SPARC enews/January 2012 (SPARC)

1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

SPARC/ACRL Forum THIS Saturday at ALA
SPARC honors Michael Nielsen as innovator for bringing Open Science into the mainstream
John Wilbanks to Keynote SPARC Open Access Meeting
Take Action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research
For Blog and News Coverage See Articles of Interest below
Join SPARC on Twitter for the latest news, as it happens --http://twitter.com/SPARC_NA, http://twitter.com/R2RC andhttp://twitter.com/TaxpayerAccess. Now, join SPARC groups on Facebook and LinkedIn for news where you travel.

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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

All recent OA-related developments tagged by participants in the OA Tracking Project (OATP):

The subset of recent OA-related developments tagged by Peter Suber as "roundup-worthy":

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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

The Right to Research Coalition strongly encourages students in the United States to contact their representatives to express their opposition to the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699), a new bill which would ban NIH-style public access policies. More details on H.R. 3699 and resources for contacting your representatives -- including a template letter -- can be found on our blog.

Also this month, two new national medical students' associations, the Association of Medical Students in Bulgaria and the European Medical Student Association -- Turkey, have joined the Right to Research Coalition.

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

Adrienne Burke, “Democrat Maloney and Republican Issa Ally to Hurt Science and Help Companies", Forbes, January 17, 2012.
Jennifer Howard, “University Presses Disagree with Publishers Group on Bill to Curb Public Access", The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2012.
Thomas Lin, “Cracking Open the Scientific Process", The New York Times, January 16, 2012.
Lena Groeger, “New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls", ProPublica, January 12, 2012.
Michael Eisen’s letter to the editor, “Research Bought, Then Paid For", The New York Times, January 10, 2012.
Michael Kelley, “Librarians, Open Access Advocates ‘Vehemently Oppose’ Research Works Act", The Digital Shift blog, January 9, 2012.
AnnMaria De Mars, “Research Works Act: Latest Congressional Lie About Helping Small Business", January 7, 2012.
Heather Morrison, “In Lieu of Flowers: An Open Letter to the American Association of Cancer Research", The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics blog, January 6, 2012.
Kevin Zelnio, “Scientists, Fight for Access", EvoEcoLab blog, January 6, 2012.
Mita Williams, “Academic Publishers Acting Badly", New Jack Librarian blog, January 6, 2012.
Maura Smale, “Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition)", ACRLog blog, January 6, 2012.
Rob Simmons, “Why Does the ACM Act Against the Interests of Scholars?", Request for Logic blog, January 5, 2012.
Christine Ross, “A Case of Open and Shut", Copyright on Campusblog, January 5, 2012.
Jason Baird Jackson, “Behind the Research Works Act: Which U.S. Representatives are Receiving Cash from Reed Elsevier", Shreds and Patches blog, January 5, 2012.