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SPARC enews/May 2010

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

 

Published monthly

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1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Important articles on access to the scientific literature and data were published this month. Take a look below, under Articles of Interest.

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2. SPARC Partner News

Please see the SPARC Web site for a complete list of news from SPARC partners.

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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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3. Industry Roundup

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

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4. Resources for Authors 

Campus-based funds support open-access publication for authors

An open-access fund is a pool of money set aside by an institution to support publication models that enable free, immediate, online distribution of, and access to, scholarly research. SPARC supports experimentation with open-access funds across institutions of all shapes and sizes. By making it easier for authors to publish in open-access journals, open-access funds foster the exploration of new and innovative publishing models across the research community.

More SPARC Resources for Authors.

 

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5. Resources for Publishers

Raym Crow will be presenting the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals in Montreal on May 31st. His presentation--"From the US looking in: Promise and possibility for the research community, scholarly journals, and university libraries in Canada"--will discuss the opportunity for Canadian societies, libraries, and universities to establish a sustainable and equitable journals publishing collaboration.
 
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)
 

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

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6. SPARC Resources for Students

Right to Research Coalition Director to present at Apple's AcademiX 2010 - The Digital Natives Are Getting Restless: the Student Voice of the Open Access Movement

Register now to listen in TODAY

Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition, Director of Student Advocacy, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Abstract: Students today are digital natives. We’ve grown up in a world of unfettered access to digital information, instant gratification in the best possible sense. Yet when we need access to scholarly journals, we’re suddenly locked out. Though our education literally depends on them, we’re often cut off from journals crucial to our research, our papers, and our understanding of both details and the larger picture. However, students, in addition to numerous other stakeholders, are quickly realizing that access barriers to journals are as unnecessary as they are harmful. We’re working to reform the current academic publishing system into one that is open and equitably serves the interests of all who depend on it, not just those who can afford the often high cost of access.

Who Should Attend?

AcademiX 2010 is offered to individuals engaged in the production, distribution, and use of scholarly communications who are either employed by, or attend, institutions of Higher Education. The intended audiences are faculty, administrators, instructional technologists, developers, librarians and students.

Register now at http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2610 

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

 

 

Read more on the SPARC-sponsored, Baker-authored Open Students Blog.

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7. Upcoming events

SAVE THE DATES:
ACRL/SPARC Forum
Saturday, June 26
4:00 - 6:00pm
Washington Convention Center, Room 206
Open Access Week
October 18 - 24, 2010
www.openaccessweek.org
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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8.  Articles of Interest

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You can help create a more equitable system for scholarly communication. Join SPARC!  

Here are three things SPARC member libraries focused on in 2008:

  • Ensuring public access to publicly funded research
  • Raising libraries' profile in campus policy
  • Expanding the coalition for Open Access to research
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