Students call for institutional green OA mandates (fwd)

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:30:28 +0100

Below, forwarded by Gavin Baker at SPARC, is the announcement of a very
welcome and useful student statement in support of institutional OA
mandates.

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Gavin Baker gavin -- arl.org

    Prof. Harnad,

    I wanted to call your attention to the just-released Student Statement
    on The Right to Research, endorsed by several national student
    organizations and supported by SPARC, which calls for universities
    to adopt open access policies:

    http://www.righttoresearch.org/

    This adds students' voices to those of faculty and librarians in
    support of institutional OA mandates.

    I appreciate any help you can give in spreading the word.

    Thanks,

    Gavin Baker
    Outreach Fellow
    Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
    http://www.arl.org/sparc/
    tel: +1 (407) 929-5657
    gavin -- arl.org
    ---------------------------------------------------------

I would also draw students' attention to the article "The University's
Mandate to Mandate Open Access," which I wrote at Gavin's invitation in
Open Students:
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/02/08/open-students-oa-for-the-next-generat
ion/

  -- SH
Received on Sun Jun 14 2009 - 15:33:49 BST

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