The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released summaries, slides, and video from the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting, jointly hosted by SPARC, SPARC Japan/NII, and SPARC Europe, in Baltimore on November 8-9, 2010.
The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of open online repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meeting is regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America, draws hundreds of participants from around the globe, and has helped set the stage for key developments over the past six years. This time, participants indicated the need for a broader meeting and discussion, which highlight repositories in the full Open Access context.
The 2010 meeting set forth to explore four key trends - repository-based publishing strategies, global repository networks, open data, and making the case for financial sustainability. These panel discussions were supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches were highlighted, and a Sponsor Showcase.
Summaries, plus slides and selected video, are currently available through the SPARC website at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/dr10.
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