SPARC

1. SPARC News

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2. Partner News

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

• New pricing model for Euclid Prime introduced
• BioOne News 2:3
• BioOne and PCG Announce Marketing and Sales Partnership for North America
• 2007 Impact factors for BMC journals
• 2007 Impact factors for PLoS journals

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Available in SPARC Podcasts & Media:

PUBLIC ACCESS: Federal Research Access Policies and How They'll Change Your Library (SPARC-ACRL Forum, January 2007)

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3. Industry Roundup

Please see the SPARC Web site  and Open Access News for a complete listing of relevant industry news and details on these highlights, including selected commentary from Peter Suber. 

• Stanford education faculty makes articles openly available
• U Calgary first in Canada to establish OA fund
• Caltech grad students draft a resolution on OA
• GWLA joins SCOAP3
• NIH Releases Transcripts for March 20th Meeting
• US Department of Energy has launched the DOE Data Explorer (DDE)
• ACRL supports SCOAP3

NIH Policy - rising author submission rates and statistics:

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4. SPARC Resources for Authors

• NIH Public Access Policy Does Not Affect U.S. Copyright Law
  In response to the NIH's second request for information and public comment on the revised, mandatory public access policy, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) commissioned a legal brief to attempt to raise additional questions about the policy.  The brief falsely asserts that the NIH policy amends U.S. copyright law and adversely affects current international trade agreements. To make clear the misleading nature of AAP's assertions, and to help reiterate that the NIH policy has no affect on U.S. copyright law or international trade, SPARC and ARL, with advice from legal counsel, have prepared a detailed response to AAP's arguments. 
• Also see Chris Boulton's new video on navigating rights.

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. SPARC Resources for Publishers

• Sponsorships for Nonprofit Scholarly & Scientific Journals: A Guide to Defining & Negotiating Successful Sponsorships
  [PDF] This guide describes how nonprofit publishers can evaluate whether a corporate sponsorship program might be appropriate for their journal and, if appropriate, develop a sponsorship program as a component of the journal's income stream. (August 2005)

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   
• Recent student open access news
• 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

Bring SPARC's Right to Research campaign to students on your campus! For information on scheduling an event, contact Gavin Baker at gavin [at] arl [dot] org

SAVE THE DATE:

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008November 17 and 18, 2008,  Baltimore, MD

 July 16-17, 2008 Euroscience Open Forum
SPARC/Science Commons Satellite Session
"Policy and Technology for E-Science"
Barcelona, Spain

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

Education faculty to make articles available to all, Stanford Report, July 9, 2008

Innovative Choice: SPARC gives Innovator Award to Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Library Journal Academic Newswire, June 26, 2008

SPARC Forum: Harvard's Shieber Discusses OA Policy; UC Officials Recall Near Miss, Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 1, 2008

Open Access: Online archives, University Times (from the University of Pittsburgh), July 10, 2008

Two new policies widen the path to balanced copyright management: Developments on author rights, C&RL News, July/August 2008.

Crowdsourcing the Flu Vaccine, Wired Science, July 10, 2008.

SPARC Announces Lineup for 2008 Institutional Repository Conference, Library Journal Academic Newswire, June 24, 2008 

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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.