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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">January 30, 2014</font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Read it online: </font><a href="http://bit.ly/1fc8bPy" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1fc8bPy</a></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2014 Proposal Deadline Extended</b></font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em style="line-height:20px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A message from the Open Repositories 2014 Conference organizers</font></em><br>
</font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><font color="#000000"><em>Helsinki, Finland</em> The final deadline for submitting proposals for the Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories (#or2014) has been extended until Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The conference is scheduled to take place June 9-13 in Helsinki and is being hosted by University of Helsinki‘s twin libraries: Helsinki University Library and the National Library of Finland.</font></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><font color="#000000">The theme this year is "Towards Repository Ecosystems" emphasizing the interconnected nature of repositories, institutions, technologies, data and the people who make it all work together. You may review the call for proposals here: <a href="http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281" target="_blank">http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281</a>.</font></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><font color="#000000">This year the Open Repositories team will be operating a pilot programme to offer a small number of 'registration fee only' scholarships for this conference. Details will be announced on the conference website when registration opens.</font></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><strong><font color="#000000">Submit your proposal here: <a href="https://www.conftool.com/or2014/" target="_blank">https://www.conftool.com/or2014/</a> by Feb. 10, 2014.</font></strong></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><span style="line-height:1.4285715"><font color="#000000">We look forward to seeing you at OR2014!</font></span></p></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br>
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