I am swamped with deadlines this week, but by the weekend I could do it. If anyone else is available on behalf of the national group, I would much appreciate the effort. Further, I think there is room for individual chapters to send messages as well.
- Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Parker Phinney" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 12:18 pm Subject: [FC-discuss] Fwd: [r2rc-members] NIH Call to Action To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Max Klein" <[email protected]> matt or someone else, want to write such a letter on behalf of SFC? we'd send it off to the right office(s) and cross-post it to our main blog. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:03 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Open access call to action > > - Matt > > ----- Forwarded message ----- > From: "Nick Shockey" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 11:40 am > Subject: [r2rc-members] NIH Call to Action > To: "R2RC Members' Discussion" <[email protected]> > > Hey everyone, > > We have just issued a call to action around the 3rd anniversary of the NIH > public access policy as an opportunity both to extend the policy and shorten > its embargo period. I hope that each of you can find some time between now > and April 7th to write a short letter to each of our 3 target offices (NIH, > OSTP, and HHS) on behalf of your organization, and please forward me a copy > of the letter when you send it. April 14th is the deadline, but it would be > best if you could get it in by the 7th, which is the actual anniversary. > We've been having productive conversations with these offices, so there is > a real opportunity here. > > You can find background info, talking points, and contact information for > each office here: http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/NIHanniversary.shtml > > Finally, I would appreciate your or your organization's help in getting the > word out about this call to action, so any posts on Twitter, Facebook, email > lists, etc would be great. > > Let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing your > great letters! > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > Nick Shockey > Director, Right to Research Coalition > Director of Student Advocacy, SPARC > [email protected] > +01 202 296 2296 x116 > Skype: nick.shockey > http://www.righttoresearch.org > http://www.arl.org/sparc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- http://www.madebyparker.com
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