Archived presentation from Heather Joseph, SPARC

[Andrew Waller <waller@ucalgary.ca>]

Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly 
Publishing and Research Coalition) has just self-archived a copy 
of her presentation, SPARC Futures:  An Evolving Agenda, in 
E-LIS, at: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005838/

Abstract:

Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly 
Publishing and Research Program) briefly describes SPARC, its 
mission - to advance a more open system of scholarship by 
reducing barriers to access, sharing, and use of scholarship, and 
the current SPARC focus on Open Access. The SPARC open access 
vision is one of scholarly communication in the networked digital 
environment that eliminates toll barriers, maximizes potential 
usage, more fully realizes the value of research, and addresses 
dysfunction in the legacy system. It is emphasised that open 
access is an access model, not a business model. Current SPARC 
activities are highlighted.

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Andrew Waller
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library
<mailto:waller@ucalgary.ca>