For more information, visit the SPARC Web site at <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc.##SPARCSPARC">http://www.arl.org/sparc.##SPARCSPARC</a> (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.