In News & Media 2007

December 21, 2007
Measure Would Require Free Access To Results of NIH-Funded Research
The Washington Post, December 21, 2007

December 18, 2007
Open access lives in NIH bill
The Scientist, December 18, 2007.

December 12, 2007
Youth Movement: Students Recognized as SPARC "Innovators"
Library Journal Academic Newswire, December 11, 2007

December 11, 2007
STUDENTS RECOGNIZED AS NEW SPARC INNOVATORS
SPARC highlights five students for leadership and activism on open access

December 7, 2007
SPARC, ACRL To Examine Student Perspectives at ALA Midwinter
Library Journal Academic Newswire, December 6, 2007

December 5, 2007
University Librarian Leads National Discussion of Access to Research

December 4, 2007
SPARC-ACRL Forum to focus on student engagement
The 16th SPARC-ACRL Forum, "Working with the Facebook Generation: Engaging Student Views on Access to Scholarship," will be held at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia on January 12.

November 6, 2007
SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations
- for the Third Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications

November 6, 2007
Student activism: How students use the scholarly communication system
C&RL News, November 2007 - by Gavin Baker

November 6, 2007
SPARC and ACRL release materials on the progress of open access journal publishing
SPARC and ACRL have released interviews and analysis exploring in depth the views of three major open access publishers on the challenges of sustainability. The materials were produced in conjunction with the 15th SPARC-ACRL Forum on Emerging Issues in Scholarly Communication, which took place on June 23, 2007.

November 5, 2007
Reminder: 2007 Call for Entries - SPARC Discovery Awards
The SPARC Discovery Awards is a contest that will recognize the best new short videos illustrating the importance of sharing information and ideas. Submissions must be received by December 2, 2007.

October 30, 2007
Bill Containing NIH Policy Ready for Conference; Implementation Looms
(Library Journal)

October 29, 2007
After Years of Effort, Mandatory NIH Public Access Policy Passes Congress
Library Journal Academic Newswire (October 25, 2007)

September 18, 2007
Greg Tananbaum joins SPARC Consulting Group
Coalition expands service to equip digital initiatives with tools for self-sufficiency and success

September 14, 2007
Scholarly Communication: Science Librarians as Advocates for Change
By Elizabeth Turtle and Martin Courtois (Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship)

September 12, 2007
ARL Challenges Publishers' PR Campaign Against Open Access Legislation
By Andrew Albanese (Library Journal).

September 11, 2007
Project of Publishers' Association Is Criticized by Some of Its Members and Open-Access Advocates
By Jennifer Howard (The Chronicle of Higher Education).

August 15, 2007
New Tool to Widen Access to Published Articles
by Tim Mark (LISNews)

August 15, 2007
CARL and SPARC offer Canadian authors new tool to widen access to published articles
Popular author copyright addendum adapted for use in Canada

August 13, 2007
University of Wisconsin - Madison launches Library Fund for Open Access Publishing
With the establishment of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP), UW-Madison librarians will begin publicizing the availability of funding support for open-access publishing as a part of their outreach and liaison activities.

August 3, 2007
ACRL/ARL/SPARC provide free access to archive of author rights web cast

July 27, 2007
Accessing NIH research
(Los Angeles Times)

July 25, 2007
2007 CALL FOR ENTRIES: SPARC Announces Mind Mashup - A Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Information Sharing
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and Documentary Filmmaker Peter Wintonick Among Judges Selecting $1,000 Prize Winner

July 24, 2007
Momentum for Open Access
(Inside Higher Ed)

July 24, 2007
Podcasts Now Online: SPARC-ACRL Forum on the progress of open access journal publishing

July 23, 2007
Congress Backs NIH Access Policy, But Publishers Resist
(Library Journal)

July 23, 2007
One Small Vote for House, One Giant Leap for Open Science
(Wired News, July 20, 2007)

July 20, 2007
SAVE THE DATE: The 2008 SPARC Institutional Repositories Meeting

July 10, 2007
Bill to Require NIH to Publish Research Online
By Daniel Pulliam (Tech Insider).

July 10, 2007
Battle to Resume as NIH Seeks to Require Deposit in PubMed Central
(Library Journal - Academic Newswire)

July 3, 2007
At ALA, SPARC Forum Details Economic Stability of Open Access
(LJ Academic Newswire) For roughly the past five years, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has devoted the bulk of its energies to open access (OA). So at this year's SPARC Forum, the organization offered a progress report on OA publishing efforts, specifically, the economic stability of open access...

July 3, 2007
NISO Issues Fast-Tracked SERU Draft - Document on Shared E-Resource Understanding in Trial Use Through December 20

June 28, 2007
At ALA, SPARC Forum Details Economic Stability of Open Access
(Library Journal Academic Newswire)

June 25, 2007
NISO Working Group Releases SERU 0.9 Draft for Pilot Use in E-Resource Transactions

June 21, 2007
SPARC Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Information Sharing
SPARC today announced the first SPARC Discovery Awards, a contest that will recognize the best new short videos illustrating the importance of sharing information and ideas.

June 5, 2007
SPARC Honors Father/Son Team with Innovator Award
(Library Journal Academic Newswire).

June 5, 2007
SPARC RECOGNIZES TED AND CARL BERGSTROM AS SPARC INNOVATORS
SPARC has recognized Ted Bergstrom and Carl Bergstrom as the new SPARC Innovators. The father-son team advances the open sharing of scholarly information through original research and the creation of innovative tools that are used widely by the academic community to assess the value of research.

May 17, 2007
SCIENCE COMMONS, SPARC ANNOUNCE NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) announce the release of new online tools to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories.

May 12, 2007
SIUC library to cancel some serials
by Ashley Wiehle (The Southern)

May 7, 2007
SPARC-ACRL FORUM TO EXPLORE PROGRESS OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL PUBLISHING MODELS
Popular ALA event will introduce leading open access publishing innovators and a conversation about successes and challenges to date

April 25, 2007
SHERPA Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2007
The SHERPA partnership is the recipient of the Second SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The decision to present the Award to SHERPA was made in recognition of their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access, including OpenDOAR, JULIET, and RoMEO.

April 19, 2007
ACRL/ARL/SPARC offering joint Webcast on author rights
This Webcast, to be held Thursday, May 17, will provide librarians with the basic information needed to educate faculty on campus before they transfer ownership of their intellectual output and help them understand the consequences and options.

March 9, 2007
SPARC-ACRL Forum on Public Access: Podcast NOW AVAILABLE
The drive for free public access to publicly funded research is in high gear in the U.S., Canada, and around the globe. For scientists and scholars, it promises not just to change the norms for how research is shared, but also to open new avenues for how it is conducted. The implications for academic and research libraries are no less profound, as the possibility of new and expanded roles in the research process emerge. The popular SPARC-ACRL Forum looks at what the changes mean for libraries.

March 9, 2007
Redesigned SPARC Web Site improves resource access for librarians, authors, and publishers

March 8, 2007
SPARC's Julia Blixrud Wins Serials Librarianship Award

March 5, 2007
SPARC Sponsors PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (July 2007)
The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as, but not restricted to, PKP's OJS, OCS, and OA Harvester) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale.

March 1, 2007
SPARC Supports New Initiative for Shared E-Resource Understanding

February 2, 2007
SPARC-ACRL Forum to explore Public Access

February 2, 2007
SPARC Recognizes Open Society Institute's Melissa Hagemann as Newest SPARC Innovator

February 2, 2007
Japanese Universities Launch SPARC Japan
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the launch of SPARC Japan, a collaboration of Japanese academic institutions and scholarly societies working to promote and make widely available the work of Japanese researchers. SPARC Japan (http://www.nii.ac.jp/sparc/) is an initiative of the Tokyo-based National Institute of Informatics (NII), a national research institute which unites Japanese academic librarians, scholars, researchers, universities and learned societies to support initiatives that improve scholarly communications in Japan.

January 26, 2007
Publishers' Group Reportedly Hires P.R. Firm to Counter Push for Free Access to Research Results
By Susan Brown (The Chronicle of Higher Education).

January 26, 2007
Publishing Group Hires 'Pit Bull of PR'
By Rick Weiss (The Washington Post).

January 25, 2007
PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access.
By Jim Giles (Nature).

January 18, 2007
SPARC at Ten: A Decade Later, Organization Still Aims to Be Part of The Solution
(Library Journal Academic Newswire). What a difference a decade makes. In 2007, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) celebrates its tenth anniversary, now with an expansive mission to work not only on behalf of libraries but for the welfare of the higher education community at large, and for individual researchers and the public...

 
In Advocacy 2007
 

December 26, 2007
PUBLIC ACCESS MANDATE MADE LAW
President Bush signs omnibus appropriations bill, including National Institutes of Health research access provision

October 24, 2007
Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law
Full U.S. Senate Approves Bill Containing Support for Access To Taxpayer-Funded Research

October 22, 2007
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Tell your Senator to OPPOSE amendments that strike or change the NIH public access provision in the FY08 Labor/HHS appropriations bill

October 4, 2007
Anti-Open-Access Effort by Publishing Group Loses Another University Press
The Chronicle of Higher Education

September 21, 2007
Information wants to be free
by Jim Giles for NewScientist

September 20, 2007
Library Groups to Senate

September 20, 2007
Now online: The importance of public access to publicly funded research for patient advocates
An ATA Web cast, recorded August 30, 2007.

September 12, 2007
Mandatory public access to federally funded research does not violate copyright obligations (PDF)
A joint brief from ARL, ALA, and SPARC, created July 2007.

September 11, 2007
University-Press Leader Quit Publishers' Panel Over Anti-Open-Access Campaign
(The Chronicle of Higher Education).

September 11, 2007
Call to action: Contact your Senator with support for public access to NIH-funded research
As the Senate considers Appropriations measures for the 2008 fiscal year this fall, please take a moment to remind your Senators of your strong support for public access to publicly funded research and - specifically - ensuring the success of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy by making deposit mandatory for researchers.

September 10, 2007
New research policy a victory for 'open access'
By Michael Geist (The Toronto Star).

September 7, 2007
CARL WELCOMES NEW POLICY THAT ENCOURAGES PUBLIC ACCESS TO CANADIAN RESEARCH
(pdf)

September 7, 2007
SPARC letter to members on the PRISM anti-open access effort

September 4, 2007
Open access to health research publications: CIHR unveils new policy
Today, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) unveiled a new policy to promote public access to the results of research it has funded...

September 4, 2007
The irony of a web without science
by James Boyle (Financial Times).

September 3, 2007
Scientific Council of the ERC: Relaunching the European Research Area (ERA)
(PDF).

August 29, 2007
PRISM coalition against open access spurs wide negative reaction
See the Open Access News blog for updates and links to comments from the blogosphere.

August 10, 2007
Public deserves access to NIH research work
(The Honolulu Advertiser)

July 23, 2007
One Small Vote for House, One Giant Leap for Open Science
(Wired News, July 20, 2007)

July 20, 2007
House Backs Taxpayer-Funded Research Access
In what advocates hailed as a major advance for scientific communication, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a measure directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

July 17, 2007
ALA Podcast with Heather Joseph, on access to NIH-funded research

July 17, 2007
Nobel Prize Winners renew support for public access to research

July 13, 2007
NIH Public Access Policy Update: Request for letters to all Representatives and Senators

July 13, 2007
Congressional Support Builds for Access to Publicly Funded Research
Mandatory NIH Policy Headed to Full House and Senate Votes

July 10, 2007
Battle to Resume as NIH Seeks to Require Deposit in PubMed Central
(Library Journal - Academic Newswire)

June 28, 2007
Congressional Panel Favors Access to Publicly Funded Research
Public access to NIH-funded research took a major step forward this week with Senate Appropriations Committee agreement to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require that its funded research be made publicly available on the Internet.

June 25, 2007
PubMed Central Hits One Million Article Mark
PubMed Central (PMC), NLM's free digital archive of full-text journal articles, reached the one million-article mark the week of June 18. The millionth article reportedly came from the American Journal of Pathology...

May 29, 2007
Canada: Science and Tech Strategy a Missed Opportunity
Michael Geist, Toronto Star, May 28, 2007.

May 3, 2007
Two U.S. Government reports call for public access to agency-funded research
Energy Department and Centers for Disease Control documents call for open public access to research.

May 2, 2007
Genetic Alliance Introduces New Web Resource for Accessing Information on Genetic Diseases
Genetic Alliance today announced a new website feature designed to help patients, care givers, health professionals, and others easily locate and navigate the vast array of information on genetic disorders that is available from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)...

April 9, 2007
CIHR "Access to Research Outputs Advisory Committee" releases minutes from January meeting

March 14, 2007
Sign & Promote New Public Access Petition
As U.S. lawmakers consider policies and legislation to advance public access, it is critical that supporters step forward and be counted. The petition, though open to supporters around the world, will demonstrate clearly to U.S. policymakers the depth and breadth of support for access to federally funded research in the United States. Sign now and spread the word.

February 21, 2007
Health Groups Urge Senators to Support On-line Access to Taxpayer Funded Medical Research [DOC]

February 7, 2007
PR Nightmare? Science Publishers' Consultation with PR "Pit Bull" Raises Questions
Library Journal - Academic Newswire (February 1, 2007)

February 6, 2007
Major society publisher announces support for public access to scientific literature

February 2, 2007
Students Rally for Access to Publicly Funded Research
Freeculture.org, the international student movement for free culture, in collaboration with the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), today announced that February 15, 2007 will be a "National Day of Action"...

February 2, 2007
SPARC, CARL Commend new policy for public access to outputs of Canadian research

February 2, 2007
Worldwide call for free and open access to European research results: Over 10,000 individuals sign petition to European Commission to guarantee public access to publicly funded research

 
In Partners 2007
 

December 12, 2007
Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Chooses Open Access over Subscription Publishing

December 12, 2007
NOW THERE ARE 3000 JOURNALS IN THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS!

November 27, 2007
BioMed Central Announces New Release of Open Repository: The Leading Platform for Hosting Institutional Repositories

November 26, 2007
BioMed Central YouTube channel debuts

November 20, 2007
The University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office Announces New Featured Series

November 20, 2007
A new open access journal, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology

November 20, 2007
New issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing

November 19, 2007
Opulus Press launches "First Online" section

October 31, 2007
Launch of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

October 18, 2007
BioMed Central Launches Biology Image Library
BioMed Central today announced the launch of Biology Image Library, an online resource that provides access to over 11,000 carefully selected biology-related images.

October 4, 2007
October issues of BioOne News
BioOne News is a quarterly electronic newsletter for BioOne publishers, librarians, partners and the entire extended BioOne community.

October 3, 2007
PhysMath Central Takes Off with a Big Bang

September 26, 2007
Open Society Institute awards grant to support Open Access Documentary Project
The Open Society Institute has awarded a grant to support the production and distribution of the Open Access Documentary Project, a collection of online videos celebrating the benefits of open access to scientific and medical research. Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are co-producers of the Project.

September 25, 2007
Sneak-Preview Articles from PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

September 25, 2007
SEP Reaches Significant Fund Raising Goal! NEH Matching Funds Secured

September 4, 2007
Microsoft Research Sponsors BioMed Central 2007 Research Awards

August 20, 2007
HMMI to centrally fund publications by its researchers in BioMed Central's journals

August 1, 2007
Now we are ONE

July 30, 2007
BioOne Joins SERU Pilot Program
Washington, DC

July 18, 2007
SEP Now Needs Only $850,000 to Close the Funding Gap!

July 18, 2007
Cornell University Library and the staff of the Center for Innovative Publishing and E-Publishing Technologies are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of Project Euclid

July 18, 2007
PLoS launches new PLoS ONE rating system

July 18, 2007
Recent Updates from BioMed Central

July 3, 2007
OSTI archives scientific data on the Web
(Trudy Walsh, GCN)...the Energy Department's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has set up a partnership with Internet Archive to provide uninterrupted access to more than a million online research papers from OSTI's E-print Network...

July 3, 2007
BioOne Titles Make Impressive Strides in 2006 ISI JCR

July 3, 2007
At ALA, SPARC Forum Details Economic Stability of Open Access
(LJ Academic Newswire) For roughly the past five years, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has devoted the bulk of its energies to open access (OA). So at this year's SPARC Forum, the organization offered a progress report on OA publishing efforts, specifically, the economic stability of open access...

June 25, 2007
BMC Malaria Journal ranked No. 1 for Tropical Medicine in latest impact factor rankings

June 14, 2007
REPOSITORY SUCCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
New SPARC partnership points to the exemplary subject-specific model behind AgEcon Search

May 31, 2007
Libraries in developing countries: eIFL joins the BBC in broadcasting to the world
The Word, a weekly look at books and writing from the BBC, this week explored libraries, a vital foundation of literary culture, and their role in developing countries.

May 23, 2007
SPO Announces new online edition of Papyrology journal

May 3, 2007
BioOne Announces Free Society Member Access
This groundbreaking program offers societies the option to provide their members free access to their publications on BioOne through referring URL authentication from a secure log-in area on the society website.

April 9, 2007
Support the DOAJ membership program
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

April 2, 2007
BioOne Completes Charter Supporter Subscription Credit Program

February 2, 2007
New SPARC alliance with eIFL.net promotes collaborative efforts for access to research
Independent Foundation Facilitates Access to Journal Literature in Developing and Transitional Countries

 
In Publications 2007
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December 3, 2007
Update on the bill mandating OA at the NIH
from the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December edition.

December 3, 2007
Predictions for 2008
from the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2008 edition.

December 3, 2007
December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue tell the November chapter of the continuing saga of the OA policy at the NIH, especially the Bush veto, the failure of the House to override it, and prospects for the future. It also offers some predictions for open access in 2008. The round-up section briefly notes 101 OA developments from the past month.

November 29, 2007
e-news - October/November 2007

November 2, 2007
November issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue takes a close look at the recent vote in the Senate to require open access for NIH-funded research, and at the surprisingly large number of learned societies that publish OA journals. The round-up section briefly notes 118 OA developments from October.

November 2, 2007
Society publishers with open access journals (with Caroline Sutton)
From the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

November 2, 2007
Victory in the Senate: Update on the bill to mandate open access at the NIH
From the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

October 4, 2007
e-news - August/September 2007

October 2, 2007
October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

September 24, 2007
2008 Open Access Calendar
[PDF] A production of Alma Swan at Key Perspectives.

September 3, 2007
September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue takes a close look at the common objection from publisher trade associations and lobbyists that OA mandates will undermine peer review. The round-up section briefly notes 66 OA developments from August.

August 10, 2007
e-news - June/July 2007

August 3, 2007
August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue takes a close look at a bill moving through Congress that would require open access for NIH-funded research. The round-up section briefly notes 79 OA developments from July.

July 3, 2007
July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

June 4, 2007
June issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue takes a close look at attempts to balance author and publisher rights, primarily in the "author addenda" from CIC, SPARC, and Science Commons, and in the position paper by the ALPSP, AAP/PSP, and STM. The round-up section briefly notes 99 OA developments from May.

May 31, 2007
enews - April/May 2007
SPARC's bi-monthly newsletter for the months of April and May is now online.

May 2, 2007
May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
This issue reviews a couple of dozen trends in scholarly communication that favor open access. The round-up section briefly notes 64 developments from April.

April 2, 2007
April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Now online
This issue takes a close look at two publisher policies to charge fees for OA archiving (green OA): the AuthorChoice policy from the American Chemical Society and the new agreement between Elsevier and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The round-up section briefly notes 77 OA developments from March.

Mar 15, 2007
enews - February/March 2007

Mar 2, 2007
March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter now online
This issue takes a close look at the February events in Europe, primarily the EC’s release of its Communication on OA, and the February events in the US, primarily the National Day of Action for OA. The round-up section briefly notes 65 new developments from the past month.

Feb 2, 2007
enews - December 2006/January 2007

Jan 1, 2007
Public Access: Bringing it All Back Home

In Pricing 2007

October 23, 2007
Max Planck Society Dumps Springer Deal Over Pricing
(Library Journal).

August 10, 2007
Springer editorial board resigns
(from Word Press) ...The new journal is to be distributed by Cambridge University Press. The price is 380 British pounds, which is significantly less than half that of the old journal...

May 2, 2007
Georgia State University Library blogs "Subscription costs for Elsevier's hybrid OA titles"

February 23, 2007
UB breaks with publisher
Norway's biggest university libraries have broken off negotiations with Blackwell Publishing. This means that researchers, students and employees will lose electronic access to 778 journals. As a substitute, they will be offered free paper versions through inter-library loan.