Gary Price, Editor, infoDOCKET and Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition) continue our expert dialogue series in the Open Access movement. Questions include:

- Can you tell us a little bit about your background?
- How is SPARC organized? Why did it separate from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)?
- Is SPARC a purely membership organization? Do you receive grants?
- How is SPARC getting students involved with this coalition?
- What is your relationship with SPARC Europe?
- How is open access different globally? Are the issues the same in other countries?
- Are you positive that the funding sustainability is there for open access?
- Do you see images and video being part of the open access discussion?
- What are academics and professors looking for with open access?
- Is it confusing to users to have so many different versions of articles floating around?
- What are your feelings about altmetrics?
- What can be done to make open access material more discoverable?
- What can be done to make people aware of open access tools before they begin using an academic library?
- Would you agree that high school students should learn about open access?
- If it were all up to you, what would be the next steps for open access globally?

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