The following is a quick list of events and meetings in which SPARC is participating. Please follow the links to meetings that are open to registration or click to view our materials when they are posted.

If there’s an opportunity for SPARC to speak to your group, please contact Jennifer McLennan.

May 15, 2008

CARL Annual Meeting
Kingston, Ontario
“Improving the Dissemination of Research Outputs”

May 26, 2008
The Open Access  Documentary Project
New York City, New York
“SPARC and the Open Access Movement

June 9-10, 2008
The Crimea Conference, “Libraries and Information Resources
in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business”
Sudak, Crimea
“SPARC and the Open Access Movement” (RJ)

June 25, 2008
Preconference Workshop - ELPUB 2008
Toronto, Ontario
“Opening Scholarship: Strategies for Integrating Open Access and Open Education”

June 27, 2008
Closing Plenary Session, ELPUB 2008
Toronto, Ontario
“Research Access Policies”

June 28, 2008
SPARC/ACRL/ALCTS Forum
Anaheim, CA
“Campus Open Access Policies: The Harvard Experience and How to Get There”

July 16-17, 2008
Euroscience Open Forum
SPARC/Science Commons Satellite Session
“Policy and Technology for E-Science”
Barcelona, Spain

This workshop is sponsored by Science Commons - a project of Creative Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

This event follows up on the Commons of Science Conference organized by Science Commons in 2006. The first event was held in Washington DC, at the National Academies of Science Keck Center, and focused largely on US-based commons efforts in the sciences. This satellite event will continue the conversation first started in 2006, looking at commons efforts in Europe and the infrastructure needed to do meaningful e-science. These Conferences aim at bringing together a diverse audience of scientists, policy makers, and commons advocates who are actively interested in designing ways to make access to scientific knowledge more widely available and more transparent across all scientific disciplines.

August 15, 2008
Utah Academic Library Consortia Retreat
“Scholarly Communication and the Library”
Salt Lake City, Utah