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May 15, 2012
Big Government Stifles Biomedical Research
Rahul Rekhi, PolicyMic, May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012
12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Registration
Don't forget to register and book your hotel room for the 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). JCDL 2012, this year's premiere international conference on all things related to digital libraries, is only a month away. The program is loaded with a rich corpus of papers, posters, and demonstrations, and the conference is open to all. More information is available from the conference website, including links to the registration form, hotel reservations pages, travel tips, and a full schedule of events.
May 14, 2012
What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast
The panel, moderated by World Bank Publisher Carlos Rossel, will answer these questions and address the challenges, successes, pitfalls and benefits other institutions experienced when they made similar game-changing decisions.
 
Featuring:
 
Peter Suber - Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and a leading voice in the open access movement
Michael Carroll - American University law professor and founding board member of Creative Commons
Cyril Muller - Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank
Adam Wagstaff - Research Manager of the World Bank's Development Research Group.
May 10, 2012
The Future of Science
Richard Price, TechCrunch, April 29, 2012
May 10, 2012
Versita Launches Largest ever Open Access Journal Program
Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program's focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The emerging topics have been identified in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics.
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SPARC Innovator, January 2012:
Michael Nielsen

Upcoming Events

May 15, 2012
12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Registration
Don't forget to register and book your hotel room for the 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). JCDL 2012, this year's premiere international conference on all things related to digital libraries, is only a month away. The program is loaded with a rich corpus of papers, posters, and demonstrations, and the conference is open to all. More information is available from the conference website, including links to the registration form, hotel reservations pages, travel tips, and a full schedule of events.
May 14, 2012
What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast
The panel, moderated by World Bank Publisher Carlos Rossel, will answer these questions and address the challenges, successes, pitfalls and benefits other institutions experienced when they made similar game-changing decisions.
 
Featuring:
 
Peter Suber - Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and a leading voice in the open access movement
Michael Carroll - American University law professor and founding board member of Creative Commons
Cyril Muller - Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank
Adam Wagstaff - Research Manager of the World Bank's Development Research Group.
May 9, 2012
Save the date: June 23, SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA in Anaheim
The next  SPARC-ACRL Forum, "Campus Open Access Funds: The State of Play" will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, on Saturday, June 23rd, from 4:00-5:30pm in the Grand Ballroom South at the Disneyland Hotel. Co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries), the popular semi-annual forum focuses on emerging issues in scholarly communication. 
March 21, 2012
Webcast Invitation: Article level metrics with Peter Binfield April 12, 2012
On April 12, please join us as we host Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS One, for an
in-depth look at the the current status of Article Level Metrics, a discussion of what 
has been learned to date, and a glimpse into what is on the horizon for their further 
development and wider adoption. 
March 20, 2012
2012 UNT Symposium on Open Access
Symposium on Open Access and Research Data Management will take place on May 21, 2012 and will feature Myron Gutmann of NSF as keynote