Abstract
The new ship SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) was formally launched in 1998 as a response to the realization within the research library community that the lack of competition in the marketplace for scientific journals could eventually translate into the collapse of scientific communications. To facilitate competition, SPARC nurtures the creation of high-quality, low-priced, peer-reviewed STM publications and works to reduce the risk to its publisher-partners of entering markets in which prices are highest and competition is needed most. The SPARC crew of libraries and partners is helping ships of scholars and societies navigate through the uncharted waters of electronic scholarly publishing. This paper describes the SPARC ship and the course it is taking for those who might want to sail along.
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