<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font size="2">[Forwarding from the U of Nottingham's Centre for Research Communications. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The United Kingdom Council for Research Repositories and the Repositories Support Project invite repository staff in the UK to participate in a nationwide initiative to gauge researchers’ attitudes to open access generally, funding for open access publishing and the institutional repository specifically. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">We are asking you to carry out a standardised survey between April and June 2011. This is based on a survey carried out at the University of Huddersfield during Open Access week 2010 which revealed some interesting results. There are benefits for participating institutions such as raising the profile of the repository and also nationally in creating a body of evidence about researchers’ attitudes.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">All the information about participating in the survey is available in a download from the RSP blog: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://rspproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/unlocking-attitudes-to-open-access-in-the-uk/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://rspproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/unlocking-attitudes-to-open-access-in-the-uk/</font></a></p>
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