The SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) is a newsletter written by Peter Suber and offering news and analysis of the open access movement —the worldwide movement to disseminate scientific and scholarly research literature online, free of charge, and free of unnecessary licensing restrictions. SOAN was launched in July 2003 to continue Peter's Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter (March 2001 - September 2002). Only the title changed to reflect the role of SPARC in sponsoring and publishing it. SOAN shifted from monthly to quarterly in September 2011. Peter's views in SOAN are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of SPARC. 

The SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF) is a discussion forum moderated by Stacie Lemick. Subscribers are invited to post questions, comments, and conversation about the open access movement, broadly conceived. In addition to these discussion postings, the forum also welcomes relevant postings from other lists, press releases, calls for papers, announcements, and other documents of interest to the OA community.

Subscriptions to the newsletter and the forum are free of charge. Subscribers to the Forum will receive email updates regularly. Subscribers to the Newsletter will receive one email per issue. Both the newsletter and forum are available in OA archives online for those who don't wish to subscribe.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter:

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To read and search back issues:

For all SOAN issues, see Peter Suber's version of the archive. For SOAN issues from August 2, 2011 to the present, see the Google Group version of the archive. For SOAN issues from March 28, 2001, to July 2, 2011, see the ARL version of the archive.

All archives are OA and accessible by non-subscribers.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the SPARC Open Access Forum:

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To read and search previous postings:

To read SOAF posts from August 2, 2011 to the present, see the Google Group version of the archive. To read posts from June 18, 2003, to July 29, 2011, see the ARL version of the archive. To read posts from June 12, 2001, to June 18, 2003, the TOPICA version of the archive, which includes postings from the older FOS Forum, the discussion list associated with the FOS Newsletter.

All archives are OA and accessible by non-subscribers.