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Open Access Week
24-30 October
2022 Theme: „Open For Climate Justice”

 

This year’s theme seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries. Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement that the climate crisis has far-reaching effects, and the impacts are “not being borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, people with different backgrounds, older and younger generations,” as the UN notes. These power imbalances also affect communities’ abilities to produce, disseminate, and use knowledge around the climate crisis. Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them.JMJ+MWSrlimbpocumooapoupkog

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Webinars and virtual events (new wondow)
ACS Publications has prepared a series of virtual seminars on the latest developments in Open Access publishing.


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Eco Games: (new window)

  • Plasticity (new window)
    Platform: PC and Mac
    Theme: Waste management and recycling
    Plasticity is an innovative puzzle-platformer about a plastic-ridden world and the choices you make to save it. Play as Noa, a curious young girl who leaves her home in search of a better life. Embark on an emotional journey as your actions dynamically change both gameplay and the story. While each decision carries consequence, few are irreversible—you may stumble, you may fall, but only you can save the world.
    This free game was created by students from the renowned USC Games Program and contains 20-40 minutes of content.
     
  • Ice Flows (new window)
    Platform: Android, iOS, www
    Theme: Climate change
    Ice Flows is based on science - but some elements are fiction in order to make the game fun to play. Here we separate the science from the fiction and give you some hints for answering some of the quiz questions in the game.
    Discovering Antarctica: You may also be interested in this award-winning online learning resource produced in partnership by British Antarctic Survey, the Royal Geographical Society and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Polar Regions Department.
     
  • World Rescue (new window)
    Platform: iOS i Android
    Theme: Global management
    World Rescue is a narrative, research-based video-game inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through fast-paced gameplay set in Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China, you will meet and help five young heroes and help them solve global problems—such as displacement, disease, deforestation, drought, and pollution—at the community level. After all, it’s young global citizens like you who have the power to lead us to a more sustainable world.
     
  • Morphy! (new window)
    Platform: iOS, Android i www
    Theme: Nature education
    Morphy! is a life science game that teaches students that animals have external structures that function to support survival and behavior. Morphy and his fellow alien crew have crash-landed on a foreign planet! His crewmembers evacuated at different times and are now missing. Help Morphy locate the crew members so that they can repair their spaceship. Beware! Morphy can’t survive this planet on his own. Along the way, Morphy will meet creatures with external traits that will help him survive this strange new world. Guide Morphy throughout this journey to save the missing crew.
     
  • Tales of the Tardigrade (new window)
    Platform: Android
    Theme: Biology education
    This game addresses concepts in biology, natural history, evolution, science ethics, and climate change, to name a few. Tales of the Tardigrade gives you a daily dose of insightful learning on a wide assortment of natural history themes. From topical science news items like climate change, to fantastical animals such as the miniscule tardigrade, this app celebrates the biological diversity of the world around us. Play with dinosaurs, examine a human heart, roam the desert, and much more. Each animal or plant is brought to you through an interactive narrative—an evolving story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. You have six nature stories to experience. Interact with the tales in any order you like.
     
  • Mycocosm (new window)
    Platform: Android, iOS, www
    Theme: Ecology
    This game presents the concepts of symbiosis between plants and soil microbes, defense against root pathogens, and plant resource storage and collection. Mycocosm is an arcade-style plant management game where fungi are fast friends and bacteria will cheat you of your precious nutrients. As a plant, your objective is simple: survive and grow. To do so, you'll need access to phosphorous and nitrogen, two difficult to find yet vital elements. Fortunately, wandering fungus spores will trade you these resources in exchange for access to your carbon. Everything comes at a price, however, and these fungi will take what they can and exploit you where possible. Risky offers will begin to flood in, so quick reflexes and wary dealings will be your only chance against the trading onslaught.
     
  • Mission to Planet Earth (new window)
    Platform: www
    Theme: Ecology
    This online card game has you compete against a computer to complete mission to Earth. These missions focus on different aspects of the planet, to further understanding of how Earth's parts work together. The first to complete three missions wins.