Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the first public U.S. university to adopt a campus-wide open-access mandate, will be the feature speaker in the opening ceremony of the SPARC Open Access meeting this Spring. The meeting, which will showcase thought-leaders, publishers, faculty, technologists, and librarians – announced today – is expected to draw attention from policy makers on campus, as well as at the federal and international levels. The event is set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 12 & 13, 2012.
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January 31, 2011
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Washington, DC – Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the first public U.S. university to adopt a campus-wide open-access mandate, the University of Kansas (KU), will be the feature speaker in the opening ceremony of the SPARC Open Access meeting this Spring. The meeting, which will showcase thought-leaders, publishers, faculty, technologists, and librarians – announced today – is expected to draw attention from policy makers on campus, as well as at the federal and international levels. The event is set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 12 & 13, 2012.
The SPARC Open Access meeting expands on the popular SPARC Digital Repositories meetings, hosted biennially since 2004, and will provide a North American-based complement to the popular “Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI)” workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland in alternating years. The SPARC meeting will be a regular forum for a full discussion of Open Access as an emerging norm in research and scholarship, and will emphasize “Collaborative strategies for advancing scholarship,” for all stakeholders to help effect positive change.
Presenters will examine recent developments and track key trends in the growth of open-access practices and policies across four areas: National and institutional policy adoption, digital repositories, author rights, and open-access publishing. John Wilbanks, Fellow of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and recent Vice President of Science at Creative Commons, will offer a keynote on the intersection of open movements. Other featured speakers include:
The full program and additional background on the speakers are available on the meeting Web site.
The SPARC Open Access Meeting is generously supported by: @mire, Microsoft Research, Symplectic, ePrints, Wiley Open Access, Association of College and Research Libraries, Boston Library Consortium, Co-action Publishing, Confederation of Open-access Repositories, Copernicus Publications, Duraspace, Greater Western Library Association, Longsight, and the Northeastern Research Library Consortium. Information on sponsorship opportunities is available at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12/oa12-sponsor.
Register now through http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=94. On-site rates apply March 5, 2012.
Hotel reservations are available for the conference rate of $139 per night and must be made by February 17, 2012.
For more information, visit the meeting Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12.
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SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a library membership organization that promotes expanded sharing of scholarship. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of outputs of the research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC is supported by a membership of over 800 academic and research libraries worldwide. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc