<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; ">Hello All!<br><br>We're on our way to surpassing 20,000 signatures on the White House Open Access petition - in just one week! - and we need your help to close this out successfully.<br><br>To help drive this effort home, please consider sending out one more email blast to your contact lists. This is a truly effective way of not only getting the word out, but also of showing your support. Consider a "+1" email request - encouraging those on your network who have already signed to recruit a friend or colleague to sign, to be their "+1." It's a great way to include new voices into the mix!<br><br>Our social media efforts have been phenomenally effective - Twitter is aglow with references to <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23openaccess">#openaccess</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OAMonday">#OAMonday</a> so please use these hashtags if you tweet. Facebook is also a great way of getting the petition link out to all of your friends - you can add a link directly to the petition in your Facebook posting to make it easy for folks to sign.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>Here are a few links to include in your email blasts, and to spread far and wide in your social media endeavors: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>The Petition: </b><br><a href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ">https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ</a></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Short URL to Petition for Tweets:</b> <a href="http://wh.gov/6TH">wh.gov/6TH</a><br><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Banner Ads to use on your Websites/Blogs:</b> <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/white-house-open-access-petition-support-banners-f.shtml">http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/white-house-open-access-petition-support-banners-f.shtml</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; ">Thank you so much for your continual help with this campaign! And please let me know if you have any questions!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; ">Best,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; ">Andrea</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" style="font-size: 13px; ">-- <br>Andrea Brusca Higginbotham<br>Communications Manager, SPARC<br>21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800<br>Washington, DC 20036<br>(202) 296-2296 ext 121<br><a href="mailto:andrea@arl.org">andrea@arl.org</a><br><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc">www.arl.org/sparc</a><br><br>Open Access Week 2012<br>October 22-28<br><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a><br><br>NEW! SPARC Daily: <a href="http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809">http://paper.li/SPARC_NA/1334596809</a></font></div></body></html>