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Friday, July 27, 2007

OA publishers discuss the challenges of sustainability

The presentations and audio from the SPARC panel, Course check: A conversation with three open access publishers about the challenges of sustainability (Washington, D.C., June 23, 2007, within the larger ALA annual conference) are now online.  All four presentations are relevant:

  • Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives
  • Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing at PLoS
  • Bryan Vickery, Deputy Publisher at BMC and Editorial Director at Chemistry Central
  • Paul Peters, Head of Business Development at Hindawi Publishing