November 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the November 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlighted this month: politically selective calls for open access.

http://www.arl.org/news/pr/iscwebinar-04oct10.shtml

Register by Nov. 10 for next (and last) ARL ACRL Institute for Scholarly Communication Webinar with Joyce Ogburn & Heather Morrison on the topic, The Future is Now!

Simon Fraser University joins the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

SFU is the latest signatory to the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity, COPE.

Happy Open Access Week!

Happy Open Access Week from and to all OA Librarians! Still scrambling to finalize plans? Don't forget to check out the OA Week Ning, or check the Open Access Directory page to see what others or doing - or add a link to your own event!

SPARC Open Access Week Webcast with Nobel prize winner

Free webcast, to schedule with your OA Week activities at your convenience, will be available under embargo as of October 14 - for details, see Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

October 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the October 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Peter's 150th). Highlighted this month: Peter's own experiences with self-archiving.

OASPA 2010 Videos Available

Videos of the presentations at the 2nd annual conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers' Association are now available.

Joint Open Letter to International Publishers

Open letter from the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences to STM publishers regarding year-over-year double-digit price increases, completing ignoring the current status of China as a developing country.

September 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the September 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlight this month: Discovery, rediscovery, and open access. Part 2.

Dorothea Salo's call for open discourse

recommended reading on the Book of Trogool

Discovery, rediscovery, and open access

Peter Suber has just released the August 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: discovery, rediscovery, and open access. Starts with: In 1979, William Garvey made a remarkable claim: " ... in some disciplines, it is easier to repeat an experiment than it is to determine that the experiment has already been done."

U.N. support for open access

Renata's Digtial Library Review

New blog, open access to reviews of open access resources - what a good idea!

July 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the July 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: California vs. Nature.

Registration open for November SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting

Changing Role of Libraries: Journal Hosting and Support (ARL ACRL Scholarly Communication Institute)

There is still time to register for the June 15th session of the ARL ACRL Scholarly Communication Institute webinar series, Changing Role of Libraries: Journal Hosting and Support. Speakers Caroline Sutton, David Solomon, Maria Bonn and Catherine Mitchell will address topics of relevance to libraries at all stages in this new area of service, from those actively engaged in this service area, to those developing or considering this service area. Each session provides opportunities to engage in discussion with speakers and with other participants. [Disclosure: Julie Garrison & I are co-coordinating this series].

June 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber has just released the June 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: unanimous faculty OA votes.

Open Access Policies in Europe: David Prosser article

Enabling Open Scholarship has just released David Prosser's Open Access Policies in Europe. This succinct overview by one of open access' most noteworthy champions is a must-read for anyone involved in OA policy development or advocacy.

Canadian action item: help vote up OA to Canadian Research in Canada's Digital Economy Consultation

Please register for Canada's Digital Economy Consultation and vote for Open Access to Canadian Research under Canada's Digital Content. Currently OA is at 8 votes, just 2 behind the lead suggestion in this section of the Ideas Forum.

OA-related items from the Alberta Library Conference

Two OA-related items came out of the Alberta Library Conference (ALC) that was held in Jasper, AB, April 29-May 2, 2010 (http://www.albertalibraryconference.com/)

First, at the AGM, the Library Association of Alberta (LAA) voted to investigate setting up an OA policy for the organization. This would follow what other Canadian library associations, such as the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) and the Canadian Library Association (CLA), have done. In addition, LAA has already taken actions in terms of OA e.g. the LAA newsletter, the Letter of the LAA, is available as a delayed OA publication (http://www.laa.ca/page/letter%20of%20the%20laa%20archives.aspx).

(Disclosure: I moved the motion to investigate setting up an OA Policy.)

Second, the theme for ALC 2011 was announced and it includes an OA component. The theme will be "Open doors, open minds, open access".