The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that measuring the once-hidden impact of Open Access on clinical practice and public awareness, embedding digital repositories into the research cycle, encouraging student publishing, and engaging elusive faculty are just some of the top innovations to be showcased at the SPARC Innovation Fair next month. The Innovation Fair is a favoured highlight of the biennial SPARC Open Access Meeting, set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 12 and 13.
In rapid-fire presentations that breathe energy and personality into scholarly communications issues, Innovation Fair participants will share their creative approaches to a diverse set of challenges. This year, a suite of librarians, technologists, research producers, and publishers will take on the task of presenting, in no more than two minutes, innovative or creative approaches to: the use of open content, content discovery, value-added services, impact assessment, commercial innovation, and Open Access advocacy.
The SPARC Open Access meeting expands on the popular SPARC Digital Repositories meetings, hosted biennially since 2004, and will provide a North American-based complement to the 'Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI)' workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland in alternating years. The SPARC meeting will be a regular forum for a full discussion of Open Access as an emerging norm in research and scholarship and will emphasise collaborative strategies for advancing scholarship for all stakeholders to help effect positive change.
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