<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.6667px; ">Annemiek van der Kuil.</span> --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<br>
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold">Researchers learn
about publishing in Open Access journals</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.1pt;line-height:16.0pt"><i><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-style:italic">Higher
education sector organises workshops during International Open Access Week.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.1pt;line-height:15.6pt"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-style:italic">Utrecht</span></font></i><i><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-style:italic">, 7 October 2010</span></font></i><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black"> – </span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">In
the week from <strong><b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal">11 to 15 October</span></font></b></strong>, the Netherlands
will be bringing the benefits of Open Access to the attention of universities
and research institutions by means of seminars, workshops, lectures and film
clips</span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana">.</span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">
</span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/themas/openonderzoek/OpenAccess/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">SURF </span></font></a></span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> is
coordinating the Dutch Open Access week. The programme can be found at </span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.openaccess.nl/" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">www.openaccess.nl</span></font></a></span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">.
The Dutch event is part of International Open Access Week, which involves sixty
countries worldwide. Researchers will be able to see how <font color="black"><span style="color:black">Open Access publishing offers advantages for them and for
their institution, and how publications can be made available in the
institution’s repository.</span></font></span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold">Available for everyone</span></font></b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><br>
<strong><b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal">“For science and scholarship, Open Access publishing is an
imperative business model,” says Jos Engelen, chairman of the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></b></strong>“You’re
wasting your time if you try to stop it.” Prof. Henk Schmidt, <i><span style="font-style:italic">rector magnificus</span></i> of Erasmus University
Rotterdam (EUR), agrees, saying that Open Access publishing is of major
importance for science and scholarship. At the opening of the 2010–2011
academic year, Prof. Schmidt </span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.openaccess.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=185" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">announced </span></font></a></span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> that
from 2011 all publications by EUR and the Erasmus Medical Centre will be
uploaded to the online Repub database, making them available to everyone.</span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold">Open Access means
material can be traced.</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">A study by Amsterdam University Press has shown that
books that are published by means of Open Access are far easier to trace than
those that are not.<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span></b>The </span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2010/00000023/00000004/art00003" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">study of the effects of OA and the
distribution channel</span></font></a></span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">, which looked at four
hundred book titles, showed that authors benefit directly from their
publications because they distribute their ideas among the maximum number of
readers, helping to build their reputation. University presses also benefit
from OA as an efficient way of distributing scientific and scholarly knowledge.
</span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold">Open Access
promoted from all sides</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Amsterdam University Press and SURF are
collaborating on the new <font color="black"><span style="color:black">OAPEN-NL
project (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). This involves
researchers gaining experience of Open Access book publication and collecting
data on the effect of </span></font>Open Access <font color="black"><span style="color:black">availability. </span></font>The NWO is also collaborating
by making a financial contribution.</span></font><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold">Videos</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">SURF has published a
number of short video films about OA publishing, for example one by </span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/StichtingSURF#p/a/u/1/YOrZs_Pc_j8" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">dr. Arianna Betti</span></a></span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam. She explains how she uses Open Access publications in her daily work
and how Open Access can speed up research and increase collaboration between
scholars. More video's will be available during the Open Access week.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><em><i><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">This press
release is availale on the <a href="http://www.openaccess.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190:researchers-learn-about-publishing-in-open-access-journals-in-open-access-week&catid=1:news-archive" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:normal">Dutch Open Access website</span></a>.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><em><i><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">The Dutch
version of this press release can be found on the </span></font></i></em><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/actueel/Pages/OnderzoekerslerenpublicereninOpenAccessjournals.aspx" target="_blank"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana;text-decoration:none">website
of SURFfoundation</span></font></i></em></a></span></font><em><i><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">.</span></font></i></em><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Kind regards,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Annemiek van der Kuil<br>
Community manager SURFshare<br>
Platform ICT and Research</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">SURFfoundation, Graadt van Roggenweg 340, P.O.Box 2290, 3500
GG Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>
T +31 30 234 66 42, F +31 30 233 29 60, W <a href="http://www.surffoundation.nl/surfshare" target="_blank">www.surffoundation.nl/surfshare</a>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></font></p>
</div>
</div>
</div><br>