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SPARC at ALA

• SPARC-ACRL Denver Forum to Focus on Open Educational Resources, 4pm Saturday
• SCOAP3 Information Session at ALA Midwinter, 10:30am Saturday 

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enews feature: UMass Amherst asks faculty, "Got Rights?"

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.

• The January/February 2009 issue of the eIFL newsletter is now available
• The Public Knowledge Project has launched a OA collection of presentations and course material
• PLoS ONE featured in the Scientist
• Rapidly growing usage at Bioline's 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.

• NSF advisory committee recommends OA
• Springer's first US deal in which subscriptions cover publication fees for affiliated authors
• 1300 repositories listed in OpenDOAR
• New services to implement the Harvard OA policies
• Updates to ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
• Varmus to lead Obama's science advisory council
• Study on licensing practices for OERs
• Introducing the Open Knowledge Commons
• Wash U offers flowchart for NIH policy compliance
• Nature expands green and hybrid gold OA options
• Dave Gray, Free the facts! -- drawings to illustrate the problems of the toll-access journal system
• Publishing Research Consortium, Journal authors' rights: perceptions and reality

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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 Resources for Publishers.  

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

• Videos from Free Culture 2008

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

"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

• University of California Libraries, Springer Strike Open Access Deal, Library Journal, January 22, 2009
• IP From Publicly Funded Research Should Benefit The Public, Experts Say, Intellectual Property Watch, January 16, 2009.
• Educause Review. January/February 2009 - including a special section on open textbooks
• Baltimore SPARC IR and SUN PASIG Meetings, DLib, January/February 2009
• Free (or Fee) to All?, Library Journal, December 23, 2008
• Peter Suber's Highlights in Open Access 2008, The SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2009 
• The Top Eight Science Policy News Stories of 2008, Science Progress, December 22, 2008
• The University of Europe: accessible to all, The Guardian, January 16, 2009
• Stuck-in-the-Past Va. Physics Texts Getting Online Jolt, The Washington Post, November 30, 2008

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