August 4, 2010
Unanimous faculty votes
From Peter Suber's June 2010 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

August 4, 2010
California against Nature
From Peter Suber's July 2010 Issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

July 23, 2010
Open Access Week: Library Strategies for Advancing Change
By Andrew Waller and Jamaica Jones. In the new issue of Research Library Issues.

June 2, 2010
Unanimous faculty votes for institutional OA policies

May 2, 2010
FRPAA introduced in the US House of Representatives
From Peter Suber’s May 2010 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

April 2, 2010
A Verb for the Act of Providing Open Access
From Peter Suber’s April 2010 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

March 2, 2010
Open Access, Markets, and Missions
From Peter Suber’s March 2010 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

February 2, 2010
Four analogies to clean energy
From Peter Suber’s November 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

January 2, 2010
Open access in 2009
From Peter Suber’s November 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

December 3, 2009
Open access and the Google book settlement
From Peter Suber’s November 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

December 3, 2009
Open access and the Google book settlement
From Peter Suber’s November 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

November 3, 2009
Knowledge as a Public Good
From Peter Suber’s November 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

October 2, 2009
Ten challenges for open-access journals
From Peter Suber’s September 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

September 22, 2009
SPARC Member Spotlight: Testing the waters with open-access funds (University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary)
In a move to encourage researchers to make their work open to the public, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary established funds that faculty and graduate students could use cover publication charges for open access journals. After a year of implementation in Calgary and Berkeley, librarians at these universities are reviewing their efforts and are pleased to report on the results.

September 3, 2009
Abridgment As Added Value
From Peter Suber’s September 2009 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

August 2, 2009
The return of FRPAA

June 3, 2009
Lessons from Maryland

From the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2009 edition, by Peter Suber.

Is the Maryland vote ominous or anomalous?  Either way, supporters of OA should try to understand it.  Whatever its causes, they could arise again elsewhere...

May 11, 2009
The open access tracking project (OATP)

From the May 2009 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber

Two weeks ago I launched the beta version of the open access tracking project (OATP), a collaborative effort to track new OA developments worldwide...

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

April 17, 2009
SPARC-Oberlin Group Webcast on Harvard Policy
On February 25 SPARC hosted a webcast for Oberlin Group liberal arts colleges about Harvard University’s open access policy. A number of Oberlin Group colleges are in various stages of discussing faculty open access policies similar to those that have been adopted at Harvard, MIT, and the Stanford University School of Education, and the webcast served to reinforce these ongoing conversations by answering key questions from librarians and faculty members. Both Trinity University and Oberlin College are now in advanced stages of policy development.

April 3, 2009
A field guide to misunderstandings about open access

From the April 2009 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber

The woods are full of misunderstandings about OA.  They thrive in almost every habitat, and the population soars whenever a major institution adopts an OA policy.  Contact between new developments and new observers who haven't followed the annual migrations always results in a colorful boomlet of young misunderstandings. Some of these misunderstandings are mistaken for one another, especially in the flurry of activity, because of their similar markings and habitat.  Some are mistaken for understanding by novices unfamiliar with the medley of variant plumage, adaptive camouflage, and deceptive vocalizations.  This field guide should help you identify 25 of the most common visitors to your neck of the woods.

March 16, 2009
Re-introduction of the bill to kill the NIH policy

  From the March SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber

The Conyers bill is back (or baaaack).  This is the bill to repeal the OA policy at the NIH and block similar policies at all other federal agencies.  Its sponsors named it the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, but the bill is to fair copyright what the Patriot Act was to patriotism.

March 16, 2009
Open access policy options for funding agencies and universities

From the February SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber

Every research funding agency should have an OA policy, many already do, and most are probably thinking about it.  Here's a guide to the major decisions which come up in framing a new policy, reviewing an older one, or thinking about policies elsewhere.  Peter Suber starts with the choice-points facing funding agencies (1-12), and then look briefly at the choice-points which only arise for universities (13-18).  He offers a recommendation for each. 

January 23, 2009
enews feature: UMass Amherst asks faculty, "Got Rights?"

January 2, 2009
Peter Suber's Highlights in Open Access 2008