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 Europe Webcast invitation: OpenAIRE – What libraries need to know
• SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA: Focusing on the Berlin Open Access Declaration
• Two weeks left to enter the 2011 Sparky Awards!
• 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

Featured Video

The Case for Open Access: How is Open Access Important to the UK Economy and Society? - Mark Patterson

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2. SPARC Partner News

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

• BioMed Central’s OA Advocate of the Year Award Given to Andrew Waller, University of Calgary
• Speakers for IMLS-sponsored Library Publishing Services Workshops Announced
• arXiv Business Planning Update

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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:

• Free Offline Access: A Primer on OA' (OA Prime)
• 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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4. Authors & Researchers

Campus-based open-access policies

The Internet has brought unparalleled opportunities for expanding the availability of research by bringing down economic and physical barriers to sharing. To take advantage of these opportunities and to further their mission of creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge, many academic institutions are taking steps to capture the benefits of Open Access by building digital repositories to distribute faculty scholarly articles and other research outputs.

READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. Resources for Publishers

Raym Crow is speaking on sustainability planning and best practices at the “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” workshops being held at Georgia Tech, the University of Utah, and Purdue  University in May. The workshops are part of an IMLS-funded project, led by the Libraries and Press at Purdue, to improve the effectiveness of library-based publishing programs. The project’s deliverables, including a survey of library publishing operations and case studies of three specific programs, will be available on the SPARC Campus-based Publishing Resource Center (http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/) in June.

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

On May 20th & 21st, the Right to Research Coalition will host the first annual European Student Summit on Open Access at Humboldt University in Berlin. This meeting will bring together officials from leading European and international student organizations to discuss how the issue of access to research affects each organization and to create a strategy for getting European students engaged in opening access to the results of research.

Also, the Right to Research Coalition has just released its new Open Access flyer along with a list of top ten ideas for using it, which you can find on the coalition's blog at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog.

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

Berlin 9 Open Access Meeting
November 9 & 10, 2011, Washington, DC

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8. Articles of Interest 

• Stephen Bosch, Kittie Henderson, & Heather Klusendorf, “Periodicals Price Survey 2011 | Under Pressure, Times Are Changing," Library Journal, April 14, 2011.