1. News from SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

• A Tribute to Lee Dirks
• SPARC and the World Bank Announce Open Access Week 2012 Kickoff Webcast – “Set the Default to Open Access”
• Webcast Invitation: Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open Educational Resources September 27, 2012
• Advocates Set Ambitious Goal: Setting the Default to Open Access in Ten Years’ Time
• Ten Years after Budapest Open Access Initiative New Recommendations Released
• Join SPARC on Twitter for the latest news, as it happens -- SPARC, The Right to Research and The Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Now, join SPARC groups on Facebook and LinkedIn for news where you travel.

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Featured Video

Now Online: 2012 Open Access Week Kick Off Webcast

2. SPARC Partner News

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

• Ensuring arXiv’s Future
• BioOne Announces 2013 Collection
• PLoS Announces Progress Update
• BioMed Central’s Open Access Africa 2012
• Berlin 10 OA Meeting Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended

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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):

• HTML
  http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.new
• RSS
  http://www.connotea.org/rss/tag/oa.new

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

• HTML
  http://www.connotea.org/user/petersuber/tag/ru.ps
• RSS
  http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/petersuber/tag/ru.ps

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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

Raym Crow is developing a report on the collective provision of open-access infrastructure resources as part of a project sponsored by Knowledge Exchange. Anyone with questions regarding the project should contact Raym Crow at crow@arl.org.

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 hosted its first-ever General Assembly on July 19-21 in Budapest, Hungary.  The meeting convened leaders from student organizations across Europe, the Middle East, and North America to share ideas and successes, build relationships between coalition members, and outline the future of student involvement in Open Access.

Also, the Right to Research Coalition has been formally endorsed by the British Medical Association, which unanimously passed a resolution stating the BMA "welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature."

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
October 22-28, 2012
http://www.openaccessweek.org/ 

SPARC-ACRL Forum
ALA Midwinter, January 2013
Seattle, WA 
More information coming soon! 

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8.  Articles of Interest

• Michael Geist, “Setting the Stage for the Next Decade of Open Access”, The Star, September 16, 2012.
• MarketWatch, “Scientists, Foundations, Universities and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online”, The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2012. 
• “California Passes Nation’s First Open Source Textbook Legislation”, SacObserver.com, September 3, 2012.
• Jennifer Howard, “Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2012.