<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>* REQUEST *</div><div><br></div><div>Do you know any initiatives offering free online access to research or data as humanitarian assistance to Japan? If so, please post details to the SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF). The initiatives may be gold, green, gratis, libre, partial, temporary, or any variation on the theme. </div>
<div>--SOAF message archive</div><div><a href="https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html">https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html</a></div><div>--SOAF subscription info</div><div><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan#forum">http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan#forum</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Or send the details to me and I'll forward them to SOAF. To save time, I'll assume I have permission to forward messages on this topic unless the senders tell me otherwise.</div></div><div>
<br></div><div>The important thing is to collect this info in a public place where people can easily find it, and to do so without delay. I'll reprint the most relevant items in the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, but we shouldn't wait until April to boost the visibility of these useful projects.</div>
<div><div><br></div></div><div><div>I already know about the Emergency Access Initiative from the US National Library of Medicine, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.</div>
<div><div><a href="http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/2011/03/15/eai-japa/">http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/2011/03/15/eai-japa/</a></div><div><a href="http://eai.nlm.nih.gov/docs/captcha/test.pl">http://eai.nlm.nih.gov/docs/captcha/test.pl</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><div>I already know about the section on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in ReliefWeb, the UN's OA database for humanitarian relief.</div><div><a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=EQ-2011-000028-JPN&rc=3">http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=EQ-2011-000028-JPN&rc=3</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I already know about the *lack* of OA to data on radiation leaking from the Japanese nuclear reactors collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. </div><div><div><a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/exclusive_governments_withhold.html">http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/exclusive_governments_withhold.html</a></div>
</div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> Thanks,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> Peter</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter Suber</div><div><div>Berkman Fellow, Harvard University</div><div>Senior Researcher, SPARC</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters">www.earlham.edu/~peters</a></div><div><a href="mailto:peter.suber@gmail.com">peter.suber@gmail.com</a></div>
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