<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>* Announcement (cross-posted) *</div><div><br></div><div>I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at the advantages of free *offline* access, even if free *online* access will always be more useful to most people most of the time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The roundup section briefly notes 138 OA developments from April, and looking-back sections reprint short excerpts from SOAN five and ten years ago this month. </div><div><br></div><div>May 2011 issue</div>
<div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-11.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-11.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan">http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan</a></div><div><br></div><div>The current and back issues are all open access, of course.</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>Peter</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Suber</div><div>Senior Researcher, SPARC</div><div>Berkman Fellow, Harvard University</div><div>Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College</div>
<div>Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/</a></div><div><br></div></font></font>