Writes Karen Rustad on our blog: Last year, [Students for Free Culture participated in the National Open Access Day of Action][1], as part of a successful push to [pass the NIH bill][2]. This year, we're doing it again: together with allies [SPARC][3] and [PLoS][4], SFC has signed on to 2008 Open Access Day, celebrating our progress in opening access to research and pushing for further gains.
Want to participate? SPARC and PLoS are making it easy. If your university library is on [the list of participating libraries][5] (updated regularly), contact them and see what you can do to help. If your library isn't there, encourage them to sign up, or host an event on your own. We are organizing a [video webcast][6] with a Nobel laureate and a PLoS journal editor-in-chief on October 14 at 7 PM EST and 7 PM PST. We're also working on a "Voices of Open Access" video series for you to screen. It's true that Open Access Day is falling just a couple days after the end of the Students for Free Culture conference. However, I will be at the conference as a SPARC representative, and folks from PLoS may also be in attendance, so we can bring swag and start a dialogue about open access while we're in Berkeley. And once you get home, all you need to do is buy snacks and tune into the webcast-it's an event-in-a-box! Besides the webcast and videos, there are plenty of other activities you could do with your chapter for Open Access day. [Here are some ideas from last year][7]. Get creative! If your chapter is participating, [register here][8] on the Open Access Day blog to get information on how to tune into the webcast, hear other OA Day planning tips, and win some cool swag from PLoS! [1]: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release07-0201.html [2]: http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/01/14/victories-for-open- access/ [3]: http://www.arl.org/sparc/ [4]: http://www.plos.org/ [5]: http://openaccessday.org/librarians/ [6]: http://openaccessday.org/program/ [7]: http://openaccessday.org/2008/09/04/students-and-libraries- joining-forces-on-open-access-day/ [8]: http://openaccessday.org/contact/ URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/09/08/open-access-day-is-october-14/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
