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OA community called upon to lobby for a Google Doodle for OA Week 2010

To draw world-wide attention to this year's Open Access Week (18 - 24 October 2010), the OA community is being called upon to lobby Google to dedicate a Google Doodle to Open Access that week. As Google gets lots of requests of this kind, it would be great if as many people as possible could send an e-mail with the following text to proposals(at)google.com:

The week of October 18th 2010 is international Open Access Week, with events and activities taking place world-wide on university and research campuses. We believe that Open Access - researchers making their research articles available for free to all -  is an exciting and important shift in the availability of research for scholars and the public. We would like to support the idea of a Google Doodle on Open Access for this week.