Open Access Week

The launch was timed to coincide with Open Access Week.

Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open access and related topics.

In October 2012 members performed a show debate for Open Access Week at the Queensland Brain Institute.

For instance, the Royal Society chose Open Access Week 2011 to announce that they would release the digitized backfiles of their archives, dating back from 1665 till 1941.

Details of Open Access Week events are recorded in the "Open Access Week" section of the Open Access Directory, organized by country and institution.

Open Access Week has its roots in the National Day of Action for Open Access on February 15, 2007, organized across the United States by Students for Free Culture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

On October 22, 2010, as part of "Open Access Week", the University of Calgary Press released its first open access book, Grey Matters, a Guide for Collaborative Research, available for download under a Creative Commons License.

In 2012, MyScienceWork hold for the first time in France the international Open Access Week and organized two evenings of conferences in Paris, the first one at the University Pierre et Marie Curie and the second one at UNESCO.