For immediate release
December 4, 2013
For more information, contact:
Stacie Lemick
stacie [at] arl [dot] org
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Call for proposals: SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair
Washington, DC – Proposals are now being invited for the SPARC 2014 Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies will be showcased in engaging, informative, rapid-fire presentations. The Innovation Fair is a highlight to the regular SPARC meeting, now set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 3 & 4, 2014.
The SPARC Open Access meeting expands on the popular SPARC Digital Repositories meetings, hosted biennially since 2004, and will provide a North American-based complement to the popular “Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI)” workshop held in Geneva in alternating years. The SPARC meeting will be a regular forum for a full discussion of Open Access as an emerging norm in research and scholarship, and will emphasize collaborative actions that stakeholders can take to effect positive change.
The Innovation Fair invites participants – librarians, technologists, research producers, research funders, publishers, and others – to present, in no more than two minutes, innovative or creative approaches to: use of open content, content discovery, value-added services, impact assessment, commercial and other innovation using open resources, and Open Access advocacy.
For details and to submit a proposal, visit http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=104 Submissions must be received no later than January 17, 2014 (updated January 8, 2014).
The Innovation Fair will be held Monday, March 3, in conjunction with the conference-wide reception. Registration for the meeting is required to attend.
Register now. Early bird rates start at $279 for SPARC members and expire January 17, 2014 (updated January 8, 2014).
Hotel reservations are available for the conference rate of $144 per night and must be made by February 6, 2014.
Sponsorships are available.
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a library membership organization that promotes expanded sharing of scholarship. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of outputs of the research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC is supported by a membership of over 800 academic and research libraries worldwide. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc
