Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
SPARC's efforts can be broken down into three broad categories:
- Incubation of competitive alternatives to current high-priced commercial journals and digital aggregations
- SPARC Partners and it's three partner programs:
- Public advocacy of fundamental changes in the system and the culture of scholarly communication
- Education campaigns aimed at enhancing awareness of scholarly communication issues and supporting expanded institutional and scholarly community roles in and control over the scholarly communication process
- Declaring Independence, a guide to creating community-controlled science journals
- Gaining Independence, a manual for planning the launch of a nonprofit electronic publishing venture
- Create Change, a resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication
- Alternative Publishing Options
- SPARC Institutional Repositories information and Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide
- Publishing Resources for Journals and Repositories
Send Questions or Comments to: scinfo@u.washington.edu
Last modified: Monday March 15, 2004