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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:36:07 -0500
From: "Fred Benenson"
To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv"
Subject: [free-culture] REMINDER: PLoS Comes to NYU Wednesday at 6:30pm
Reply-To: "Fred Benenson"
Free Culture @ NYU,
We're not meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) but we are having an event on
Wednesday.. Please join us! We'll be giving out free t-shirts and
schwag from PLoS.
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Gavin Yamey from the Public Library of Science will be joining on
Wednesday the 15th at 6:30pm to give a presentation. We've
co-sponsored the evening with the Information Law Institute Student
Association, who will be providing us a luxurious room at the law
school.
Here is Gavin's bio:
Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Gavin Yamey is a product of three continents - he was born in Cape
Town, raised in London, and now lives in San Francisco. He studied
medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London,
graduating in 1994. After five years of working as a physician in a
variety of settings - including an AIDS hospice, a dialysis ward, and
a brain injuries unit - he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ)in
1999 as a trainee in medical journalism and editing. In 2001, he moved
to San Francisco to be the deputy editor of the Western Journal of
Medicine, published by the BMJ and the University of California. Gavin
has written extensively on global health, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, and
has helped to train medical editors at workshops in Barcelona and
Addis Ababa.He'll be coming to Free Culture @ NYU to give a
presentation about his work on open access, global health, and The
Public Library of Science. The Public Library of Science is an
open-access academic journal that publishes all of its work under
Creative Commons Attribution licenses. For more information visit :
http://www.plos.org
Here are the details:
Gavin Yamey of Public Library of Science
Wednesday, November 15th at 6:30pm
NYU Law School, Furman Hall 326, from 6:30pm-8
Free and Open to the Public (bring ID if non-NYU)
Best,
Fred Benenson
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