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          <td>Dalla lista IFLA.<br>
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            Un caro saluto a tutti,<br>
            Mauro Guerrini<br>
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    <div style="text-align: right;">Bordeaux October 11th 2011<br
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      <h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
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                face="Cambria">IFLAs Open Access
                Taskforce established</font></font></font></span></h2>
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            face="Calibri" size="3">Following
            the endorsement of IFLAs statement on open access (</font></span><a
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href="http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/news/documents/ifla-statement-on-open-access.pdf"><span
            style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font
              color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/news/documents/ifla-statement-on-open-access.pdf</font></span></a><span
          style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font
            face="Calibri"><font size="3">) by the Governing Board,
              April 18</font><font size="2"><sup>th</sup></font><font
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              2011 and the subsequent approval from the Governing Board
              during the WLIC in
              Puerto Rica August 2011 of a number of key initiatives
              IFLAs Open Access
              Taskforce has been established.</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">The
              taskforce will work on the following issues:</font></font></span></p>
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          style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font
              face="Calibri">Advocate
              for the adoption and promotion of open access policies as
              set out in IFLA's
              Statement on Open Access within the framework of the
              United Nations
              institutions (UN, UNESCO, WHO, FAO),</font></font></span></p>
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          style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font
            face="Calibri"><font size="3">Build
              Capacity within the IFLA Membership to advocate for the
              adoption of open access
              policies at the national level, through the development of
              case studies and
              best practices for open access promotion; </font></font></span></p>
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          style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font
              face="Calibri">Furthermore
              the taskforce will connect to the various organizations
              working for Open Access
              – as indicated in the statement -such as SPARC
              (US/Europe/Japan), COAR,
              OASPA,EIFL, Bioline International & DOAJ, among
              others.</font></font></span></p>
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          style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font
              face="Calibri">First
              things to be done is to produce a road map for the work to
              presented for the
              IFLA Governing Board in December and as well to begin
              collecting case studies
              and best practice related to how national library
              associations can promote
              national policies and programs to further foster the
              progress of Open Access.
              Please inform me if you have good examples in relation to
              this.</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">In
              cooperation with the IFLA Head Quarters dedicated web
              pages will be created in
              order for the community to be able to follow and
              contribute to the work.</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">The
              taskforce has the following members:</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Leslie Chan,
              Associate Director, Bioline International, University of
              Toronto at Scarborough</font></font></span></p>
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            face="Calibri"><font size="3">Jan
              Hagerlid, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Programme
              Co-ordinator of
              OpenAccess.se, National Library of Sweden</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Iryna
              Kuchma , EIFL.Net Open Access Manager, EIFL, Rome, Italy,
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              face="Calibri">Rick Luce, Vice
              Provost and Director of Libraries, Emory University, USA,
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              face="Calibri">Felipe
              Martinez, Director, University Center for Library Science
              Research, National
              Autonomous University of Mexico, </font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Bas
              Savenijie, Director, National Library of the Netherlands</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Xuemao Wang,
              Associate Vice-Provost, Emory Unviersity Libraries, Emory
              University, USA</font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Qiang Zhu, Director,
              Peking University Library, Beijing, China </font></font></span></p>
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            face="Calibri"><font size="3">Ann Okerson,
              <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Special Advisor
              on Electronic Strategies,
              Center for Research Libraries </font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">New Haven,
              CT, United States </font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Derek Law,
              Professor, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United
              Kingdom </font></font></span></p>
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                yes;"> </span>Chair: </font></font></span></p>
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              face="Calibri">Lars
              Bjørnshauge, 1st Vice-President, Swedish Library
              Association, </font></font></span></p>
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              Bjørnshauge</font></font></span></p>
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    <div>Lars Bjørnshauge</div>
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    <div>Independent Libraries & Scholarly Communications
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