SPARC Names New Visiting Program Officer for Open Models - SPARC

"Moriana Molchanov Garcia has joined the SPARC team in a newly created position as a Visiting Program Officer for Open Models. She will serve in this one-year role in addition to her job as a Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York....

As VPO, Moriana will help SPARC increase library understanding and acceptance of funding models that provide equitable open access to both readers and authors without relying on article processing charges. The work will focus on collective and “conditional open” models, such as Subscribe to Open (S2O), that make open access contingent on library support...."