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

Published monthly 

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Open Access Week 2009
October 19 - 23, 2009

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

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.

• BioOne News, April 2009
• Pfizer supports open access publishing for researchers in low-income countries, a BMC press release
• PLoS Medicine turns 5 this year
• Libraries around the world support Open Access to critical research from developing countries through BioLine International

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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.

• Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation merge
• Student campaign for OA at Yale
• Elsevier confirms 6 fake journals; more comments
• Journal theme issue on OERs
• An OA mandate for U of Oregon library faculty
• Good primer on publication agreements for scholarly authors
• Open data in swine flu virus
• More on the deepening access crisis
• More on the economics of OA publishing
• Five US universities and a US consortium join SCOAP3
• UC Press and CDL collaborate

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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

• SPARC and ACRL release materials on the progress of open access journal publishing

  SPARC and ACRL have released interviews and analysis exploring in depth the views of three major open access publishers on the challenges of sustainability. The materials were produced in conjunction with the 15th SPARC-ACRL Forum on Emerging Issues in Scholarly Communication, which took place on June 23, 2007. The Forum offered participants the opportunity to engage in conversation with top executives from the three organizations. Speakers included Mark Patterson, director of publishing for the Public Library of Science; Bryan Vickery, deputy publisher for BioMed Central and Editorial Director for Chemistry Central; and Paul Peters, director of business development for Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Alma Swan of Key Perspectives Ltd., moderated the session. Podcasts and slides from the event are now available at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala07. The new materials offer a deeper level of insight into the three publishers' business models.

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

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

• Publicly funded research for a price, Marketplace, April 28, 2009
• "Copyright Battle Looms for Docs Who 'Grew Up Google' - Should Medical Studies Be Posted Free for All to See and Learn From?" ABC News, April 22, 2009
• Mike Rossner, A challenge to Goliath. Journal of Experimental Medicine, April 27, 2009
• James Boyle, What the information superhighways aren't built of..., Financial Times, April 17, 2009 

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