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• Project Euclid reaches 1 million page milestone
• 2011 Pricing Information from Duke University Press
• BioMed Central Cites Harvard as an Open-Access Institution of the Year

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Join the movement
toward opening access to research. Join SPARC!

SPARC has created successful, proven programs that provide the opportunity for member libraries to actively engage on the local, national and international levels and ensure that they have a leading role in determining how the system of scholarly communication continues to evolve in the digital age.

 

Is your library a SPARC member? Learn more at http://www.arl.org/sparc/member

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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:

• Unanimous faculty votes
• Important developments in Open Data
• New books, studies, software, awards, and more

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Complete the SPARC Author Addendum Online

Enter basic information about your article and generate a printable addendum to your publishing agreement in one easy step. Produced by Science Commons, the Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine features the SPARC Author Addendum.

 
READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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Raym Crow will be participating in two panels on ebooks, financial sustainability, and academic libraries at the Association of American University Presses meeting, June 17 - 20 in Salt Lake City. The theme of this year's AAUP meeting is "Toward a Sustainable Future."

 

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 will begin the first stage of its year-long project of international expansion focusing on Europe.  Also, we're excited to welcome Julia Mortyakova, the immediate past president of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students, who will be working with us here in DC this summer.
 

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

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SAVE THE DATES:

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• Andrew Albanese, A Failure to Communicate, Publishers Weekly, June 14, 2010.
• Gilles J. Frydman, Patient Driven Research: Rich Opportunities and Real Risks, Phoenix Rising, June 12, 2010.
• John Timmer, California libraries gearing up for fight against Nature (Updated), ARS Technica, June 10, 2010.
• Charles D. Eckman and Beth T. Weil, Institutional Open Access Funds: Now is the Time, PLoS Biology, May 25, 2010.
• David Carlson, You deserve access to research, Southern Illinoisan, May 21, 2010.