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Now Online: 2012 Open Access Week Kick Off Webcast
Please see the SPARC Web site for a complete list of news from SPARC partners.
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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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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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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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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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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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