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