BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Midway X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Midway BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-1100 TZOFFSETTO:-1100 TZNAME:SST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5385115:Event:92190 DTSTAMP:20260406T211401Z SUMMARY:Open Access Week 2013 Kick Off Event at the World Bank: Redefi ning Impact DESCRIPTION:\nWashington, DC – SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and A cademic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank are pleased to announc e the following speakers for the Open Access Week 2013 kickoff event o n Monday, October 21st starting at 3:00pm EDT in Washington, DC:\n\nDr . Stefano Bertuzzi, Executive Director of the American Society for Cel l Biology (ASCB)\nBrett Bobley, Chief Information Officer for the Nati onal Endowment for the Humanities \nDr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Directo r of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association\nDr. C ameron Neylon, Advocacy Director for Public Library of Science\nDr. Mi chael Stebbins, Assistant Director for Biotechnology in the Science Di vision of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy \n\nT he kickoff event will take place at the World Bank. A LiveBlog and web cast of the panel discussion and ceremony will be available for those who cannot attend in person. The event will be recorded and be availab le to the community for use during and after local Open Access events. No registration is necessary for the webcast. Participants are encour aged to post their questions for the panel in advance and during the e vent at, and to stream the webcast to kick off their own Open Access W eek events.\n \nThe event will begin with a 60-minute panel discussio n, entitled, “Open Access: Redefining Impact,” hosted by Heather J oseph, Executive Director of SPARC. Among the topics to be discussed a re Article Level Metrics (ALM’s) and changing the way scholarly comm unication is measured. \n \nFollowing the panel discussion, winning nominations of the new Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) will be announced. Elizabeth Marincola, Chief Executive Officer of PLOS,  Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services, Wellcome Library at the Wellc ome Trust, and Alex Kozak Policy Analyst, Public Policy and Governme nt Relations at Google will each announce a winning ASAP nomination. The ASAP Program, sponsored by 27 global organizations including Googl e, PLOS, and the Wellcome Trust, recognizes those who have built upon Open Access scientific research for new innovations shaping our societ y. For more information on the ASAP Program, visit asap.plos.org. \n \nFollowing the panel discussion and awards presentation, SPARC will sponsor a reception that will begin at 4:30pm.\n \nTo attend in perso n to the event in Washington, D.C., please register by October 15th. P lease note each person in attendance will need a photo ID. Please also allow for time to go through security.\n\nThe World Bank was recently named as SPARC Innovator for its implementation of a new open access policy, which included the launch of the World Bank Open Knowledge Re pository (OKR) in 2012. The World Bank opened its data to the public i n 2010.\nFor information about Open Access week events and information please go to http://www.openaccessweek.org/.\nFor additional details, please contact:\nAndrea Higginbotham\nandrea [at] arl [dot] org\n(202 ) 296-2296 x 121\nor\nDevika Levy\nDlevy [at] worldbank [dot] org\n\nF or more information visit http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/open -access-week-2013-kick-off-event-at-the-world-bank DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131021T150000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131021T190000 CATEGORIES:in, person, online, webcast, webinar LOCATION:World Bank in Washington DC and Online WEBSITE:http://live.worldbank.org/open-access-week-2013 URL:http://live.worldbank.org/open-access-week-2013 CONTACT: ORGANIZER:SPARC and the World Bank ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3057495280?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ken Saka moto":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/KenSakamoto ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Nick Sho ckey":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/AndreaHigginbotham ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dee Magn oni":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/DiannaMagnoni ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather Martin":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/HeatherMartin ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Melissa Cardenas-Dow":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/MelissaCardenas Dow ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Nancy St imson":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/NancyStimson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Hayoung Shin":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/HayoungShin ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather McCullough":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/HeatherMcCullough ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Rienne Johnson":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/RienneJohnson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jasper Lee Maenzanise":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/JLeeMaenzanis e ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Vincenz o D'Aguanno":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/VincenzoDAguanno END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR