A release by SPARC notes that a coalition of organizations have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Educators, researchers, students, librarians and the general public are invited to participate in the live worldwide broadcasts of events.
In North America, events will be held at 7:00 PM (Eastern) and 7:00 PM (Pacific) and feature appearances from:
Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 for discovering split genes and RNA splicing, one of 26 Nobel Prize-winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research, and currently at New England Biolabs, USA. [7PM Eastern]
Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.
Philip E. Bourne is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules Series. He is Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee. [7PM Pacific]
Click here to discover more about Open Access Day.
META I. embraces and promotes transparency and free online access to scholarly resources. In support, additional links about this topic can be found under the Open Access Links heading on this page.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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