[Dspace-general] SPARC announces November 2008 Digital Repositories Meeting

[Michele Kimpton]

For immediate release
April 7, 2008

For more information:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296
jennifer at arl.org

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

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

Coming on the heels of two groundbreaking developments‹a recent vote by
Harvard¹s Faculty of Arts and Sciences enabling the university to offer
access to their articles in an institutional repository and  
implementation
of a new National Institutes of Health public access policy‹the  
meeting will
enable stakeholders to explore next steps for the burgeoning open  
archiving
movement.

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

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

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

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

This is the first North American SPARC digital repositories conference  
since
the organization¹s popular 2004 meeting, which drew hundreds of  
participants
from around the globe and set the stage for some of the key  
developments of
the past four years.

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

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

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