[BOAI] Google Doodle for Open Access Week

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Rob Ingram.  --Peter Suber.]


 ** Apologies for cross-posting **



Dear Colleagues

In the run-up to Open Access Week, 18th-24th October 2010, it would be great
to raise awareness of the event for a wider community.  We thought that one
way to achieve this would be by proposing the week as a subject for a Google
Doodle for their main home page or the home page of Google Scholar.  Since
Google will receive large numbers of suggestions for Doodles it would help
if the OA community could join us in lobbying Google to consider OA week.

To make a suggestion for the Doodle simply email Google at
proposals at google.com.

Suggested email text:

The week of October 18th is international Open Access week, with events and
activities taking place world-wide on university and research campuses. We
believe that Open Access, researchers making their research articles
available for free to all,  is an exciting and important shift in the
availability of research for scholars and the public. We would like to
support the idea of a Google Doodle on Open Access for this week.

Regards,

                Rob.

-- 

Rob Ingram



Technical Developer (RSP)



Centre for Research Communications

University of Nottingham

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rob.ingram at nottingham.ac.uk



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