202.296.2296 x157
heather [at] arl.org
Heather Joseph joined SPARC as director in July 2005. Heather is responsible for SPARC’s overall program development. She determines and implements SPARC goals; leads SPARC’s advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research; identifies and negotiates partnerships with scholarly publishers; builds coalitions of support; and generally represents the interests and values of SPARC to the stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Before coming to SPARC, the culmination of Heather’s career in scholarly publishing was serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, a SPARC publisher partner. Under her leadership, BioOne focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena, while maintaining academy friendly access policies. For her work in successfully launching and establishing BioOne, Heather was awarded the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing. She also served as elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing for the 2004–2005 term.
Select publications:
- Joseph, Heather. Open Access: The “New Normal?” (2009) [Presentation in PDF format - 4.1MB]
- Joseph, Heather. SPARC and the NIH Public Access Policy: From Advocacy to Implementation. (2008) [Presentation in PDF format - 716KB]
- Joseph, Heather. SPARC and Open Access: Enabling Access, Enabling Scholarship. (2008) [Presentation in PDF format - 1.8MB]
- Joseph, Heather. From Advocacy to Implementation: The NIH Public Access Policy and Its Impact. Vol. 48(2) 2008 pps. 207-217. The Journal of Library Administration.
- Page, Mary and Bonnie Parks. Serial Conversations: An Interview with Heather Joseph. Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2008 pp. 154-157. Serials Review.
- Joseph, Heather. A Question of Access - Evolving Policies and Practices. Vol. 48, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 95-106. Haworth Press.
- English, Ray and Heather Joseph. C&RL News, Vol. 69, No. 2 (February 2008).
- Joseph, Heather. A Question of Access - Evolving Policies and Practices. Haworth Press. (May 2007).
- Joseph, Heather. Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-5. Johns Hopkins University Press. (January 2007).
- Joseph, Heather. C&RL News, Vol. 67, No. 2 (February 2006).
- Joseph, Heather. SPARC Futures. UBC Library and SLAIS Distinguished Lecture. (February 2006) [Presentation in PDF format - 872KB]
- Joseph, Heather. Return to Tempe II: Scholarly Communication and the Future of Research Libraries. GWLA Provost Meeting, Tempe, AZ (February 2006) [Presentation in PDF format - 416KB]
- Joseph, Heather. Open Access and Institutional Repositories. eIFL General Assembly 2005 (Vilnius, Lithuania). (October 2005) [Presentation in PDF format - 720KB]
- Joseph, Heather. The Open Access Movement: Initiatives. 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries (Salvador, Brazil). (September 2005) [Presentation in PDF format - 740K]
View SPARC Publications for a complete list of presentations, papers, guides, articles, and podcasts from SPARC.
