BMJ Open is proudly sponsoring Open Access Week 2011.

A global event, now in its fifth year, Open Access Week promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. The website currently lists 119 upcoming events so have a look to see what is happening near you or browse their back catalogue of presentations and videos.

BMJ Open is the BMJ Group’s latest involvement with open access publishing, following the BMJ’s long-standing commitment to making its research open access and our specialty journals’ well-established Unlocked programme.

All BMJ Open articles are open access under a Creative Commons licence. As well as Open Access Week, BMJ Open and the BMJ Group also supports the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and deposits all its open access content with PubMed Central.