Why Open Data Matters: G-8 and African Nations Increase Open Data for Food Security

Wayne Maloney, Office of Communications, USDA, May 8, 2013 Read More…

Peter Suber to Direct Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication

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Elsevier distances itself from open-access article

Times Higher Education, Paul Jump, May 22, 2013 Read More…

Biss' open access legislation passes House

Katharine Eastvold, May 16, 2013 Read More…

SPARC provides comments on OSTP Memorandum on Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Articles

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UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

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Open-access scientific publishing

The Economist, May 10, 2013 Read More…

Education democratization

The Daily Californian, Editorial, May 13, 2013 CAMPUS ISSUES: The university needs to ensure academic research is openly accessible to members of the general public regardless of status. Read More…

California Open Access Bill Clears Committee

Library Journal, Meredith Schwartz, May 9, 2013 Read More…

California Weighs Its Own Open Access Plan

Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed Read More…

New York considers state-level public access legislation

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Illinois considers state-level public access policy

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Call to Action: Support the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609)

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New SPARC Community Resource on Article-Level Metrics

By Greg Tananbaum Today, SPARC released a new community resource delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used.  Read More…

PeerJ launches PeerJ PrePrints -- a 'preprint server' for the biological and medical sciences

April 3, 2013. Read More…

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