoconference)

·         Dr Catrin Tudur Smith, Reader in Medical Statistics, Liverpool University, title of talk: Good practice principles for sharing individual participant data from publicly funded clinical trials

Email c.a.roberts@bangor.ac.uk to book a place

25th October 2-3pm Alun building A1.01: Postgraduate training session on Open Access Publishing

Covers the principles of open access publishing, funder requirements, and how to make your articles open access at Bangor. Register online at https://www.bangor.ac.uk/doctoral-school/training.php.en or email pgr@bangor.ac.uk

26th October The Cledwyn Room 3/TCR3: 2-3pm: Staff training session: REF and Open Access

This session will detail the requirements for Open Access and the next REF to ensure eligibility of outputs for submission using the University’s Research Information Management system, PURE.

Email c.a.roberts@bangor.ac.uk to book a place

Information about previous Open Access weeks:

In 2013 we hosted Phil Sykes (University librarian at Liverpool University and representing the Open Access Implementation Group/OAIG and Research Libraries UK/RLUK) and Ben Ryan (Senior Manager, Research Outcomes at EPSRC).

In 2014 for International Open Access week, we hosted Ben Johnson (Higher Education Policy Adviser at HEFCE), Roger Tritton (who talked about JISC Collections’ work in exploring potential business models for humanities and social sciences (HSS) open access monographs), and invited three publishers to talk about their options for open access publishing (PLOS, Wiley and BioMed Central).