Heather Joseph gives a view of doing advocacy on a national level to advance the cause of open access. She does believe that there are commonalities in her experience with the African perspective, in that they both deal with the issue of how to bring disparate communities and stakeholders, disparate resources and methodologies together to affect significant change in the open access arena.
She gives an overview of what SPARC does and its objectives, and then explains the key issues within the industry that brought SPARC to the idea of Open Access. In a very clever move, SPARC analysed the core issue by understanding that the journal process is merely a symptom of imbalances in the system of scholarship. Heather then elaborates on the outcome of delving into the research funding process by understanding the funders and their motivations. Lastly she discusses the process for affecting policy change, as well as the process behind SPARC’s advocacy work.
About Heather Joseph
Heather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a library-based organization that support open access to the results of scholarly and scientific research through enabling open access publishing and archiving channels, programs, and advocacy for local, national and international open access policies.
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