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SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of academic and research libraries and organizations working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change, its pragmatic focus is to facilitate the emergence of systems that capitalize on the networked environment to disseminate research. Its strategies expand competition and support open access to address the high and rising cost of scholarly journals, especially in science, technology, and medicine - a trend which inhibits the advancement of scholarship.

What Does SPARC Do?

SPARC's agenda focuses on enhancing broad and cost-effective access to peer-reviewed scholarship. This objective is pursued via three strategic thrusts:

Incubation: SPARC creates and develops competitive alternatives to current high-priced commercial journals and digital aggregations.
Publisher partnerships and advisory services serve to demonstrate alternatives which rely on different business models than traditional journals and promote competition for authors and buyers. SPARC's goal is to stimulate expansion of the non-profit sector's share of overall scholarly publishing activity.

Advocacy: SPARC promotes fundamental changes in the system and the culture of scholarly communication. This encompasses outreach targeted at various stakeholder groups (e.g., librarians, faculty, and editorial boards), as well as ongoing communications and public relations activities that publicize key issues and initiatives. The advocacy thrust leverages the impact of SPARC's publishing partnerships, providing broad awareness of the possibilities for change and emboldening scholars to act.

Education: SPARC develops campaigns aimed at enhancing awareness of scholarly communication issues and supports expanded institutional and community participation in and control over the scholarly communication process.

Since its launch in June 1998, the SPARC coalition, served by the SPARC staff, has advanced this agenda by:

• demonstrating that new journals can successfully compete for authors and quickly establish quality;
  
• effectively driving down the cost of journals;
  
• creating an environment in which editors and editorial board members claim more prominent roles in the business aspects of their journals;
  
• stimulating the development of increased publishing capacity in the not-for-profit sector and encouraging new players to enter the market;
  
• providing help and guidance to scientists and librarians interested in creating change;
  
• carrying the methods and message of change to international stakeholders.