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<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The global<b> OA2020 and ESAC Initiatives
</b>are delighted to announce the launch of a <b>Community of Practice</b> call series in
<i>European, African, Asian and Australian time zones</i>. These calls will be an opportunity for mutual exchange among library and consortium practitioners on their approaches and experiences negotiating and implementing transformative open access agreements
to accelerate the transition of scholarly journals to open access. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The first call will address some of the key aspects of transformative agreements, and the ensuing discussion and participant feedback will contribute to planning of future calls. Aiming to
explore the<b> unique challenges and opportunities of smaller national consortia</b>, the guest speaker of our first call will be
<b>Jack Hyland, manager of the IReL consortium in Ireland</b>, which has aligned senior management around negotiation principles that have led to the successful negotiation of transformative open access agreements with publishers large (Elsevier) and small
(Company of Biologists). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;background:white">All staff and faculty from libraries and library consortia are welcome</span><span lang="EN-GB"> to
<b>join us in the inaugural OA2020-ESAC Community of Practice call on Thursday 30 July at 11am CET</b>.
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Register<span style="color:#ED7D31">
</span><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/154381736282125840"><span style="color:#ED7D31">here</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Note: the series complements a similar series organized by the
<a href="https://oa2020.us/"><span style="color:#ED7D31">US OA2020 Working Group</span></a> in
<i>time zones of the Americas</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Colleen Campbell</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Open Access 2020 Initiative</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ESAC Initiative</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Max Planck Digital Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+49 160 9725 1536</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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