[BOAI] Help Promote the Open Access White House Petition

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Andrea Higginbotham]

Hello All!

We're on our way to surpassing 20,000 signatures on the White House Open
Access petition  - in just one week!  - and we need your help to close this
out successfully.

To help drive this effort  home, please consider sending out one more email
blast to your contact lists. This is a truly effective way of not only
getting the word out, but also of showing your support.  Consider a "+1"
email request  - encouraging those on your network who have already signed
to recruit a friend or colleague to sign, to be their "+1." It's a great
way to include new voices into the mix!

Our social media efforts have been phenomenally effective - Twitter is
aglow with references to
#openaccess<https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23openaccess>
 and #OAMonday <https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23OAMonday> so please use
these hashtags if you tweet. Facebook is also a great way of getting the
petition link out to all of your friends - you can add a link directly to
the petition in your Facebook posting to make it easy for folks to sign.

Here are a few links to include in your email blasts, and to spread far and
wide in your social media endeavors:

*The Petition: *
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ

*Short URL to Petition for Tweets:* wh.gov/6TH
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*Banner Ads to use on your Websites/Blogs:*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/white-house-open-access-petition-support-banners-f.shtml

Thank you so much for your continual help with this campaign! And please
let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Andrea

-- 
Andrea Brusca Higginbotham
Communications Manager, SPARC
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
andrea at arl.org
www.arl.org/sparc

Open Access Week 2012
October 22-28
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

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