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audience than 
SIGMetrics
Apologies for multiple posting
Michel

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Sujet: 	Re: [SIGMETRICS] EurOpenScholarship: Press Release
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Date: 	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:09:18 +0100
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More on EurOpenScholarship from the Rector of the University
of Liege
(Excerpt translated from: http://recteur.
blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151 )

    "EurOpenScholar will be a showcase and a tool for
the promotion
    of OA in Europe. It will be a consortium of European
universities
    resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince
the largest
    possible number of researchers, their institutions and
their European
    Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly
be the mode
    of communication of tomorrow. The transitional period
will be the
    most difficult. Our goal is to facilitate and thereby
accelerate as
    much as possible the transition to the OA era.

    "The EurOpenScholar web site, hosted by the ULg, 
will provide an
    information-gathering service concerning OA
institutional repositories
    and OA journals, with a discussion forum on OA and  the
methods
    emerging in the field of scientometrics (research
performance and
    impact measurement, ranking and anlysis).

    "EurOpenScholar's primary objective will be to open
researchers'
    eyes to the new ways of promoting the spread of
knowledge and of
    assessing research progress and performance in the OA
era. This
    will contribute to the advancement of research in Europe
and to the
    promotion of European research and European
researchers.

    "In addition, EurOpenScholar will address itself to
research managers,
    funding agencies, national and local research
policy-makers, the R&D
    industry, the media, and the general public,
facilitating synergies
    and technology transfer and providing an effective
channel for the
    communication of  real science to the public, either
directly or
    through the media."  [Bernard Rentier, Rector, U.
Liege]

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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College bond, U.K.
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information
Management
Adviser of SomosTelecentros board http://www.tele-centros.o
rg
Member of the founding steering committee of 
Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.
net/
B.P. 15
F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France
Email: micheljmenou[at]gmail[dot]com
michel[dot]menou[at]orange[dot]fr
Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043
http://www
.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php
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2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory
firm) 
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.asis
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