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Published monthly

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 1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

• CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SPARC DIGITAL REPOSITORIES MEETING – INNOVATION FAIR 
•  Scientists for open data and authors of Panton Principles named SPARC Innovators
• Innovation, the future of e-books, and the Archaeology of the Americas Digital Monograph Initiative
• ALA 2010: At SPARC-ACRL Forum, Catching Up on Cases and Legislation
• SPARC Europe Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications
• Join SPARC on Twitter for the latest news, as it happens -- http://twitter.com/SPARC_NA, http://twitter.com/R2RC and http://twitter.com/TaxpayerAccess

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• July 2010 BioOne News

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For the latest industry news, please consult the monthly SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber. This month's edition features:

• California Against Nature
• Important developments in Open Data
• New books, studies, software, awards, and more

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Research is more valuable when it's shared

 

Sharing enables new research to build on earlier findings. It not only fuels the further advancement of knowledge, it brings scientists and scholars the recognition that advances their careers. In the digital world, the ways we share and use scholarly material are expanding — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly.

 

Online archives of universities, colleges, funding agencies, and other institutions — known as “repositories” — are key components of the emerging digital research infrastructure and can help ensure the widest possible sharing of your works. These repositories collect, preserve, and provide free, unrestricted online access to all types of institutional research outputs — seamlessly linking data, knowledge, and scholars.

 
READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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On Wednesday, February 17, Catherine Mitchell (CDL) and Laura Cerutti (UC Press) joined us to review the progress of the UCPubS program, including the motivations behind their library-press collaboration, the specific services UCPubS provides, their outreach efforts across the campuses, the challenges they’ve encountered so far, and how other presses and libraries can build on this experience.

 

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

 

CONTACT: Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant (crow [at] arl [dot] org)

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This month, the Right to Research Coalition has been very active on Capitol Hill advocating for the issue of public access and, specifically, the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).  The Coalition has had a number of great conversations in both House and Senate offices regarding just how important access to the results of federally funded research is for students.  We invite you to join the Right to Research Coalition in advocating for FRPAA, which you can do through the Alliance for Taxpayer Access' Legislative Action Center at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml.
 

CONTACT: Nick Shockey, SPARC Director of Student Advocacy (nick [at] arl [dot] org)

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