We believe that there are great opportunities to reorder the scholarly communication process by exploiting new technology and new business models that better serve the information needs of researchers, universities, and society. We work with a large number of societies, universities, academics, and publishers to encourage new products and projects that compete against existing journals or that exploit new technology. You will find details of these on the SPARC Partners page. SPARC Europe fully supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the twin strategy of author self-archiving and open access journals. We encourage everybody interested in providing wider access to scholarly literature to put their names to the Initiative. On our open access page you will find a further description of the models we support, together with links to relevant resources. On our Diary and Presentations page you will find details of both forthcoming and recent international meetings attended (together with links to presentations where available). PUBLICATIONS Fulfilling the Promise of Scholarly Communication – a Comparison Between Old and New Access Models, in Nielsen, Erland Kolding and Saur, Klaus G and Ceynowa, Klaus, Eds. Die innovative Bibliothek : Elmar Mittler zum 65.Geburtstag, pp. 95-106. K G Saur. The Next Information Revolution - How Open Access will Transform Scholarly Communications, in Gorman, G E and Rowland, Fytton, Eds. International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005: Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era, chapter 6, pp. 99-117. Facet Publishing. Science and Technology Committee Report on Scientific Publications - The UK Government's Response, High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, Issue 10, December 2004. The view from Europe: Creating international change, C&RL News, pp.265-268, 2004. Available from the publisher here or from here. Between a rock and a hard place: the big squeeze for small publishers, Learned Publishing, pp. 17-22, 2004. Available from the publisher here or from the SPARC Europe website here. The next information revolution - how open access repositories and journals will transform scholarly communications, Liber Quarterly, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2004. Available from the publisher here or in pre-print form from the SPARC Europe website here. La cara canviant de la comunicació científica, BiD; Textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, Número 11, desembre 2003. Online here, with an english version here. From here to there: a proposed mechanism for transforming journals from closed to open access, Learned Publishing, pp. 163-166, 2003. Available from the publisher here or from the SPARC Europe website here. Scholarly communication in the 21st century - the impact of new technologies and models, Serials, pp. 163-167, 2003. Available from the publisher here or in pre-print form from the SPARC Europe website here. Information revolution: can institutional repositories and open access transform scholarly communications?, ELSO Gazette, Issue 15, July 2003. Online here. ADVOCACY A large part of the work of SPARC Europe is advocacy. Also, as part of our advocacy programme we have a number of marketing pieces that you may find useful: Create Change Website Creat Change Brochure - Revised October 2003 Create Change UK Brochure (112k) French Create Change Powerpoint (863k) Create Change Create Change Brochure in Catalan Create Change Brochure in Greek Create Change Brochure in Italian Introduction to SPARC Europe in Italian Create Change Brochure in Spanish Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newletter in Spanish Create Change Brochure in Turkish SPARC Europe Action Program (180k) Gaining Independence Declaring Independence     Last updated: 2 June 2006