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style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">SPARC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">1998<span class="noprint">; 26 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Focus</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Open_access_publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access publishing">Open access publishing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Heather_Joseph" title="Heather Joseph">Heather Joseph</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiaries</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Alliance for Taxpayer Access<br />Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data">SPARC Europe<br />SPARC Japan<br />SPARC Africa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sparcopen.org">sparcopen.org</a></span><br /><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sparceurope.org">sparceurope.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition</b> (<b>SPARC</b>) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Research_Libraries" title="Association of Research Libraries">Association of Research Libraries</a> in 1998 which promotes <a href="/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access (publishing)">open access</a> to scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-brown2008_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brown2008-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The coalition currently includes some 800 institutions<sup id="cite_ref-brown2008_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brown2008-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. </p><p>Richard Johnson served as director 1998–2005.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Heather_Joseph" title="Heather Joseph">Heather Joseph</a> became <a href="/wiki/Executive_director" title="Executive director">executive director</a> in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarly_Publishing_and_Academic_Resources_Coalition&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/220px--Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="93" data-mwtitle="Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv/Access_2_research_video_by_SPARC.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>A video released by SPARC in support of <a href="/wiki/Access2Research" title="Access2Research">Access2Research</a>, a 2012 petition for <a href="/wiki/Open-access_mandate" title="Open-access mandate">open-access mandates</a> in the USA.</figcaption></figure> <p>The idea of SPARC was presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Research_Libraries" title="Association of Research Libraries">Association of Research Libraries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groen_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kenneth Frazier,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> librarian at the University of Wisconsin, proposed that attendees at the meeting develop a fund to create a new publication model for academic journals wherein many libraries contributed to that fund, and from that fund, the contributors would create new publications on some model which lowered the costs of all journals.<sup id="cite_ref-groen_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As founding director, Rick Johnson led the establishment of SPARC in 2002 as a result of so many librarians expressing the desire for reform.<sup id="cite_ref-groen_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SPARC_Europe_logo_2018.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/SPARC_Europe_logo_2018.png" decoding="async" width="173" height="82" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="173" data-file-height="82" /></a><figcaption>Logo of SPARC Europe</figcaption></figure> <p>SPARC Europe was established with <a href="/wiki/Ligue_des_Biblioth%C3%A8ques_Europ%C3%A9ennes_de_Recherche" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche">LIBER</a> in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Prosser became director in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting in 2006 the SPARC Innovators Award has been given semi-annually to recognize an individual, institution, or group exemplifying SPARC principles.<sup id="cite_ref-2007-06-SPARC_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2007-06-SPARC-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>SPARC has established itself as an international alliance of academic and research libraries working "to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system". Its focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – builds on the opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. Leading academic organizations have endorsed SPARC. <i>SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals</i> offers certification for journals choosing the CC-BY license (<a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a>) and provide the <a href="/wiki/Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals" title="Directory of Open Access Journals">Directory of Open Access Journals</a> (DOAJ) with <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> on article level.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SPARC_Author_Addendum">SPARC Author Addendum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarly_Publishing_and_Academic_Resources_Coalition&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: SPARC Author Addendum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> SPARC publishes an addendum which authors may use to negotiate with academic publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The form provides a templated request by authors to add to the <a href="/wiki/Copyright_transfer_agreement" title="Copyright transfer agreement">copyright transfer agreement</a> which the publisher sends to the author upon acceptance of their work for publication. 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Open_Access_Scholarly_Publishers_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association">Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</a>, of which SPARC Europe is a founding member</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Access" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Access">Open Access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_educational_resources_policy" title="Open educational resources policy">Open educational resources policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_publishing" title="Library publishing">Library publishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_access_in_India" title="Open access in India">Open Access Movement in India</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarly_Publishing_and_Academic_Resources_Coalition&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit 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Kirkpatrick">David D. 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