Recreating publishing for the engineering and scientific community: the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Author

Case, Mary M.

Author_Institution

Assoc. of Res. Libr., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

23-25 Apr 1998

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

75

Abstract

Journal publishing in science, technology, and medicine has become too costly for the educational community to support. Commercial publishers intent on maximizing profits through aggressive pricing strategies, consolidation, and protection of intellectual property, are threatening the educational community´s long term access to research and scholarship. As one strategy in counteracting these trends, the Association of Research Libraries has initiated a project intended to support alternatives in the journals marketplace. SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, seeks to partner with other educational and research organizations to stimulate additional prestigious and affordable outlets for the best faculty work

Keywords

educational administrative data processing; electronic publishing; engineering computing; natural sciences computing; professional communication; research libraries; Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition; affordable outlets; aggressive pricing strategies; commercial publishers; educational community; engineering; faculty work; intellectual property; journal publishing; journals marketplace; long term access; research organizations; scholarship; scientific community; Back; Costs; Educational technology; Intellectual property; Libraries; Marine vehicles; Pricing; Protection; Publishing; Systems engineering education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop, 1998. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5101-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEDEP.1998.730711

Filename

730711