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McAfee Named SPARC Innovator
January 22, 2009
 The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has named R. Preston McAfee, Caltech's J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, the newest SPARC Innovator "for his pioneering contributions to the Open Educational Resources movement and passionate advocacy for Open Access." In 2006, McAfee published a complete textbook, Introduction to Economic Analysis, online and made it available to readers as open-source material. Under a Creative Commons license that requires attribution, users can pick and choose chapters or integrate excerpts of the text with their own material.According to SPARC's executive director, Heather Joseph, "Open educational resources, including textbooks, are a natural extension of what we support in Open Access. . . . SPARC is pleased to highlight both Dr. McAfee's contributions and the path he has laid for other authors to follow."
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