<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Dear all,</span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please join us for our first webinar in our new Open Science Webinar Series: <i><b>The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access.</b></i></span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><i><b><br></b></i></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday 25th October 2018</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-1474228813072107871gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Time:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 1.30pm BST (other timezones: 5.30am PDT, 7.30am CDT, 8.30am EDT, 9.30am BRT, 1.30pm CET, 1.30pm WAT, 2.30pm SAST, 6.00pm IST, 11.30pm AEDT).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-1474228813072107871gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This webinar is free and open to the public. Link to registration page: <a href="http://www.cvent.com/d/cbqwbc" target="_blank">http://www.cvent.com/d/cbqwbc</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-1474228813072107871gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-m_-1474228813072107871gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the economic implications of publishing research open access? What do economically efficient models for open access look like at the moment, how do they differ between different kinds of publishers, and what might they look like in the future? Is there a sufficiently robust funding stream to finance open access? How variable is this across the world and across the various disciplines? How do we build sustainable models? What can we learn from other digital sectors?</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this webinar chaired by Dr Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director at the Royal Society, different perspectives on the economics and sustainability of open access publishing will be presented and discussed by panelists Dr Rupert Gatti, Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Cofounder of Open Book Publishers; Liz Ferguson, Vice President of Editorial Development at Wiley; and Claudio Aspesi, an independent consultant in the media and publishing industry.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:base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