SPARC enews archives are online athttp://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/enews

Published monthly

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 Progress Report, June 2009 [PDF]
• Gaining the momentum: eIFL marks five year commitment to Open Access in South Africa
• BMC adds reporting tool for members

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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.

• 10 university presses endorse OA
• Answering the fear about killing journals
• More on the access crisis: 70% of AAHSL libraries face budget cuts
• A careful confirmation that 70+% of OA journals charge no fees
• Friend of OA becomes US Deputy Chief Technology Officer
• More on the access crisis: UC libraries face budget cuts of up to 20%
• More US institutions join SCOAP3
• California to develop list of approved OA textbooks
• Report recommends OA policy at Concordia U
• OA sourcebook launches
• Shortcut to OA mandates
• OA would save the Netherlands 133 million Euros/year
• US commitment to global health should include commitment to OA
• Sherpa has surveyed 600 publishers

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4. Resources for Authors

• The SPARC-ACRL Forum on Author Rights

  Available via SPARC podcast, this forum offers perspectives on copyright from a librarian, publisher, and an attorney - and is a great introduction to the topic of author rights. Michael Carroll's talk from the attorney perspective, for example, makes clear that "as soon as the author's finished typing, federal law showers down upon the author a set of exclusive rights...the author does not transfer any exclusive rights until the author signs a document."

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. Resources for Publishers

• Index of campus-based publishing partnerships - now online

  The Scholarly Communication Program, based at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, now offers an index of campus-based publishing partnerships. The index employs framework and data from "Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues" by Raym Crow, and is part of the Campus-based Publishing Resource Center organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

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

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

• National student organizations call for Open Access to research

  A coalition of national and regional college student associations today issued a "Student Statement on the Right to Research," calling on universities, research funders, and researchers to take action in support of Open Access to research. The American Medical Student Association, the Student PIRGs, Students for Free Culture, and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, as well as the Trinity University Association of Student Representatives and the California Institute of Technology Graduate Student Council have signed the statement.

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

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

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UPDATE: Open Access Week 2009 (October 19 - 23)

• Get ideas for OA week 2009 by viewing SPARC webcast - 6.25
• New OA Sourcebook available - your "how to" guide
• New Button graphics now available

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8.  Articles of Interest

• Scott Jaschik, Split Over Open Access. Inside Higher Ed, June 4, 2009
• Peter Suber, Lessons from Maryland. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June edition.
• Open Access Growing Steadily, But Powerful Gatekeepers Remain, CAUT Bulletin, June 2009
• Karla Hahn, Achieving the Full Potential of Repository Deposit Policies, Research Library Issues No. 263, April 2009. [PDF]
• Kara J. Malenfant, Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty, forthcoming in College & Research Libraries. [PDF]

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