1. SPARC News

    * New Web tools help educators use Sparky video awards in fall courses - Student video contest promotes critical thinking and creative expression
    * Now online: Video from the SPARC-ACRL forum on Campus Open Access Policies
    * New: Open Access Teaser Cards, for the Right to Research Campaign
    * SPARC Europe and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Agreement
    * SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008: Early bird registration ends September 15

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2. Partner News

Please see the SPARC Web site for a complete list of news from SPARC partners.

    * SPARC Publisher Partner Evolutionary Ecology Research awarded Eminent Ecologist Award
    * New pricing model for Euclid Prime introduced
    * BioOne and PCG Announce Marketing and Sales Partnership for North America

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Available in SPARC Podcasts & Media:

The 2008 SPARKY Awards invitational video

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3. Industry Roundup

Please see the Open Access News Blog for more on these and other industry developments from the past month.

    * Oxford Journals now deposits NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central
    * NIH Releases Transcripts for March 20th Meeting
    * QUT creates experimental OA journal fund
    * OA mandate at France's ANR
    * Microsoft Research Unveils Free Software Tools to Help Scholars and Researchers Share Knowledge
    * New interim policy from the American Psychological Association
    * Canada's NRC adopts an OA mandate
    * Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors

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4. SPARC Resources for Authors

    * New Create Change interview features Foreign Languages professor Daniel Ferreras
    * Guidance for researchers on the NIH Public Access Policy - [PDF] An article by Norka Ruis Bravo, in the July newsletter of the American Society for Cell Biology

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. SPARC Resources for Publishers

    * Publishing Cooperatives: An Alternative for Society Publishers - A SPARC Discussion Paper (Released September 2006) [PDF]

 More SPARC Resources for Publishers. 

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

New from openstudents.org:

    * Fair game: a grad student's adventures in fair use and copyright, by Chris Boulton, including this very cool video  
    * The NIH, public access, and you, by Nelson Pavlosky, SPARC Summer Intern 2008

Read more on the SPARC-sponsored, Baker-authored Open Students Blog.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2008 SPARKY AWARDS - Competition showcases student productions, offers instructors a fun and thought-provoking class assignment

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7. Upcoming events

SAVE THE DATE:

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
November 17 and 18, 2008,  Baltimore, MD
 
August 15, 2008
Utah Academic Library Consortia Retreat
"Scholarly Communication and the Library"
Salt Lake City, Utah

These and other important events can be found on the SPARC Activities Calendar.

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8.  Articles of Interest

Guidance for researchers on the NIH Public Access Policy [PDF] An article by Norka Ruis Bravo, in the July newsletter of the American Society for Cell Biology

Gratis and libre Open Access, from the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August edition. By Peter Suber

Should Publishers Have a Role--and an Interest--in Facilitating NIH Compliance? Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 24

PubMed Central Submissions Jump Sharply Under New NIH Policy, Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 24

Open or Shut? The Question of Open Access [PDF] An article by Aaron Welborn, in WUSTL's spring 2008 Off the Shelf.

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You can help open access to research.

SPARC membership is open to North American and international academic and research institutions that share an interest in creating a more open and diverse marketplace for scholarly communication. Visit the SPARC Web site to learn how.