ATG Interviews Heather Joseph Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

摘要

HJ: Good place to start! SPARC was founded in 1997 as an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries to address a chronic problem facing the library community: the high — and ever-increasing — cost of journal subscriptions. The idea for SPARC was born out of the collective frustration of the member libraries on ARL's Board of Directors that no amount of discussion was ever going to solve this problem and that concrete action was needed. I like to think of it as the library community's "Network" moment, where someone leans out the window and yells "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going take it anymore..."