October 7, 2010
Open access publishing takes off in European research community

August 23, 2010
Public Access Hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives
From the NAGPS Postgraduate Voice

August 6, 2010
House Hears New Open Access Fight

August 6, 2010
Free Access to U.S. Research Papers Could Yield $1 Billion in Benefits
From Science Magazine

July 23, 2010
Open Access to Information
UNESCO supports actions designed to empower people so that they can access and contribute to information and knowledge flows.

July 2, 2010
SPARC Europe Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications

July 1, 2010
ALA 2010: At SPARC-ACRL Forum, Catching Up on Cases and Legislation
By Josh Hadro, Library Journal.

May 21, 2010
You deserve access to research
by David Carlson, Southern Illinoisan

April 29, 2010
Open Access Week 2010 to be held from October 18-24
Knowledgespeak

April 15, 2010
New Hope for Open Access
From Insurance News Net

April 15, 2010
Frame of Reference: Open Access Starts with You
By Lori A. Goetsch - Change

April 9, 2010
Scientists Embrace Openness
Science - By Chelsea Wald

February 2, 2010
Student’s video wins library’s ‘SPARKY Award’
By Pete Rosenbery, The Saluki Times

January 29, 2010
Carlson elected to leadership role with coalition
By Christi Mathis, The Saluki Times

January 27, 2010
2009 Sparky Awards at Penn Celebrate Information Sharing
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Press Release

January 22, 2010
At SPARC-ACRL Forum, Reality Check on Open Access Monographs
By Josh Hadro, Library Journal

June 25, 2009
US student bodies call for open access

Industry Trends, June 15, 2009

A coalition of student associations in the USA have signed a statement calling on universities, research funders, and researchers to support open access to research.

June 25, 2009
ALA Conference 2009: Panel To Address Academic Library “Hard Times”
Norman Oder, Library Journal, June 25, 2009

June 23, 2009
Practical Advice on Bridging the Library-Press Divide
Meredith Benjamin, The Exchange Online, June 11, 2009

June 23, 2009
Student Statement on the Right to Research
Learning and inquiry are impeded when scholars lack access to fellow researchers’ work, and when students lack access to the work of scholars before them.

June 23, 2009
Copyright law prevents access to millions of 'orphan works'
Research Information, June 15, 2009

June 23, 2009
Student Coalition Forms to Back Open Access
Inside Higher Ed, June 15, 2009

June 23, 2009
Medical Students, Other Student Groups Endorse Open Access
Josh Hadro, Library Journal, 6/18/2009

June 16, 2009
Open Access Growing Steadily, But Powerful Gatekeepers Remain
The recent vote by MIT faculty to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write marks a sea change in the relationship be­tween academic authors and publishers of scientific journals.

April 21, 2009
Fair to whom? New House bill challenges public access
By Heather Joseph, C&RL News, April 2009