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

• SPARC Meeting Highlights Power of Repositories for Driving Open Access
• SPARC announces January Innovator – Ventura Perez
• Open Access Week 2011 dates announced
• 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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2. SPARC Partner News

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

• Developing Sustainability Strategies for arXiv
• January 2011 BioOne News
• Project Euclid's MathJax Implementation Creates 'Beautiful Math' Online
• Initial Meeting of the PKP European Network (PKPEN)

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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:

• Open Access 2010
• Important developments in Open Data
• New books, studies, software, awards, and more

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4. Authors & Researchers

ACRL/ARL/SPARC Web cast: Understanding Author Rights

This one hour webcast is designed to help librarians better engage disciplinary faculty and researchers on the topic of author rights. Learn the basic issues and understand outreach strategies.

READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. Resources for Publishers

For a resource guide to campus-based publishing, SPARC seeks sample planning and policy documents from existing publishing initiatives. Documents sought include business plans, publishing prospectuses, charters and governance documents, memoranda of understanding for publishers or partnerships, author agreements and instructions, editorial and peer review policies, licensing and copyright policies, metadata standards, technical specifications, etc. Please contact Raym Crow (crow[at]arl.org) with any suggestions or questions.

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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6. SPARC Resources for Students

The Right to Research Coalition has just launched a new Access Around the World blog series, where student guest contributors from all over the globe will document how access barriers to research affect them.  Read the second post from Luís Machado.  Luís recently graduated from medical school in Portugal and is the European Medical Students’ Association’s liaison officer to the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME).

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

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7. Upcoming events

SAVE THE DATES:

4th Annual SPARKY Award Deadline
May 26, 2011

Open Access Week 2011
October 24-30, 2011

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8. Articles of Interest 

• Gavin Baker, Science Package Addresses Access to Federally-Funded Research, Scientific Collections, OMB Watch, December 21, 2010.
• Announcing Scientific Reports, a new open access publication, Nature Publishing Group, January 6, 2011.
• Bradley Fikes, First WikiLeaks, Now ScienceLeaks, NCTimes.com Blogs, January 3, 2011.
• Travis Kaya, Coalition Looks to Rally Student Support for Open-Access Publishing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2010.