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/Gerry

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Advocacy/Policy Strategy. The top priority for SPARC will be to raise the public policy profile of Open Access to the results of research - including journal articles, data and educational resources. 

• Leading efforts to advocate for policies that provide for Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources on the institutional, state, national and international levels
• Supporting research on social/economic benefits of Open Access to research outputs
• Leading and expanding U.S. National Working Group on Open Access
• Working with media outlets to promote public awareness of Open Access
• Working with public and private research funders to create and implement Open Access policies
• Expanding wholesale communications and outreach efforts to maximize reach of campaigns
• Actively participating in coalitions working on our target "Open" issue areas
• Participate in and promote productive collective efforts to build scalable capacity to support effective implementations of Open Access policies (i.e., SHARE, OpenAire, etc.)
• Hosting Biennial North American Meeting on Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources

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http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/sparc-current-program-plan-2014-open.html