[BOAI] Students call for institutional green OA mandates (fwd)

[Stevan Harnad]

Below, forwarded by Gavin Baker at SPARC, is the announcement of a very
welcome and useful student statement in support of institutional OA
mandates.

     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
     From: Gavin Baker gavin -- arl.org

     Prof. Harnad,

     I wanted to call your attention to the just-released Student Statement
     on The Right to Research, endorsed by several national student
     organizations and supported by SPARC, which calls for universities
     to adopt open access policies:

     http://www.righttoresearch.org/

     This adds students' voices to those of faculty and librarians in
     support of institutional OA mandates.

     I appreciate any help you can give in spreading the word.

     Thanks,

     Gavin Baker
     Outreach Fellow
     Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
     http://www.arl.org/sparc/
     tel: +1 (407) 929-5657
     gavin -- arl.org
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I would also draw students' attention to the article "The University's
Mandate to Mandate Open Access," which I wrote at Gavin's invitation in
Open Students: 
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/02/08/open-students-oa-for-the-next-generation/

   -- SH