rick [at] arl [dot] org

SPARC’s founding Executive Director, Rick Johnson, now consults with SPARC on its public policy agenda. As a Senior Advisor to the coalition, he is building on efforts he began as SPARC’s director, including advocacy for open access to government-funded scientific research.

Select publications:

• In Google’s Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions, Feb. 2007 (250): pp. 1-15.
• Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet? The Journal of Neuroscience, Sep. 13, 2006, 26(37): pp. 9349-9351.
• Additional publications are available in the E-LIS open archive.

Select presentations:

• SPARC: Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication. Fifteenth Jubilee International Confrerence, Sudak, Crimea (June 2008).
  [Presentation in PDF format - 1.8MB]
• Four forces that are transforming scientific communication. CESSE 2006, Salt Lake City (July 2006).
  [Presentation in PDF format - 1.7MB]
• Open Access: The Policy Imperative. South Atlantic Regional Conference in Association with SLA, Williamsburg, VA (September 2005)
  [Presentation in PDF format - 1.6MB]
• Open Access: Unlocking the Value of Scientific Research. Presented at The New Challenge for Research Libraries: Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources Conference (preprint), University of Oklahoma Libraries. (March 2004)
  [Presentation in PDF format - 116KB]

View SPARC Publications for a complete list of presentations, papers, guides, articles, and podcasts from SPARC.