SPARC enews/June 2008 (SPARC)

1. SPARC News

SPARC-ACRL Forum at ALA to address Harvard open access policy
New tools promote wider sharing of research for scholars across disciplines; Create Change bookmarks now available
SPARC comments to NIH, in response to call for public comment [PDF]
Introducing The Right to Research campaign, a letter from SPARC to instruction librarians (April 2008) [PDF]
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008: Registration is now open

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2. Partner News

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

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Available in SPARC Podcasts & Media:

Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright (SPARC/ACRL Forum - ALA Midwinter 2006)

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3. Industry Roundup

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

CLA Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
New Beta version of the Ranking Web of World Repositories
Open Access News is six
OA speakers bureau added to the Open Access Directory
Six Australian universities have joined the CERN SCOAP3 project
University of Oregon senate encourages use of an author addendum
OA science channel on YouTube
Helping authors comply with the NIH policy
JISC joins SCOAP3
Collins resigns from Genome Institute

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4. SPARC Resources for Authors

Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their works through their institution. A new white paper from SPARC and Science Commons.
NIH Updates its Public Access Policy FAQ

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. SPARC Resources for Publishers

NIH Updates its Public Access Policy FAQ

More SPARC Resources for Publishers.

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

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

New from openstudents.org:

The NIH, public access, and you, by Nelson Pavlosky, SPARC Summer Intern 2008
Call for contributors: Write for Open Students!

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

The SPARC-ACRL Forum in Anaheim, CA

Campus Open Access Policies: The Harvard Experience and How to Get There

Saturday, June 28, 2008

4:00 - 5:30PM

SAVE THE DATE:

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008

November 17 and 18, 2008, Baltimore, MD

June 25, 2008
Preconference Workshop - ELPUB 2008
Toronto, Ontario
"Opening Scholarship: Strategies for Integrating Open Access and Open Education"

June 27, 2008
Closing Plenary Session, ELPUB 2008
Toronto, Ontario
"Research Access Policies"

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

Shieber To Lead Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Library Journal, May 22, 2008

Open access and the self-correction of knowledge, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2008. By Peter Suber

Publish AND Perish? Protecting Your Copyrights From Your Publisher
[PDF] By Jonathan Band. American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter (May 2008).

Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research
The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 29, 2008

New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 2008

What can Bloggers do for Open Access? by Sukdev Singh

"An Introduction to Health Commons" by John Wilbanks

Editorial: A New Approach to Scholarship Access, The Oberlin Review, February 29, 2008

Biotech Breakthroughs: 15 Developments That Will Eventually Affect YOUR Life, Technut News. May 18, 2008

PubChemSR: A search and retrieval tool for PubChem, Chemistry Central, 2008

Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year Ago, National Geographic News. May 16, 2008

Kevin L. Smith, Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access: Strategies to Ensure Compliance. ARL Bi-monthly Report, June 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.