October 10th: worldwide Open Access Day

Open Access Week, 24 to 30 October

Open Access Week, starting 24 October 2016, is a worldwide event established to promote the potential benefits of open access and to foster wider participation in helping to make open access the norm in research and information sharing. In its eighth year, Open Access Week presents an opportunity for funding bodies, universities and others to use the context to advance policy changes in favour ...

A multilingual approach for promoting worldwide open access to law

Internationalization and increasing globalization of market economy and social patterns of life have created a situation where the need for legal information from foreign countries and from different legal systems is greater than ever before. This requirement is not new, but it is now becoming more and more crucial and hard to meet under the pressure of the rapid and complex cross-border transa...

Announcement: Global Handwashing Day — October 15, 2017

October 12, 2017 is World Arthritis Day (http://www. worldarthritisday.org). First observed in 1996, World Arthritis Day serves as a focus for organizations and individuals to work toward increasing awareness of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions worldwide. In the United States, 54 million adults (1) have some form of arthritis or other rheumatic condition. By 2040, the number of adults w...

World Stroke Day — October 29, 2014

Global Handwashing Day — October 15, 2014

The 7th annual Global Handwashing Day will be observed October 15, 2014. This observance increases awareness and understanding of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent disease around the world. Handwashing with soap has an important role to play in child survival and health. Approximately 2.2 million children aged <5 years die each year from diarrheal diseases and ...