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SPARC Open Access to Scholarship New Solutions

SPARC Open Access to Scholarship New Solutions. Facts and figures. Academic libraries in the UK spent 19% more per fte student to purchase 18% fewer journal titles per fte student in 1999-2000 than in 1991-92

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SPARC Open Access to Scholarship New Solutions

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  1. SPARC Open Access to Scholarship New Solutions JISC CNI Conference

  2. Facts and figures • Academic libraries in the UK spent 19% more per fte student to purchase 18% fewer journal titles per fte student in 1999-2000 than in 1991-92 • While world production of scholarly communication is estimated to have doubled since the mid 1980s, the average research library's journal subscriptions have actually declined by 6% • There are currently 20,000 peer-reviewed journals of scientific and scholarly research worldwide, publishing over 4 million articles per year JISC CNI Conference

  3. Facts and Figures • Subsidies from granting agencies and universities for publishing in the humanities have virtually disappeared in the past 15 years. • Academic libraries in the UK are purchasing 19% fewer monographs per fte student today than they did 8 years ago due to high journal prices and resources in new formats • Journals purchased by UK academic libraries have gone up in price an average of 11% per annum since 1991-92, while the consumer price index has increased by only 2.7% per annum. JISC CNI Conference

  4. THE EFFECT OF JOURNAL PRICES ON UK ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Graph and statistical information compiled from the SCONUL Statistics by LISU, the Library and Information Statistics Unit, based at Loughborough University JISC CNI Conference

  5. SPARC SPARC is a world-wide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organisations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market. SPARC introduces new solutions to scientific journal publishing, facilitates the use of technology to expand access, and partners with publishers that bring top-quality, low-cost research to a greater audience. SPARC strives to return science to scientists. • http://www.arl.org/sparc JISC CNI Conference

  6. What Does SPARC Do? • Incubation of competitive alternatives • Public advocacy of fundamental changes in the system and the culture of scholarly communication • Education campaigns aimed at enhancing awareness of scholarly communication issues and supporting expanded institutional and scholarly community roles in and control over the scholarly communication process JISC CNI Conference

  7. SPARC Europe • CURL, SCONUL and JISC, with participation by LIBER, sponsoredavisit to the UK by SPARC representatives in February 2001 to raise awareness of SPARC activities and to consider expanding the SPARC agenda in Europe • SPARC Europe is supported by LIBER, CURL, IWI, JISC, SCONUL, SPARC, and UKB • http://www.sparceurope.org JISC CNI Conference

  8. 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI):Gaining independencewith e-prints archives and OAI, October 17-19, 2002, CERNFor more information: http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm. JISC CNI Conference

  9. "Institutional Repositories: Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Institution Partnerships," October 18, 2002, Washington, DC JISC CNI Conference

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