U.S. Call to action: 2011 White House RFI on public access (deadline Jan. 2)

U.S. OA Librarians and organizations elsewhere with OA policy experience, see this call to action fron the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/11-1117.shtml

September 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the September 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Peter's description as posted to the SPARC OA Forum: Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, this issue reflects on the problem of access to dangerous knowledge. It also describes how I'll have to trim future issues to make time for a large new OA project at Harvard. The look-back sections reprint short excerpts from SOAN five and ten years ago this month.

August 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the August 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. No feature article this time, this issue focuses on 5 and 10 years ago and the latest roundup.

New OA journal for us! Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

Thanks to Issac Gilman for a pointer to a new OA Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. So far Pacific University and California Polytechnic State University have put together a great editorial team; now let's do our part by helping this new journal out with some great content!

Open Access and Copyright - July 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Open Access and Copyright is the feature article in Peter Suber's just-released July SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

E-LIS reaches 12,000 documents

E-LIS, the subject repository for library and information science, passed the 12,000 document mark today (it's at 12,004 as I type). Congrats to E-LIS for reaching this level. While this is a fairly auspicious number, there's still loads of library and info. science-related content that could be added to E-LIS. So, to all OA Librarian readers, if you write and present in the subject area, I challenge you to add your material! It's easy to do, taking mere minutes!

Andrew

PS Disclosure: I am one of the Canadian editors for E-LIS.

June 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the June 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: Seeking Custody - when you have permission for OA, but don't have a copy. Plus the usual monthly roundup.