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.

• Open Access Evangelist and PLoS Editor Wins 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award
• DOAJ will offer long-term preservation for OA journals
• PLoS ONE launches a blog
• DOAJ tops 4,000 peer-reviewed OA journals

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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.

• MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate
• Harvard's Kennedy School adopts an OA mandate
• Open textbook supporter headed to Obama's Dept. of Education
• Harvard's letter opposing the Conyers bill
• CISTI's efforts to open data
• Four more US universities join SCOAP3
• OA commentator moving to Obama's OSTP
• Testimony from last fall's hearing on the Conyers bill
• Bill in Congress would require agency support for OA textbooks
• More funding for open textbook publisher
• Data-sharing advocate named Obama's health IT coordinator

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4. Resources for Authors

• New program helps Canadian researchers get greater reach for their research

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. Resources for Publishers

• New SPARC Guide and Online Community Aid Library-University Press Collaboration

  SPARC has released Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A guide to critical issues, by Raym Crow. The guide is the core of a new Web site, the Campus-based Publishing Resource Center, designed by a panel of advisors from the library and university press communities to support successful publishing partnerships.

More SPARC guides, tools, and links for publishers are available on the SPARC Web site.

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

• SPARKY VIDEO CONTEST GOES LOCAL, ADDS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
• Athanasia Pontika, Introducing the Open Access Directory, a wiki resource about Open Access, Open Students, February 25, 2009.

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

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 7. Upcoming events

SAVE THE DATES:

Open Access Week 2009
October 19 - 23, 2009

SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
November 8 - 9, 2010
Baltimore, MD, USA

DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC Present All About Repositories Webinar Series 

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

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 8.  Articles of Interest

• Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born, Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 2009, Library Journal, April 15, 2009
• Leslie Chan, Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age, Academic Matters, April 14, 2009
• Heather Joseph, Fair to whom? New House bill challenges public access, College & Research Libraries News, April 2009
• Gabe Schubiner, In Defense of Open Access, The Eye, April 9, 2009
• Richard J. Roberts, Protect our access to medical research, Boston Globe, March 23, 2009
• Mike Rossner, An unfair formula. Boston Globe, March 30, 2009.
• Declan Butler, The textbook of the future, Nature, April 1, 2009
• Pat Lohmann, Students mourn outdated textbooks, New Mexico Daily Lobo, March 26, 2009
• Alicia Brown, 'Open Access' repository to house works of OSU faculty publishers, The Daily Barometer, April 9, 2009.
• Meredith Wadman, Open-access policy flourishes at NIH, Nature, April 7, 2009
• Molly Kleinman, Lessons from Open Access Week, Molly Kleinman, March 30, 2009
• Dawn Lim, Cornell Librarians Protest Bill Closing Access to NIH Research, Cornell Daily Sun, March 30, 2009
• Andrew Albanese, Another First, as MIT Faculty Adopts "University-Wide" Open Access Policy, Library Journal, 3/25/2009
• Jeffrey Young, MIT Professors Approve Campuswide Policy to Publish Scholarly Articles Free Online, Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog, March 23, 2009
• Jennifer Howard, U. of Michigan Press Reorganizes as a Unit of the Library, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2009
• Scott Jaschik, Farewell to the Printed Monograph, Inside Higher Ed, March 23, 2009
• Peter Suber, A field guide to misunderstandings about open access, The SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2009

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