Friends: Have you planned how you are going to celebrate the Open Access Week this year, 22-28 October 2012? You can make a good beginning now by signing the White House Open Access Petition and forwarding the petition to all your friends with a request to sign it. In terms of research papers published, journals subscribed, articles downloaded, etc India is among the top dozen countries of the world. We have a stake in keeping scholarly communication space as open as possible.  Incidentally, anyone anywhere in the world can sign the White House Open Access Petition. It is not restricted to US citizens/ scientists/ researchers/ librarians. Any citizen above a certain age can sign.  Best wishes. Arun From: Andrea Higginbotham <andrea@arl.org> Hello All! We're on our way to surpassing 20,000 signatures on the White House Open Access petition  - in just one week!  - and we need your help to close this out successfully. To help drive this effort  home, please consider sending out one more email blast to your contact lists. This is a truly effective way of not only getting the word out, but also of showing your support.  Consider a "+1" email request  - encouraging those on your network who have already signed to recruit a friend or colleague to sign, to be their "+1." It's a great way to include new voices into the mix! Our social media efforts have been phenomenally effective - Twitter is aglow with references to #openaccess and #OAMonday so please use these hashtags if you tweet. Facebook is also a great way of getting the petition link out to all of your friends - you can add a link directly to the petition in your Facebook posting to make it easy for folks to sign. Here are a few links to include in your email blasts, and to spread far and wide in your social media endeavors:  The Petition:  https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-in... Short URL to Petition for Tweets: wh.gov/6TH Banner Ads to use on your Websites/Blogs: http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/white-house-open-access-petition-support-bann... Thank you so much for your continual help with this campaign! And please let me know if you have any questions! Best, Andrea --  Andrea Brusca Higginbotham Communications Manager, SPARC 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-2296 ext 121 andrea@arl.org www.arl.org/sparc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.