Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced that the 19th biennial SPARC-ACRL forum on emerging issues in scholarly communication will be held at the Chicago meeting of the American Library Association in July. Co-sponsored by SPARC and ACRL, the forum will explore 'Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace.'
Libraries have long been grappling with constrained collection budgets. The economy and its impact on library and higher education budgets are projected as the most urgent concern for the library community today. This forum will take a bird's eye view of the scholarly communication marketplace and suggest tactics for navigating through tough times.
Speakers will revisit the economics of the scholarly communications marketplace, offer concrete strategies that libraries can deploy now to begin to offset financial pressures, demonstrate positive efforts from the publishing community, and offer a global view of new opportunities to advance change and thrive in future.
