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Self-Archive Scholarly Articles
Free, open-access, indexed by major search engines

Original Publication
Includes optional peer-review management software.

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Guide to policies and Web resources, including our online workshop

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Copyright issues and presentation techniques

Jefferson Publishing
Software publication and development resources

Jeffersoniana Collection
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AISR Support for Faculty Publishing

AISR Supports SPARC

AISR (Academic & Instructional Support & Resources) supports the goals of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC). SPARC is an alliance of over 200 universities, research libraries and organizations dedicated to creating constructive change in the scholarly communication system. It addresses the increasing consolidation of commercial publishing and crippling journal price increases with alternative publishing options, advocacy and education.

What Does SPARC Do?

• SPARC partners with existing commercial publishers and supports non-profit publishers to create competitive alternatives to the traditional journal business model.
  
• SPARC advocates for fundamental change in the system and culture of scholarly communication. Its audience includes scholars, administrators, publishers, politicians and the public.
  
• SPARC sponsors educational campaigns about the issues of scholarly publishing and copyright.

Scott Library's goal is to assist Jefferson faculty in communicating the important new knowledge they discover in a way that reaches the widest relevant audience while also retaining the copyright to their intellectual property. In additional, we seek to minimize the cost of acquiring the knowledge-based resources (journals and books) the University's faculty, students and staff require by working with academic partners internationally.

Find Out More About SPARC

• Competition: A Unifying Ideology for Change in Scholarly Communications
  By Richard K. Johnson, SPARC Enterprise Director
  
• Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication: SPARC, Its Past, Present, and Future
  By Mary Case, as published in Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 26
  
• Visit the SPARC Web site
  
• Subscribe to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter (free email service) or read the Open Access News blog by Peter Suber.

For questions regarding SPARC, please contact Edward Tawyea, Director of AISR and University Librarian, at 215-503-8848 or Edward.Tawyea@jefferson.edu.