Posts from — July 2009

Good news! The new SPARC t-shirts are now available. We’ve produced four fairly basic tees: one for author rights, two for Open Access, and a third for SPARC. We’ve set prices as low as we can to try and recover cost so we can make even more. If they’re a hit, we’ll produce more in different colors. Please let me know what you think.

They’re not on the Web site yet, so you’re the first to hear. Order now!

If you have any questions contact Jennifer McLennan at Jennifer@arl.org.

Specify the item code for the design you like and the size, then send your order details to the ARL/SPARC distribution center by:

1) Emailing <arl@brightkey.net>
2) Phoning (301) 362-8196
3) Using our Web order form. Either submit the form via the Web or print it and fax or mail the completed form using the contact information below. (**Please be aware that this is not a secure server so any credit card information you submit using the Web form will not be encrypted.**)
4) Sending order information and prepayment in U.S. funds to:

ARL Publications Distribution Center
P.O. Box 531
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0531
Phone: 301-362-8196
Fax: 301-206-9789
E-mail: pubs@arl.org
Visa and MasterCard are accepted.
Federal ID number: 52-0784198-N.

item code,    SPARC member price (each),    non-member price (each)

• OATEE    Open Access (orange)    $6.00    $10.00
• OATEEG Open Access (grey)     $6.00    $10.00
• SPTEE    SPARC (red)    $6.00    $10.00
• GRTEE    Got rights (blue)    $6.00    $10.00

Please specify size (S, M, L, XL)
International -  the chart below is given in inches.

Here’s a video in Spanish from a talk entitled “Open Access: Role and Importance”, given at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Chile on the May 27th 2009. Enjoy.

This post was written by The Alliance of German Science Organisations’ Open Access Working Group. The guest authors were:  Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Heinz Pampel and Rubina Vock.

The Alliance of German Science Organisations’ Open Access Working Group and the project partners of the information platform open-access.net support the broad participation of German science institutions in international Open Access Week.

The coordinating committee with representatives of the working group and open-access.net encourages scientific and scholarly organisations in Germany to take part in Open Access Week to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access among scholars and scientists. It is the aim of this group to support scientific and scholarly organisations with planning educational materials and events at their institutions within the framework of international Open Access Week in Germany.

The German Library Congress 2009 (the largest librarians meeting in Germany) offered us the chance to approach and inform over 3000 participants about Open Access Week. This meeting was instrumental in providing us with an opportunity to meet key players and allowed us to present the international Open Access Week and (possible) German contributions.

Our exhibit booth, located at a prominent corner of the fair hall, had been set up nicely with customized posters from Open Access Week. We displayed customized slides on Open Access Week, a poster from the information platform open-access.net and provided informational materials on different German open access projects.

Photo courtesy of Rubina Vock.

One highlight that also attracted many random visitors were the Open Access buttons (or perhaps it was the fresh and juicy strawberries that we also offered!).

Photo courtesy of Heinz Pampel.

It was impressive to see how more and more participants of the congress wore a button! Many participants of the congress got in contact with the representatives of the coordinating committee - questions varied from the general principles of open access publishing to support requests as well as requests for materials.

The whole activity was considered a great success not only because of the overwhelming response by the congress participants, but also by the many institutions willing to support and participate in Open Access Week.

Downloadable customized German and international materials - will be made available on the information platform open access.net. Moreover, all German institutions are invited to enhance their public visibility and publicise their activities and events at Open Access Week by registering with the information platform open-access.net.

We are pleased to add a new Partner to the list for OA Week.  Keita Bando of My Open Archive is now working with us in Japan.

Keita has created a Japanese Open Access Week site that provides translations for the this site and will be keeping you updated  up to date on all the events scheduled in Japan.  Keita translates English entries into Japanese and vice versa,  he then posts links to them on this site in the comments section of posts on this site.

Thank you Keita for all your good work!

We are pleased to announce that The home-field advantage: A report on OA Day events at Duke webcast recording is now available.