<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are celebrating Open Access Week at Cambridge University with a series of activities, announcements and blog posts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today we have published the second in our series of ‘In conversation with…’ posts reflecting our meetings with funding bodies to answer researchers' questions about data sharing. ‘I<b class="">n conversation with Michael Ball from the BBSRC</b>’ - answers many of the big questions about biological data sharing <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=337" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=337</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have also published the first blog of a series written by members of the Office of Scholarly Communication. Today’s blog is ‘<b class="">A day in the life of an Open Access Research Adviser</b>’ by Dr Philip Boyes. If you ever wondered what is involved in the work we do, read on - <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=340" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=340</a></div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="widows: 1;" class="">Our big event will be 6pm - 7.30pm Friday evening with a co-branded Open Access Week and Cambridge Festival of Ideas event. <a href="http://osc.cam.ac.uk/panel-discussion-can-society-afford-open-access" class="">http://osc.cam.ac.uk/panel-discussion-can-society-afford-open-access</a></div><div style="widows: 1;" class="">You are welcome to j<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#171717" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class="">oin us for an entertaining evening where scholars, publishers, administrators and others discuss the question '<b class="">Can society afford open access?</b>’ in the </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Main Lecture Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College, All Saints Passage CB2 1TP</span></div><div class="field-label-hidden field-name-body field field-type-text-with-summary" style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">Open access disseminates research to the community, circumventing expensive publisher subscriptions. But there is a high cost associated with open access and it is not without risk.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">The panel consists of:</p><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 9px 15px; list-style: square;" class=""><li class="">Professor Stephen Curry, Structural Biology at Imperial College (Chair/Moderator)</li><li class="">Dr Daniel Allington, Digital Cultures, University of the West of England</li><li class="">Professor Peter Mandler, President of the Royal Historical Society</li><li class="">Dr Theodora Bloom, Executive Editor, BMJ</li><li class="">Dr Danny Kingsley, Head of Scholarly Communications, Cambridge University</li></ul></div></div></div><div class=""></div><div class="">Danny</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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