Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #153 January 2, 2011 by Peter Suber Read this issue online http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-11.htm Contents Open access in 2010 Roundup Coming this month Housekeeping Credits ---------- SOAN is published and sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ---------- Open

Flip Tanedo, Who will pay for the arXiv?, US LHC Blog, December 29, 2009. ... [W]ith increasing costs and the state of university budgets, the Cornell University Library (which operates the arXiv) is looking to find more cost-effective ways to support the arXiv and the much-needed overhauls in the software architecture (”arXiteXture”?). ... Currently the Cornell library pays the $400,000/year oper

Fiona Godlee, We want raw data, now, BMJ, December 10, 2009. This week’s BMJ is dominated by a cluster of articles on oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Between them the articles conclude that the evidence that oseltamivir reduces complications in otherwise healthy people with pandemic influenza is now uncertain and that we need a radical change in the rules on access to trial data. ... Only after questions w

A few days ago, PLoS Medicine posted an announcement that, as part of celebrations for the journal's 5th anniversary, it was holding a contest for best OA article in medicine from the past 5 years, with a list of nominees. Today, the original announcement had been pulled and this update was posted on the journal's blog: Susan Jones, PLoS Medicine’s 5th anniversary competition – update, Speaking of