[BOAI] Webcast Invitation: Open Access Developments in Latin America with Nicholas Cop Dec.10th

[Andrea Higginbotham]

Thought you may be interested in Tuesday's webcast!

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 <heather at arl.org>
www.arl.org/sparc

*Open Access Week 2014*
October 20-26
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

NEW! SPARC Daily: http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809
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*Webcast Invitation: Open Access Developments in Latin America*

Another free SPARC online event Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
12:00 - 1:00PM EDT
Registration is free, but required.
Please RSVP by December 6th at:
http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=125
This webcast requires both a phone dial-in and an Internet connection.

Open Access Week events showcased the many ways people across the globe
informed staff, faculty, and students to the benefits of Open Access. While
there have been many advancements made here in the U.S. and the U.K.,
developing countries have utilized new publishing models to capitalize on
opening up research results and data. Latin America, in particular has seen
unprecedented surge in advocacy for public access – Argentina now has
legislation that requires all publicly funded research be available in open
access interoperable institutional repositories.

Using an Open Access peer-review model for their repository, the Scientific
Electronic Library Online (SciELO) has gained a positive reputation across
the globe –now has on average over one million articles downloaded from the
their site each day and their journals currently boast almost 10 million
citations.

Our guest speaker, Nicholas Cop, is the Founder and President of Nicholas
Cop Consulting, LLC and consultant on the SciELO program. SciELO began in
1998 as an e-journal initiative funded by the São Paulo Research
Foundation. SciELO publishes over 1000 journal titles mainly from Latin
America and Caribbean but also including Portugal, Spain and South Africa.

Nicholas will provide background and updates on Open Access in Latin
America and the many developments SciELO is undertaking.

To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be
recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.

Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion. SPARC’s
Communications Manager, Andrea Higginbotham, will be moderating questions
during the webcast.
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