Monday, June 04, 2007

Latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter - balancing author and publisher rights

The June issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter "takes a close look at attempts to balance author and publisher rights, primarily in the "author addenda" from CIC, SPARC, and Science Commons, and in the position paper by the ALPSP, AAP/PSP, and STM. The round-up section briefly notes 99 OA developments from May."

As for all those acronyms:
CIC - Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a OA-friendly consortium of 12 research universities
SPARC - Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Constortium
ALPSP - Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
AAP/PSP - Association of American Publishers / Professional/Scholarly Publishing
STM - International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers

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The current and back issues can be found at:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm

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