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In this issue:

>SPARC News
>Partner News
>Industry Roundup
>Resources for Authors
>Resources for Publishers
[NEW]Resources for Students
>Upcoming Events
>Articles of Interest

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enews feature: Berkeley steps forward with bold initiative to pay authors' open-access charges  

It's one thing to say you support open-access publishing. It's another to provide authors with a pot of money to actually pay for it. That's what's happening at the University of California Berkeley. In January, the university launched the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative, a pilot program co-sponsored by the University Librarian and the Vice Chancellor for Research to cover publication charges for open-access journals...  

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 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.

• Putting the patient first: Cases Journal holds the promise of better care
• BioOne Releases New Model Publication Agreement
• eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons
• New Screencast: Submitting to OCS
• eIFL tries to balance copyright and access to knowledge
• Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership; Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid
• BioMed Central breast cancer journal celebrates its 10th anniversary

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Now available in SPARC Podcasts & Media:

Winners of the 2007 Sparky Awards - student video-shorts on the value of information sharing

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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. 

• You wrote it; You own it! - Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals (The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, or The Journal of General Physiology) now retain copyright to their published work.
• Publishers' policies on the NIH Public Access Policy, from the University of Rochester Medical Center
• Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles
• Open Access Directory: A wiki to organize information about the open access movement
• Student video on Open Access
• Launch of Open Humanities
• Ticer's Digital Libraries à la Carte
• How to use copyright wisely within scholarly communication, the English version of the SURF Web site
• C&RL preprints go open access
• WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For Assembly
• Irish Research Council moves to improve access to research findings
• Reminder About the NIH Public Access Policy, an email from the NIH
• Science Commons' Thinh Nguyen on keeping data open and free
• EC recommends OA for publicly-funded research [pdf]
• Jorum to move to open access
• University of Southampton announces institutional Open Access mandate
• Maine InfoNet has joined SCOAP3
• Repository66 map updated to display 920 repositories
• University of Stirling research goes global

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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 

Also see: Harold Varmus on Implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy (A PLoS Biology editorial)

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. SPARC Resources for Publishers

• NIH Updates its Public Access Policy FAQ

Also see: The BioOne New Model Publication Agreement

More SPARC Resources for Publishers.  

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6. SPARC Resources for Students 

New from openstudents.org:

• Doing OER and OA: More Questions than Answers, by Ken Udas 
• Call for contributors: Write for Open Students! 
• Canadian students release statement on copyright policy 
• My academic publishing experience: barriers to open access, by Samir Chopra

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 

May 15, 2008
CARL Annual Meeting
Kingston, Ontario
"Improving the Dissemination of Research Outputs"

May 26, 2008
The Open Access Documentary Project
New York City, New York
"SPARC and the Open Access Movement"

June 9-10, 2008
The Crimea Conference, "Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business"
Sudak, Crimea
"SPARC and the Open Access Movement"

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

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8.  Articles of Interest

• Library Journal's Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Open Access Hits Critical Mass
• Implementing the new NIH policy: Featuring university-sponsored resources for authors, From the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2008, by Peter Suber.
• Chemists spin a web of data, Nature, May 7, 2008
• New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7
• You pay... and now they display, The Guardian, April 29, 2008
• Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating, Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2008
• Theses For All, The Harvard Crimson, April 10, 2008
• Harold Varmus talks about the NIH policy on NPR's Science Friday
• Public access begins, The Scientist, April 7, 2008
• Perspective on Open-Access Publishing: An Interview with Peter Suber, Journal of Online Education, April-May 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.