<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thought you may be interested in Tuesday's webcast!</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Best,</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Andrea</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Andrea Brusca Higginbotham<br>Communications Manager, SPARC<br>21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800<br>
Washington, DC 20036</font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="tel:%28202%29%20296-2296%20ext%20121" value="+12022962296" target="_blank">(202) 296-2296 ext 121</a><br>
<a href="mailto:heather@arl.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">andrea@arl.org</a><br><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">www.arl.org/sparc</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Open Access Week 2014</b></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">October 20-26</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NEW! SPARC Daily: <a href="http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809" target="_blank">http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809</a></font></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Webcast Invitation: Open Access Developments in Latin America</b><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another free SPARC online event
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
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12:00 - 1:00PM EDT </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Registration is free, but required. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Please RSVP by December 6th at: <a href="http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=125" target="_blank">http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=125</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
This webcast requires both a phone dial-in and an Internet connection. <br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Open Access Week events showcased the many ways people across the globe informed staff, faculty, and students to the benefits of Open Access. While there have been many advancements made here in the U.S. and the U.K., developing countries have utilized new publishing models to capitalize on opening up research results and data. Latin America, in particular has seen unprecedented surge in advocacy for public access – Argentina now has legislation that requires all publicly funded research be available in open access interoperable institutional repositories. </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Using an Open Access peer-review model for their repository, the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) has gained a positive reputation across the globe –now has on average over one million articles downloaded from the their site each day and their journals currently boast almost 10 million citations.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Our guest speaker, <span class="">Nicholas</span> <span class="">Cop</span>, is the Founder and President of <span class="">Nicholas</span> <span class="">Cop</span> Consulting, LLC and consultant on the SciELO program. SciELO began in 1998 as an e-journal initiative funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation. SciELO publishes over 1000 journal titles mainly from Latin America and Caribbean but also including Portugal, Spain and South Africa. </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="">Nicholas</span> will provide background and updates on Open Access in Latin America and the many developments SciELO is undertaking.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards. </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion. SPARC’s Communications Manager, Andrea Higginbotham, will be moderating questions during the webcast. </div>
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