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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>The European
FP7-funded MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network) project aims at
coordinating Open Access policies, strategies and structures in six
Mediterranean countries: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
The project consortium is formed by six organisations representing the
countries, and three additional partners from <st1:place w:st="on">Northern
Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT
size=2><FONT face=Arial>MedOANet is currently conducting, until June 15, online
surveys addressed to research performing institutions, research funders and
scholarly publishers in these countries. Results of the surveys (together with
information from various other sources) will be mapped into a ‘Mediterranean
Open Access Tracker’, a major tool of the project, expected to be released in
September and to develop eventually into a virtual self-sustained observatory
for Open Access in Southern Europe and
beyond.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT
size=2><FONT face=Arial>We have sent out invitations and targeted potential
participants in the surveys in different ways. Although we tried to do this
comprehensively, we may have missed some
institutions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT
face=Arial>If research organisations, funders or publishers from one of the six
countries think that they should respond, and haven’t done so yet, they are
kindly invited to take a few minutes for completing the survey, which is
available here:</FONT> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><A
href="http://www.medoanet.eu/news/take-part-medoanet-surveys"><FONT
color=#800080>http://www.medoanet.eu/news/take-part-medoanet-surveys</FONT></A>.</SPAN><SPAN
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size=2><FONT face=Arial>MedOANet will of course keep the communities informed
about the results, and more generally about events, developments and final
outcomes of the project, which will run until the end of
2013.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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