Spring-Summer 2005 - Volume 11 - Number 1
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Faculty Forum: Scholarly Communication in the Internet Age
by Maggie Dwyer
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In a program intended to help the university community recognize the growing crisis
in scholarly communication, in which commercial publishers have turned the scholarly
communication process into “a multi-billion dollar business,” the Libraries hosted a
brown bag lunch on March 9, 2005. The invited speaker was Rick Johnson, director of
the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
Johnson, who joined
SPARC in 1998, is responsible for the organization’s overall
program development. SPARC was conceived by the
Association of Research Libraries,
which is an alliance of organizations and research and academic libraries, all working
to “correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system.” The goal is to
nurture the networked environment as a way to disseminate research by expanded
competition and open access to scholarly research. (Johnson recently announced his
departure from the organization, but the agency work continues.) For more information about the talk and the slide program presented,
visit http://library.uta.edu/programsEvents/scomm/scomm.jsp Visit SPARC