Heather Joseph, MA, is the executive director of SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international coalition of libraries that promotes the open sharing of scholarship. As SPARC’s director, Joseph has supported the creation and implementation of open access infrastructure, policies, and practices, and is the architect of SPARC’s advocacy agenda. Prior to joining SPARC, she spent fifteen years as a journal publisher in both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations.

“In our libraries, we’re really well placed to have conversations and really bring expert advice to our home institutions - our universities, our colleges, the higher education institutions where we’re nested - with thinking through how our strategy for providing access to knowledge fits in with our larger university missions.”

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