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.

• PLoS ONE featured in The Scientist
• BioOne News 3:1 (January 2009)

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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.

• Autism Speaks' open access policy makes the top 10
• Boston U adopts an OA policy, apparently
• YouTube testing CC licenses
• Notes from library meeting on Google Books settlement 
• More than 500 publishers listed in RoMEO
• Calling on universities to maximize the dissemination of research
• Trinity University to consider an OA mandate
• More on open data licensing
• Report on libraries and repositories
• The state of data sharing in Canada 
• Australia's draft research assessment system requires deposit in IRs 
• Flat World Knowledge starts public beta 

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4. Resources for Authors

• Media and legal experts create a code to help teachers and students understand fair use of copyrighted materials, from the Center for Social Media

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

• Recent news on students and open access, from openstudents.org

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 

"Open Access and Libraries," March 17, 2009, at Columbia University Heather Joseph, "SPARC and Electronic Serial Publications--Open Access and Not-so-Open Access to the Serial Literature Vital to Research in the Scholarly Community"

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

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 8.  Articles of Interest

• Heather Joseph Q & A: An Open Access Advocate Discusses Why She Feels Overturning the NIH Policy Would be a Big Mistake,
  The Scientist, February 9, 2009.
• Federal Players: The NIH's David Lipman.From the Partnership for Public Service.  The Washington Post, February 9, 2009.
• Bill Against NIH Open-Access Policy Back in House,by Matt Jones.  GenomeWeb Daily News, February 5, 2009.
• New Wrinkles as Bill Banning NIH-Like Public Access Resurfaces,
  by Andrew Albanese.  The Library Journal, February 5, 2009.
• The Publisher's Pushback against NIH's Public Access and Scholarly Publishing Sustainability, by John Willinsky. Published in PLoS Biology, January 27, 2009
   
• Obama's team must fight 'cultural agoraphobia', by James Boyle. Financial Times, December 17, 2008.
   
• Physicists Set Plan in Motion to Change Publishing System, by Jeffrey Young. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2009.
• I'm Battling Cancer. How About Some Help, Congress? Letter from Patrick Swayze as published in The Washington Post, February 8, 2009.

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