The Growing Call for Public Access

Abstract

Why public access is important. Implications of the Federal Research Public Access Act (S.2695) on research, publishing, and open access. Heather Joseph has spent the last 16 years in the scholarly publishing community. She is an active participant in several professional societies, and just ended her term as the President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. In 2005, Heather was appointed to serve as Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an organization that works to support a more open system of scholarly communication.