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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Forwarded from your OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee for your consideration.<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Andrea Higginbotham [mailto:<a href="mailto:andrea@arl.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">andrea@arl.org</span></a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:sparc-oaforum@arl.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">sparc-oaforum@arl.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [sparc-oaforum] We're Halfway There - White House Petition on Open Access</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The Obama Administration is actively considering taking action to open up the results of research funded by taxpayer
dollars, by making scientific articles freely available online.<br>
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A petition (<a href="http://wh.gov/6TH" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">wh.gov/6TH</span></a>) calling for Public Access to all Federally Funded Research has been posted to the White House "We the People" website. If the petition garners <b>25,000
signatures within 30 days</b>, it <b>will</b> be reviewed by White House staff, and <b>considered for action</b>. <br>
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We’re halfway there – more than 12,500 people have signed the petition since it was posted just two and half days ago! Researchers, patients groups, universities, libraries, students, businesses and families have all thrown their support behind this simple
yet powerful idea – to make taxpayer-funded research freely accessible to the public. Learn more about why by watching this one-minute video (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoYxzPZDuw" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoYxzPZDuw</span></a>).<br>
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Sign the petition (<a href="http://wh.gov/6TH" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">wh.gov/6TH</span></a>) today, and encourage your colleagues, friends and family to do the same. You are eligible to sign if you are at least 13 years old, and have a valid
email address. That’s all.<br>
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Signing is easy, it’s fast, and it can have an enormous impact on our chances of expanding access to the results of scientific research that we have helped to fund. So take some time today to not only sign onto the petition, but to spread the word far and wide.
Consider a blog post, an email to constituencies, a tweet (use #openaccess), a Facebook share, an action in your library or on your campus - anything that tells as many people as possible "I support this petition, I'm signing this petition, and you should,
too." <br>
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Thanks in advance for your support for this effort - it is truly a critical time, and taking this action now *can* make a difference!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Andrea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">-- <br>
Andrea Brusca Higginbotham<br>
Communications Manager, SPARC<br>
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800<br>
Washington, DC 20036<br>
<a href="tel:%28202%29%20296-2296%20ext%20121" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">(202) 296-2296 ext 121</span></a><br>
<a href="mailto:andrea@arl.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">andrea@arl.org</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.arl.org/sparc</span></a><br>
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Open Access Week 2012<br>
October 22-28<br>
<a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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