Legal, economic, and technological pressures involved were reviewed as well the ways to preserve and promote public domain and open access to science and technology data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

UNESCO: SERVICE DE PRESSE

Is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

Celebrating Open Access week, on October 2009, KAUST Library at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, celebrated the Open Access week.

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The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.

ECONOMIST: Academic journals face a radical shake-up

On 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology will be celebrating the Open Access week.

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Faculty of information and computer science, King Fahd University also held a workshop for faculty on Open Access and open source.

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In the debut issue of a new open access online journal, Euresis, Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard, offers a fascinating essay on Johannes Kepler and his book Astronomia Nova.

FORBES: Kepler, Mars and the Turning Point in Astronomy

On April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository with Open Repository, based on DSpace technology.

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