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- February 1, 2003
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Durham, U.K.
As the scholarly communications crisis intensifies, interest in alternative publishing models is growing in Europe. The creation of a European chapter of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and last year's founding of the International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA) have both increased awareness. SPARC and ISCA are currently organizing 1-day events at U.K. universities, with the aim of alerting academics to the issues and encouraging them to engage in self-archiving.
One such event was held Dec. 10,2002, at the University of Durham. Paul Ayris, ISCA's coordinator and director of library services at ...