SPARC (North America)
51 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 12 years ago -The official video account of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Here you can find video of all our conferences and special events. SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. To learn more, visit http://arl.org/sparc
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R2RC 2011 OAWeek Webcast: The State of Open Access and the Student Role in Creating Change
December 14, 2011 15:34 - 1 hour - 73.8 MB VideoThe Right to Research Coalition's first Open Access Week 2011 webcast features Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), speaking on the current state of Open Access and the importance of students in making open the new norm in scholarly publishing. The webcast also features Goldis Chami, a medical student at the University of British Columbia, who details her experience leading the charge for a campus open-access policy at her un...
SPARC 2011 OAWeek guest: Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive
October 20, 2011 11:04 - 8 minutes - 10 MB VideoBrewster Kahle - Open Access Week 2011
SPARC 2010 OAWeek guest: Roger Wakimoto, Director, National Corporation for Atmospheric Research
October 12, 2011 02:32 - 1 minute - 4.03 MB VideoSPARC
SPARC 2010 OAWeek guest: Cameron Neylon, biophysicist and open research advocate
October 12, 2011 00:06 - 3 minutes - 11.7 MB VideoSPARC
SPARC OAWeek 2010 Guest Harold Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute
October 07, 2011 19:14 - 4 minutes - 14.1 MB VideoSPARC OPEN ACCESS WEEK PROMO #2
SPARC OAWeek 2010 Guest Mona Nemer, Provost, University of Ottawa
October 07, 2011 19:10 - 2 minutes - 7.11 MB VideoSPARC OPEN ACCESS WEEK
Webcast 2011-06-14
August 01, 2011 15:16 - 1 hour - 66.7 MB VideoWebcast 2011-06-07
August 01, 2011 14:34 - 44 minutes - 33.8 MB VideoPubMed Central 20th Anniversary
June 10, 2011 14:09 - 12 minutes - 61.3 MB VideoPubMed Central celebrates its 20th anniversary!
IR Tailgate 2011: Building Your Fan Base
April 26, 2011 17:33 - 50 minutes - 120 MB VideoIR Tailgate 2011: The Half Time Report & Wrap Up
April 26, 2011 16:59 - 55 minutes - 194 MB VideoIR Tailgate 2011: Paul Royster
April 26, 2011 16:23 - 28 minutes - 108 MB VideoIR Tailgate 2011: Marilyn Billings
April 26, 2011 16:04 - 20 minutes - 66.1 MB VideoIR Tailgate 2011: Isaac Gilman
April 26, 2011 15:50 - 23 minutes - 74.1 MB VideoIR Tailgate 2011: Introduction & Marisa Ramirez
April 26, 2011 15:35 - 38 minutes - 132 MB VideoThe (OA) Week ahead
March 09, 2011 22:34 - 57 minutes - 35.3 MB VideoThe (OA) Week ahead, a webcast given 21 February 2011.
SPARC A to Z = Welcome New Members
February 17, 2011 22:32 - 30 minutes - 23.7 MB VideoSPARC A to Z = Welcome New Members, a webcast given 31 Jan 2011.
Robin Crewe on Open Access
January 26, 2011 22:39 - 3 minutes - 23 MB VideoPart of Open Access Week 2010.
John Houghton on Open Access
January 26, 2011 22:29 - 2 minutes - 58.6 MB VideoPart of Open Access Week 2010.
Open Access Week 2010 Kick-off Event
January 25, 2011 23:22 - 20 minutes - 65.2 MB VideoThe kick-off video for Open Access Week 2010.
Panel on Global Repositories at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
January 25, 2011 03:33 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB VideoPanel on Global Repositories at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010, featuring Dr. Neil Jacobs, Jun Adachi, and Clifford Lynch.
The Innovation Fair at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
January 25, 2011 02:51 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB VideoThe Innovation Fair at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010.
George Strewn at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
January 25, 2011 02:17 - 39 minutes - 34.5 MB VideoGeorge Strewn at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2010.
Open Access 101
January 25, 2011 00:33 - 3 minutes - 8.19 MB VideoJim Neal at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul)
January 24, 2011 23:53 - 13 minutes - 29.8 MB VideoJim Neal at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul).
Ivy Anderson at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul)
January 24, 2011 23:49 - 28 minutes - 56.9 MB VideoIvy Anderson at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul).
Kim Douglas's introduction at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul)
January 24, 2011 23:38 - 16 minutes - 36.4 MB VideoKim Douglas's introduction at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul).
Emma Hill at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul)
January 24, 2011 23:33 - 21 minutes - 43.7 MB VideoEmma Hill at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul).
Charles Lowry, PhD at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul)
January 24, 2011 23:22 - 16 minutes - 32.7 MB VideoCharles Lowry, PhD at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jul).
Bob Witeck keynote at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
January 24, 2011 22:12 - 14 minutes - 67.1 MB VideoTo connect with your community about open access, you need to think like a marketer. In his keynote luncheon address, Bob Witeck, chief executive officer and founding partner of Witeck-Combs Communications Inc., said he wanted to deliver confidence to the SPARC meeting attendees as fellow marketers telling them: Go forth and evangelize. By sharing the key messages about messaging, Witeck explained what it takes to market a product, service and, more importantly, an idea. To successfully commu...
John Wilbanks keynote, Part 2 at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
January 24, 2011 22:02 - 42 minutes - 200 MB VideoWhile the concept of a digital repository is embraced by many academics ? particularly those designing the systems - getting the information deposited is difficult. ?There seems to be a disconnect between the discussion of people planning to share the information and the amount of information being shared, ?said Wilbanks at the opening keynote. One of the main reasons that it?s hard to get content posted is because stables systems ? in this case, generally universities ? are resistant to chan...
John Wilbanks keynote, Part 1 at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
January 24, 2011 21:23 - 7 minutes - 35.6 MB VideoWhile the concept of a digital repository is embraced by many academics ? particularly those designing the systems - getting the information deposited is difficult. ?There seems to be a disconnect between the discussion of people planning to share the information and the amount of information being shared, ?said Wilbanks at the opening keynote. One of the main reasons that it?s hard to get content posted is because stables systems ? in this case, generally universities ? are resistant to chan...
David Shulenburger keynote at the Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
January 24, 2011 21:14 - 31 minutes - 110 MB VideoAs much as we would like, universities don?t fund themselves. In the closing keynote, David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), offered practical advice on how to make digital repositories more visible to the public in hopes of winning over taxpayer support for educational institutions. ?A digital repository is the most effective way to make information free and the public wants and desperately needs ...
Sarah Shreeves: On Faculty Outreach
January 24, 2011 20:58 - 2 minutes - 11.9 MB VideoSarah Shreeves says one of the key things she has learned in her work as IDEALS Coordinator at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is that ?involving library liaisons in the [repository development] process as early as possible can create some really big wins. Our most successful communities are the ones that the subject selectors are really spearheading? by talking with faculty about scholarly communication issues, author rights, and data storage and management opportunities while als...
Sarah Shreeves: What Are Our Success Factors?
January 24, 2011 20:55 - 1 minute - 7.11 MB VideoSarah Shreeves says one of the key things she has learned in her work as IDEALS Coordinator at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is that ?involving library liaisons in the [repository development] process as early as possible can create some really big wins. Our most successful communities are the ones that the subject selectors are really spearheading? by talking with faculty about scholarly communication issues, author rights, and data storage and management opportunities while als...
Michele Kimpton: Progress in Repository Development
January 24, 2011 20:54 - 2 minutes - 9.7 MB Video?If you?re first coming into this arena, you have so much more to work with than you did a couple of years ago as an early adopter,? says Michelle Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation. She cites a number of encouraging trends, including the introduction of services that bring together content from across many repositories, the growing end-user focus of development activity, and expanding collaboration within and across institutions. She says open access to repository content?n...
Michele Kimpton: On Using Open Content
January 24, 2011 20:52 - 1 minute - 6.15 MB Video?If you?re first coming into this arena, you have so much more to work with than you did a couple of years ago as an early adopter,? says Michelle Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation. She cites a number of encouraging trends, including the introduction of services that bring together content from across many repositories, the growing end-user focus of development activity, and expanding collaboration within and across institutions. She says open access to repository content?n...
Ernie Ingles: Why Repositories?
January 24, 2011 20:51 - 2 minutes - 10.4 MB VideoErnie Ingles, Vice Provost and Chief Librarian at University of Alberta, says that institutional repositoriy development ?brings [libraries] right back into the mainstream of providing services to our faculty and graduate students.? During this period of tight budgets, libraries must decide whether supporting a digital repository is an ?add on? or an ?instead of? in their resource allocations. ?In my opinion, institutional repositories are here to stay," says Ingles. If new funds cannot be fo...
Catherine Mitchell: On Services, Users & Alliances
January 24, 2011 20:49 - 4 minutes - 18 MB VideoThe University of California is moving away from the concept of a repository??we?ve erased the word from our conversation??and instead is focused on providing digital publishing services for faculty authors and developing a robust access interface for these publications, according to Catherine Mitchell, Director of the eScholarship Publishing Group at California Digital Library (CDL). ?We?re moving away from the notion of ?deposit.? In fact, deposit becomes a by-product of the services we?re ...
Bonnie Klien: On Government Repositories
January 24, 2011 20:45 - 3 minutes - 15.1 MB VideoBonnie Klein, Information Collection/Copyright Specialist at the US Defense Technical Information Center, points to the long experience of government agencies in capturing and preserving their intellectual assets in repositories so information can be reorganized, reduced, and recombined. ?Without the repositories, these reports would sit in somebody?s office?and this information would be lost,? says Klein. She urges universities to ?collect the corporate output of the institution? to support ...
Patrick Alexander at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010
January 24, 2011 20:27 - 15 minutes - 60.5 MB VideoPatrick Alexander speaks at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010.
Michael Jenson at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010
January 24, 2011 20:14 - 15 minutes - 58.7 MB VideoMichael Jenson speaks at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010.
Maria Bonn at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010
January 24, 2011 20:02 - 15 minutes - 62.9 MB VideoMaria Bonn speaks at the ALA Winter Meeting 2010.
Shoutouts from the Students for Free Culture conference
January 24, 2011 19:30 - 4 minutes - 34.2 MB VideoOpen Access Day 2008
Richard Baraniuk at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jan)
January 22, 2011 00:25 - 16 minutes - 41.6 MB VideoRichard Baraniuk speaks at the January 2009 SPARC-ACRL Forum on Open Education Resources.
Nicole Allen at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jan)
January 22, 2011 00:13 - 14 minutes - 37.3 MB VideoNicole Allen speaks at the January 2009 SPARC-ACRL Forum on Open Education Resources.
Mark Nelson at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jan)
January 22, 2011 00:04 - 15 minutes - 36.5 MB VideoMark Nelson speaks at the January 2009 SPARC-ACRL Forum on Open Education Resources.
David Wiley at the SPARC-ACRL Forum 2009 (Jan)
January 21, 2011 23:52 - 14 minutes - 36.9 MB VideoDavid Wiley speaks at the January 2009 SPARC-ACRL Forum on Open Education Resources.
Wim van der Stelt at the SPARC-ACRL Forum (Jan 2011)
January 19, 2011 19:05 - 21 minutes - 13.7 MB VideoWim va der Stelt
Catriona MacCallum at the SPARC-ACRL Forum (Jan 2011)
January 19, 2011 18:52 - 21 minutes - 15.8 MB VideoCatriona MacCallum