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<p align="center" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>OGI Launches
Fund to Support Open Access to Genomics Publications</font></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Toronto, May 19, 2010</font></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> – The Ontario Genomics
Institute (OGI) has announced the launch of a new fund to support free and
unrestricted access to scholarly research papers on genomics published in high
impact journals. The </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">OGI Genomics Publication Fund (GPF) </font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">will
contribute up to $3,000 per publication to genomics researchers in Ontario
wishing to make their papers available as Open Access from the earliest date of
publication. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Open Access publication means providing
access to material via the Internet in such a way that the material is free for
all users to read and use.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The GPF, open to researchers at
Ontario-based academic, industry or government institutions, has two
aims: to maximize facile, timely access to key genomics
publications by all stakeholders (funders, the scientific community, students,
teachers and other interested parties); and to increase the profile, visibility
and citations of genomics research conducted in the province and published in
top international journals. OGI anticipates supporting up to 35 Open
Access publications over the next 12 months, either reimbursing special fees
charged by traditional publishers to make individual manuscripts Open Access
from the earliest date of publication, or defraying publication costs for
manuscripts published in Open Access journals. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“This fund is the first of its
kind in targeting potential high impact publications,” commented Dr.
James Till, </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto,
winner of the Lasker Prize for his co-discovery of stem cells, and an advocate
of long standing for Open Access to peer-reviewed research publications</font><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">. “OGI’s program is
targeting those publications with the greatest potential reach. Open
sharing of knowledge should help to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations
and to catalyze further research.” </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Examples of high impact journals on
which the OGI GPF is focused include the </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Public Library of Science</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">
journals, </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Cell</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The Lancet</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Nature</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">New England Journal
of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Genome
Research</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> and </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Science</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, among others. Several
leading life science research funders, such as the National Institutes of
Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Wellcome Trust, require that
publications resulting from research funded by them be made available Open
Access. Many journals, including </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Nature</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> and </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Cell</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, have
agreements with one or more of these funders to make any required publication
Open Access within a defined time frame, either free of charge after a longer
period or for a nominal fee beforehand. Currently, though some Canadian
funders have policies requiring Open Access availability for publications
reporting research they have supported ― the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR), for example, expects Open Access availability of such
papers within six months of earliest date of publication ― no Canadian
funders have announced securing such agreements with the publishers of these journals.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“We hope that the launch of
this fund will act as a catalyst for others to follow suit, and encourage
funders, publishers and researchers to establish Open Access publication as the
default practice,” commented Dr. Christian Burks, President and CEO of
OGI. “We will be monitoring this program, and looking for
opportunities to enhance the rate of Open Access publication from Ontario
researchers and other Canadian researchers.”</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Applications for the GPF can be
submitted any time and support will be given on a first come, first served
basis. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“An awful lot of people in the
scientific community as well as the public have really been disenfranchised in
their ability to access scientific literature,” commented Dr. Richard
Roberts, Chief Scientific Officer of New England Biolabs, and winner of the
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of split genes,
and a champion of Open Access. “Many high schools, colleges,
universities and small businesses simply don’t have the funds to access
the totality of the world’s literature. This has significant
repercussions in terms of encouraging the future generation of scientists and
supporting entrepreneurs, often integral in moving science forward.”</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“The general public also
doesn’t have easy access to publications, which is incredibly unjust
considering it’s their tax dollars that are often funding research and
indirectly paying for the literature through grants,” continued Dr.
Roberts. “Access will help the public understand what the current
treatments are, what trials are taking place and what new medicines might be
available to them. OGI’s new program is one more step towards
making open access the norm.” </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For more information on OGI’s
GPF and application details, visit: </font></span><a href="http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/research/ogi-genomics-publication-fund-gpf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#3333CC"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/research/ogi-genomics-publication-fund-gpf</font></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For a more detailed description of
Open Access literature and links to related information and sites, see:</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3333CC"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm</font></span></a><span style="color:#3333CC"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#3333CC"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">About OGI</font></span></b></span><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is a private, not-for-profit corporation focused
on using world-class research to create strategic genomics resources and
accelerate Ontario’s development of a globally-competitive life sciences
sector. Through its relationship with Genome Canada, the Ontario Ministry
of Research and Innovation (MRI), and other private and public sector partners,
OGI works to: identify, attract and support investment in Ontario-led genomics
research; catalyze access to and the impact of genomics resources; and, raise
the visibility of genomics as well as its impact and associated
issues. <span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For more information on OGI, please visit </font></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.OntarioGenomics.ca" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.OntarioGenomics.ca</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"></span></font></p>
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enquiries:</font></span></b></p>
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Harris-Cartwright</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Corporate
Communications Manager</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">T: +1 (416)
673-6582</font></span></p>
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