1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

• Webcast invitation: Open Access Week Idea Swap
• SPARC Announces expanded Open Access meeting
• Call to Action: Sign the Berlin Declaration
• SPARKY People Choice Contest Deadline is September 23rd
• 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.

• BioOne Announces 2012 Collections
• BioMed Central's Open Access Africa, 2011

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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:

• Access to dangerous knowledge: reflections on 9/11 ten years later
• Scaling back the newsletter
• Five years ago in SOAN
• Ten years ago in SOAN
• Coming this quarter
• Credits

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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.

READ more More SPARC Resources for Authors.

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5. Resources for Publishers

Income Models for Supporting Open Access

This Web site and accompanying guide provide an overview of income models currently being used to support the open-access distribution of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals. These resources will be a useful tool both for publishers exploring new potential sources of income and for libraries weighing where to direct meager library funds.

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 welcomed three new members this month, including our first from South America.  The new additions are the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - The Netherlands, Direção Executiva Nacional dos Estudantes de Medicina (Brazil), and the Athabasca University Graduate Students' Association.

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

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7. Upcoming events 

SAVE THE DATES:

Open Access Week 2011
October 24-30, 2011

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

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8.  Articles of Interest

• David Rapp,  Open Access Coalition Formed by 22 Academic Institutions, The Library Journal, August 8, 2011.
• George Monbiot, Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a Socialist, The Guardian, August 29, 2011.
• Peter Suber, Access to dangerous knowledge: reflections on 9/11 ten years later, from Peter Suber's September 2011 Issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 5, 2011.