Past SPARC Events
Below you can find an archive of previous SPARC events. Click here to view upcoming SPARC events.
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May 24: History of College Textbook Prices: Examining Past Practices and Emerging Models (InclusiveAccess.org)
3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT · Free Webcast Open EducationWebcast organized by InclusiveAccess.org on the history of how high textbook prices evolved, how the market is changing, and how higher education leaders can apply lessons from the past to the future.
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May 24: Citation Justice and Reflections on Knowledge Equity
1-2p ET | 10-11a PT · WebcastIn conversation with Stacy Allison-Cassin, Leslie Chan will reflect on his years of working to advance open access and scholarly communication, his learning (and unlearning) in relation to knowledge equity, and as the demand for data, scholarly analytics and metrics grows, the urgent need to focus on citation practices in relation to justice.
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May 19: Resisting Colonial Validation: A Look At Issues of Evidence in Courts
1-2p ET | 10-11a PT · WebcastIn this session, we will focus on the Anishinaabe oral tradition of the 1764 Treaty of Niagara and contrast that understanding with the Crown's position about that same agreement. Differences of understanding and interpretation will be highlighted to show the differences between Anishinaabe and Western epistemology, methodology and historiography. This session will be reflective of Dr. Alan Corbiere's experience during the Robinson Huron Annuity Litigation in which he served as an expert witness.
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May 17: COAPI Community Call: How to Successfully Promote Open Access as a Department of One?
1p-2p ET/10a-11a PT · VirtualCOAPI invites you to participate in their next Community Call.
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May 17: Inequities of Article Processing Charges: How the Oligopoly of Academic Publishers Profits from Open Access
1-2p ET | 10-11a PT · Webcast Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSince the early 2010s, more than half of peer-reviewed journal articles have been published by the so-called oligopoly of academic publishers: Elsevier, SAGE, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. These companies make immense profits from publishing scholarly journals, traditionally through subscriptions from academic libraries, the reader pays model. With more and more libraries cancelling so-called ‘Big Deals’, these publishers have expanded their revenues by making authors pay article processing charges (APCs) for open access (OA) publishing. The author-pays model creates inequities and barriers that exclude many from publishing, such as underrepresented groups or researchers from less-resourced countries. This presentation demonstrates the growth of gold and hybrid OA articles published in oligopoly journals indexed in the Web of Science and provides evidence of the amount of APCs paid in Canada and globally. It highlights the inequities of the author-pays model and discusses alternative routes to OA.
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May 12: Knowledge Justice (Online): Different Ways of Knowing and Doing
11-12a ET | 8-9a PT · Webcast Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThis event is a public lecture component of the Knowledge Equity and Justice Spring Seminar.
Anasuya will speak to the ways in which Whose Knowledge? as a feminist anti-colonial collective and campaign addresses (online) epistemic or knowledge justice through its work. The campaign challenges current frames of "knowing" embedded in the internet, and anchors itself in practice: different ways of doing and being. -
April 28: Reinvestment Working Group Community Call
1-2pm ET ·The SPARC Reinvestment Working Group invites you to participate in our next Community Call.
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April 20: SPARC/ORFG Webinar
1-2pm ET ·The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of 24 leading philanthropic organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs, representing the first community of practice of its kind.