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The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like toannounce the release of an online survey to assess researchers'experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform themost comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing todate and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. Itis primarily aimed at active researchers in public and privateorganizations, from all research fields in science and the humanitiesand focuses on publication of research articles in (open access)peer-reviewed journals.If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on openaccess, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d.It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if youwould share this link with your colleagues and collaborators so that theviews of your discipline are properly represented.The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights aswell as recommendations will be openly shared with the EuropeanCommission, publishers, research funding agencies, libraries andresearchers.Thanks in advance, the SOAP Project Team info@project-soapSPAMNOT.eu(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the EuropeanOrganization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders inopen access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer;funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) andlibraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society).The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.http://project-soap.eu 