SPARC enews/November 2011 (SPARC)

1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

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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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3. Highlights from the Open Access movement

Peter Suber-tagged OA-related developments:

All recent OA-related developments (thanks to all participating OATP taggers).

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4. Authors & Researchers

Research is more valuable when it's shared

Sharing enables new research to build on earlier findings. It not only fuels the further advancement of knowledge, it brings scientists and scholars the recognition that advances their careers. In the digital world, the ways we share and use scholarly material are expanding — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly.

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5. Resources for Publishers

Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report

Publishing services provided by libraries are expanding and professionalizing, suggests a new report released for comment today by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, on behalf of a team of researchers from the libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah. The report is the result of a year-long study of library publishing services made possible by a collaborative planning grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with additional support from Berkeley Electronic Press and Microsoft Research.

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

During Open Access Week, the Right to Research Coalition launched two important new resources. The first, an open publishing guide for students, presents young researchers with the ways in which they can make their research openly available for the widest possible readership and lays out the benefits of doing so – both as authors and as readers. The second, a collection of translations of our Open Access Flyer in Arabic, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish, will help students around the world continue to raise awareness of Open Access and demonstrates the Right to Research Coalition's diverse, global membership.

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

SAVE THE DATES:

ACRL/SPARC Forum
January 21, 2012 - 4-6pm
Dallas Convention Center, A201/202

SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting
March 11-13, 2012
Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel

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8. Articles of Interest

Jennifer Howard, “At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2011.
Annalee Newitz, “ Who needs government-funded research on a cow’s stomach? We do.”, The Washington Post, November 4, 2011.
Jennifer Howard, “Academic Libraries Expand Their Publishing Services, but With Limited Resources”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 1, 2011.
Alliance for Taxpayer Access, "Turning To Open-Access Publishing To Advance Research Quest", Under the Microscope, October 25, 2011.

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