FYI
Cable
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For Immediate Release
September 24, 2012
For more information, contact:
Andrea Higginbotham
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(202) 296-2296
or
Devika Levy
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*SPARC and the World Bank Announce Speakers for Open Access Week 2012
Kickoff Webcast – “Perspectives on Open Access: Practice, Progress and
Pitfalls” *
Washington, DC – September 24, 2012 - SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank are pleased to announce
the speakers for their co-sponsored kickoff event for Open Access Week
2012. The event will take place Monday, October 22, 4pm - 5:30pm, at the
World Bank in Washington, DC.
The distinguished panel of speakers is comprised of experts from the
broad range of stakeholders in the Open Access movement: researchers,
students, policy makers, publishers and academics. The following speakers
will discuss why Open Access is an imperative to them, and to their work:
• Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board
Member, Creative Commons
• Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional
Students
• Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member,
PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH
• Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
• Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural
Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive
Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience
members. Immediately following the question and answer session, SPARC will
sponsor a reception for those attending and participating in the panel
discussion. Registration is only required for in-person attendance and can
be done by emailing Andrea Higginbotham at SPARC. To view the webcast and
participate in the live blog, simply go to the World Bank’s Live portal (
http://live.worldbank.org/world-bank-and-sparc-announce-open-access-week-2012-liveblog-webcast?cid=EXT_TwitterWBPubs_P_EXT
).
Open Access Week is now in its sixth year, and offers an opportunity for
the academic and research community to continue to learn about
the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned
with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make
Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. Last year’s Open Access
Week featured events in more than 130 countries. This year’s theme, “Set
the Default to Open Access,” will continue to advance the global
conversation, and showcase the many steps taken all over the world towards
Open Access initiatives. For information about Open Access week events and
information please go to http://www.openaccessweek.org.
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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800
academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of
scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational, and publisher
partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is
on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to
developing countries around the world. The World Bank was recently
named a SPARC Innovator for its implementation of a new open access policy,
which included the launch of the World Bank Open
Knowledge Repository (OKR). The World Bank opened its data to the public in
2010. For more information on World Bank open development tools and
resources, visit www.worldbank.org/open.
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Cable Green, PhD
Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/education
http://twitter.com/cgreen
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