As a library and information professional, all you need to do is to promote creation, deployment, mobilization and utilization of OA resources to your users groups, particularly to young researchers, academics and students communities. P.43
International Open Access Week – Global Celebration The International Open Access Week, initiated in 2008 by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), is celebrated worldwide every year in the month of October for advocacy, policy campaign, promotion and awareness raising on issues related to open access to scholarly literature, open science data and selfarchiving. There are instances of stakeholders’ participation in events around the OA Week and their interactions help them in clearing doubts of the audiences and prospective OA contributors. This Week also helps in engaging students, young learners, young scholars and early career researchers for attracting them in creation and utilization of open access literature. Many intergovernmental agencies such as United Nations, UNESCO, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and several international civil society organizations have been celebrating OA Week globally as well as locally for actively promoting OA knowledge resources produced by them and their partner organizations.