From cavlec I learned today that October 14 will be Open Access Day, as proclaimed by SPARC, PLoS, and Students for Free Culture. Exactly what that will mean is a bit up in the air, but there will be some online video appearances, and institutions across the country will be observing the day after their own fashion. There is, of course, a press release with more details.

They have blog badges like the one you see here, promises of downloadable posters to come, and even a t-shirt drawing that I shouldn’t tell you about because I’d really like a t-shirt.

There is a blog post contest that you shouldn’t even enter because Dorothea is planning to win.

Once the smoke clears from the start of school, I plan to put something together on my campus, though I haven’t any idea what that will be.

One thing I plan to do before October 14 is to finally write up the Open Access session that a colleague and I did for CC faculty way back in April. Until that time, here’s the page of information and links we used for that talk.