In the October issue of the ACRL College & Research Libraries News, Rick Johnson describes the history of SPARC and ACRL collaboration to reform scholarly communication (e.g. the CreateChange web site), and sketches where SPARC plans to go in the future. Much of its future activity will be devoted to the "open access opportunity" laid out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which SPARC helped to draft and which the ARCL board endorsed at its June 2002 meeting. Johnson is the director of SPARC.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/18/2002 06:18:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
