The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, has announced the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010, to be held November 8-9, 2010, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meetings are regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America. These meetings draw hundreds of participants from around the globe, and set the stage for key developments over the past six years.
The North American meeting is a unique forum for diverse stakeholders - librarians, technologists, research producers, research funders, publishers and commercial interests - to come together and consider how best to leverage the practices and policies that have proven successful and explore new challenges. The meeting is also a key venue for librarians, the leading advocates for repositories, to share and refine strategies to engage stakeholders across campus.
As repositories expand as core components of the world's fast-evolving digital infrastructure, four key trends have been identified by the programme committee for deeper exploration at the meeting. These are: Repository-based publishing strategies; Global repository networks; Open data; Making the case for financial sustainability. These tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be highlighted.
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