SPARC announces November digital repositories meeting

For immediate release
April 7, 2008

For more information:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296
jenniferarl.org

SPARC ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER DIGITAL REPOSITORIES MEETING
Organizers put out call for presentation proposals

Washington, DC =AD April 7, 2008 =AD SPARC, in partnership
with SPARC=20
Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of
Informatics,=20
announces the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, to be
held=20
November 17-18, 2008 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
in=20
Baltimore, Maryland.

Coming on the heels of two groundbreaking developments - a
recent=20
vote by Harvard=B9s Faculty of Arts and Sciences enabling
the=20
university to offer access to their articles in an
institutional=20
repository and implementation of a new National Institutes
of=20
Health public access policy - the meeting will enable=20
stakeholders to explore next steps for the burgeoning
open=20
archiving movement.

Librarians, researchers, funders, administrators,
government=20
officials, publishers, and technologists from around the
world=20
will share their experiences and best practices in building
and=20
supporting institutional and disciplinary digital
repositories.=20
The focus will be on effective engagement with scholars
and=20
scientists to expand the sharing of research outputs via
open=20
repositories.

The program, developed by a diverse and expert program
committee,=20
will delve into four key areas: The Policy Environment,
New=20
Horizons, Campus Publishing Strategies, and Value-Added
Services.=20
These tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation Fair,
where=20
new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be
highlighted,=20
and a Practicum on marketing and advocacy.

The program committee invites proposals for presentations at
the=20
November meeting. Visit the conference Web site at=20
http://www.arl.org/spa
rc/ir08/ for details on the program and how=20
to submit a proposal. The deadline for submissions is May
30,=20
2008.

Members of the 2008 Program Committee include: Jun Adachi
(SPARC=20
Japan), Raym Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell
College),=20
Susan Gibbons (University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann
(Open=20
Society Institute), Karla Hahn (Association of Research=20
Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA), Rick Johnson (SPARC),
Michelle=20
Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert Lossau (Goettingen
State and=20
University Library and DRIVER), Joyce Ogburn (University
of=20
Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland, College
Park),=20
Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research
Libraries),=20
Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas
(Massachusetts=20
Institute of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and
Charles=20
Watkinson (The American School of Classical Studies at
Athens).

This is the first North American SPARC digital
repositories=20
conference since the organization=B9s popular 2004 meeting,
which=20
drew hundreds of participants from around the globe and set
the=20
stage for some of the key developments of the past four
years.

Registration will open in May. For more information, visit
the=20
conference Web site at http://ww
w.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/.=20
Companies or organizations interested in conference
sponsorship=20
opportunities should contact Jennifer McLennan at=20
jenniferarl.org.

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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition),=20
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international
alliance=20
of more than 800 academic and research libraries working
to=20
create a more open system of scholarly communication.
SPARC's=20
advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs=20
encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on
the Web=20
at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

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