Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship Launches Open Access Lecture Series | Kansas State University | News and Communications Services

" ... To address some of the ways open access affects academia in general and Kansas State University in particular, K-State Libraries' Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship has created the Open Access Lecture Series. The series is co-sponsored by the university's Graduate School. The series kicks off this spring with a Provost's Lecture featuring Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, also known as SPARC, which supports new models for the open sharing of digital articles, data and educational resources. Joseph will speak at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in Hale Library's Hemisphere Room. Under her stewardship, the coalition has become a leading international force for effective open access policies and practices ..."