Wessex Institute of Technology papers published through 2009 available on Open Access basis in WIT Press e-library

This is from their marketing department. WIT Press publishes some proceedings that cover mathematics and statistics.
One needs to register for a free account to be able to access the papers. I registered and the pdfs seem to download fine.
A more direct link is: http://library.witpress.com/

WIT Press has announced that, effective immediately, Wessex Institute of Technology papers in their e‑library published from 1993 through 2009 are available on an Open Access basis.

The Wessex Institute of Technology is making the papers Open Access in order to ensure the widest dissemination of papers presented at WIT Conferences.

The WIT Press e-library consists of six sets of Transactions containing papers presented at Wessex Institute of Technology conferences, as follows:

• Biomedicine and Health
• The Built Environment
• Ecology and the Environment
• Engineering Sciences
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Modelling and Simulation

A seventh set of Transactions, State of the Art in Science & Engineering, contains selected chapters from WIT Press books on the latest developments in various fields of science and engineering.

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Please follow this link to the WIT Press website to see more information:

http://www.witpress.com/

Open Access Week Oct. 18-22

Join Libraries and Cultural Resources for Open Access Week
October 18-22, 2010

The library will have talks and displays addressing open access. The schedule is available at:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/-faculty/open-access/open-access-week-2010
... including guest speaker Jean-Claude Guidon from Université de Montréal

What is Open Access? See 10 Key Things About Open Access and Open Access Week:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/news/news/10-key-things-about-open-access-and-open-access-week

Open Access Week - October 19-23

http://www.openaccessweek.org/about-the-week/

The University of Calgary is a leader in Open Access movement. It was the first in North America to establish the Open Access Authors fund; it has an institutional repository, open digitization sites with primary source materials, a University Press that provides a full range of publishing options, and the Synergies project which assists social sciences and humanities journal to go online.

As an introduction to Open Access week
Andrew Waller (Serials Librarian) will review the current state of Open Access
Oct. 15, 2009
Information Commons Classroom B, MacKimmie Library
9-10 or 10-11 am
All are welcome

What are the real opportunities of Open Access?
Join Libraries and Cultural Resources for this presentation:
October 23, 2009
2pm
Cassio Rooms A+B
MacEwan Student Centre