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• SPARC to Support BioMed Central's Alternative Business Models for Online Journals
• University Newsletter report on our Creating Change event and the launch of the ePrints service on 9th April
• SPARC Debuts Gaining Independence: Web Resource Guides Launch Of Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Ventures
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative
• Boost for research paper access

Further reading

The Scholarly Communications Crisis

Statement from Consortium of University Research Libraries

The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting

The Searcher, Vol. 10 No. 1 — January 2002

Reclaiming What We Own: Expanding Competition in Scholarly Publishing

M L Rosenzweig, Plenary address to the Ninth Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries; Detroit, Michigan, 11 April, 1999

Who Owns scientific papers?

Bachrach et al., Science,  281 (5382): 1459

Declaring Independence

A.Buckholtz, ARL Bimonthly Report 214, February 2001

Newsletters

The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter

How the Internet is Transforming Scholarly Research and Publication

Websites

Coalition for networked information (CNI)

CNI is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

Create Change

A resource for faculty and librarian: action to reclaim scholarly communication.

Electronic Society for Social Scientists (ELSS)

ELSSS, the ELectronic Society for Social Scientists, is a new, non-profit-making society, whose mission is to improve scientific communication in the social sciences, especially by the provision of electronic publications of high quality, wide diffusion and low cost for the direct benefit of the academic community.

Journals Cost Update

Yale University

Public Library of Science proposal

The Public Library of Science is a non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world, for the benefit of scientific progress, education and the public good.

Nature Debates: Future e-access to the primary literature

Forum for discussion of the impact of the web on the publishing of original research

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Initiatives

University of California Davis

SPARC

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition