From: Andrea Higginbotham <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:55:04 -0500
Thought you may be interested in Tuesday's webcast!
Andrea Brusca Higginbotham
Communications Manager, SPARC
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
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www.arl.org/sparc
Open Access Week 2014
October 20-26
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
NEW! SPARC Daily: http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809
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Webcast Invitation: Open Access Developments in Latin America
Another free SPARC online event
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
12:00 - 1:00PM EDT
Registration is free, but required.
Please RSVP by December 6th at:
http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=125
This webcast requires both a phone dial-in and an Internet connection.
Open Access Week events showcased the many ways people across the
globe informed staff, faculty, and students to the benefits of Open
Access. While there have been many advancements made here in the U.S.
and the U.K., developing countries have utilized new publishing models
to capitalize on opening up research results and data. Latin America,
in particular has seen unprecedented surge in advocacy for public
access – Argentina now has legislation that requires all publicly
funded research be available in open access interoperable
institutional repositories.
Using an Open Access peer-review model for their repository, the
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) has gained a positive
reputation across the globe –now has on average over one million
articles downloaded from the their site each day and their journals
currently boast almost 10 million citations.
Our guest speaker, Nicholas Cop, is the Founder and President of
Nicholas Cop Consulting, LLC and consultant on the SciELO program.
SciELO began in 1998 as an e-journal initiative funded by the São
Paulo Research Foundation. SciELO publishes over 1000 journal titles
mainly from Latin America and Caribbean but also including Portugal,
Spain and South Africa.
Nicholas will provide background and updates on Open Access in Latin
America and the many developments SciELO is undertaking.
To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be
recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.
Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion. SPARC’s
Communications Manager, Andrea Higginbotham, will be moderating
questions during the webcast.
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