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May 23, 2012
White House Petition on Open Access to Research Speeding Along- 12,500 Signatures in 2 ½ Days
A community-driven petition calling for the Obama Administration to open up the results of taxpayer-funded scientific research by making journal articles freely available online has opened remarkably strong. The petition, which calls for Public Access to all Federally Funded Research, was posted to the White House "We the People" website just two and half days ago, with the aim of securing 25,000 signatures within 30 days.

May 23, 2012
A Petition for Free Online Access of Taxpayer-funded Research

Samuel Arbesman, Wired, May 22, 2012

Many scientific papers are locked away behind paywalls. But the federal government pays for nearly all of this research! So not only should we have access to it in order to allow science to build upon itself, but as a citizenry we have paid for this research and should be able to access it.

May 22, 2012
SPARC Video: Sign White House Petition

May 22, 2012
US Petition Could Tip the Scales in Favour of Open Access Publishing

Mike Taylor, The Guardian, May 22, 2012

A petition urges President Obama to implement open access for all federally funded research. This is our chance to demonstrate public support and goad the White House into action

May 22, 2012
ACRL Urges Librarians to Sign Research Access Petition
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has urged librarians and other interested parties to sign a petition calling for public access to all federally funded research, which was posted on the White House’s “We the People” website on May 21. If the petition gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days, it will be considered for action by the White House staff.

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SPARC Innovator, January 2012:
Michael Nielsen

Upcoming Events

May 15, 2012
12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Registration
Don't forget to register and book your hotel room for the 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). JCDL 2012, this year's premiere international conference on all things related to digital libraries, is only a month away. The program is loaded with a rich corpus of papers, posters, and demonstrations, and the conference is open to all. More information is available from the conference website, including links to the registration form, hotel reservations pages, travel tips, and a full schedule of events.

May 14, 2012
What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast

The panel, moderated by World Bank Publisher Carlos Rossel, will answer these questions and address the challenges, successes, pitfalls and benefits other institutions experienced when they made similar game-changing decisions.

Featuring:

Peter Suber - Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and a leading voice in the open access movement

Michael Carroll - American University law professor and founding board member of Creative Commons

Cyril Muller - Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank

Adam Wagstaff - Research Manager of the World Bank's Development Research Group.

May 9, 2012
Save the date: June 23, SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA in Anaheim
The next SPARC-ACRL Forum, "Campus Open Access Funds: The State of Play" will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, on Saturday, June 23rd, from 4:00-5:30pm in the Grand Ballroom South at the Disneyland Hotel. Co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries), the popular semi-annual forum focuses on emerging issues in scholarly communication.

March 21, 2012
Webcast Invitation: Article level metrics with Peter Binfield April 12, 2012

On April 12, please join us as we host Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS One, for an

in-depth look at the the current status of Article Level Metrics, a discussion of what

has been learned to date, and a glimpse into what is on the horizon for their further

development and wider adoption.

March 20, 2012
2012 UNT Symposium on Open Access
Symposium on Open Access and Research Data Management will take place on May 21, 2012 and will feature Myron Gutmann of NSF as keynote