1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

• PLoS ONE named as the new SPARC Innovator: Public Library of Science changes the face of open-access publishing, again
• EIFL Open Access programme wins the SPARC Europe Award 
• Students release new OA flyer for peer advocacy 
• 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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Featured Video

 

The Case for Open Access: Why is Open Access Important to Your Organization? - Martin Hall

 

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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:

• Open Access and copyright
• Five years ago in SOAN
• Ten years ago in SOAN
• Important developments in Open Data
• New books, studies, software, awards, and more

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Author Rights

In agreeing to publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal, an author must retain key rights in order legally to be able to post that article on his or her personal Web site or to submit to an open repository. Signing a traditional publishing agreement may mean giving those rights away. Learn more about retaining rights and the tools that are available to help authors to do so.
 

READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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Raym Crow moderated a panel discussion by James Mullins, Kizer Walker, and John Wilkin at the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group panel at ALA. The panelists' presentation slides and the audio recordings of the session—“Library-Press Collaboration: How do they work together to advance scholarly communication?”—are available at: http://connect.ala.org/node/150833.  Additional resources for library-press partnerships are available from SPARC's Campus-based Publishing Resource Center:  http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/. 

 

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 on the Right to Research Coalition's blog, two students from the University of British Columbia explain how they got nearly their entire student body of 40,000 to support an open-access mandate at their institution.  Their story is a great primer for how students can be effective advocates and allies for promoting an open-access policy on campus.  The post can be found at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/UBC.shtml.

 

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

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SAVE THE DATES:

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• Isaac Gilman, Pacific University Library and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Library Launch Scholarly Communications Journal, July 8, 2011.
• HHMI, Randy Schekman to Lead New Journal, Institute News, July 11, 2011.