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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">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
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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></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><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></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><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></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><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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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></SPAN></P>
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