SPARC Awards a Half-Million Dollars
in Startup Grants
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has awarded a half-million dollars in Scientific Communities Initiative grants aimed at spurring academe-based digital science publishing ventures. Columbia University Press’s Columbia Earthscape, the California Digital Library’s eScholarship, and MIT’s CogNet will receive a total of $519,000 in startup development funding.
“Each of these projects has enormous potential to transform the scientific information economy,” said SPARC Enterprise Director Rick Johnson. “Each will reduce the cost of information access and use, expand the dissemination of research, support practice and teaching, and generally benefit science, academe, and society at large.”
Founded in 1998 as an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC is an alliance of universities and research libraries that support increased competition in scientific journal publishing. Its membership currently numbers over 170 institutions and consortia.
Posted October 18, 1999.
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