The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and Asia will test new frontiers in online open archives at the 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The international gathering, organised by SPARC in cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, will be held November 8-9, 2010, with pre- and post-conference events scheduled for November 7 and 10.
Organised by the Program Committee, four timely discussion tracks - Repository-based publishing services: Strategies for success (or failure), Open data, Global repository networks and Making the case for financial sustainability - will bring together speakers with far-reaching experience. The meeting's four programme tracks will be complemented by a host of other engaging event opportunities. These include user group sessions with ePrints, Microsoft and @mire; The SPARC Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be highlighted; Vendor Showcase, where select sponsors will introduce latest products and services; and workshop on institution-based Open Access modeling.
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 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 is supported by major contributions from Microsoft, the University of Alberta, Digital Commons (by Berkeley Electronic Press), Open Repository (by BioMed Central) and by supporting organisations, including the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Boston Library Consortium, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Data Conversion Laboratory, Duraspace, Greater Western Library Alliance, Nellco, NorthEast Research Libraries consortium, Oracle, and SURFfoundation.
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