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Explore the latest trends in scholarly communication, including article-level metrics, new publishing services, peer review innovations, and social networking for academia. Learn about the push for open access and the impact on research dissemination. Discover how technology is reshaping the landscape of academic publishing.
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Emerging Trends in Scholarly Communication Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC ALA Midwinter Meeting Philadelphia, PA January 26, 2014
Our Mission: Expand the distribution of the results of research and scholarship in a way that leverages digital networked technology, reduces financial pressures on libraries, and creates a more open system of scholarly communication.
“By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative – February 14, 2002 www.arl.org/sparc
Impact Range = 36%-200% (Data: StevanHarnad and co-workers)
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing
FEDERATION www.arl.org/sparc …exist alongside traditional publishing