Heather Joseph is a United States-based advocate for
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
and particularly
academic journal publishing reform Academic journal publishing reform is the advocacy for changes in the way academic journals are created and distributed in the age of the Internet and the advent of electronic publishing. Since the rise of the Internet, people have organized campai ...
. She is the Executive Director of the
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. The coalition ...
(SPARC) and a member of the
PLOS
PLOS (for Public Library of Science; PLoS until 2012 ) is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license. It was founded in 2000 and launc ...
Board of Directors.
Background
In the late 1990s, Joseph was the editor of ''
Molecular Biology of the Cell
''Molecular Biology of the Cell'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960. ''.
In August 2000, Joseph was appointed President and COO o
BioOne In this role, Joseph led the non-profit start-up enterprise’s business, operational, administrative, and strategic development.
Projects
Joseph encourages scientists to encourage their publications to get the broadest readership possible by discussing publishing options with research institutions, scientific societies, and the government.
She advocates for the passing of the
Federal Research Public Access Act.
She is one of the organizers of
Access2Research
Access2Research is a campaign in the United States for academic journal publishing reform led by open access advocates Michael W. Carroll, Heather Joseph, Mike Rossner, and John Wilbanks.
On May 20, 2012, it launched a petition to the White Ho ...
.
In December 2020, the
National Information Standards Organization
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO; ) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications. It was found ...
(NISO) recognized her accomplishments "as a leader in the open access movement" by selecting Joseph for the 2021 Miles Conrad Award.
References
External links
profile at SPARC22-minute audio interview by Coalition for Networked Information
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Open access activists
Copyright activists
Copyright scholars