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  1. SPARC Europe publishes new high-level strategic plan for 2020
  2. New Business Plan Toolkit for OA Journals
  3. OA services indispensable to the successful implementation of OA policies
  4. Report on University-Based Publishing, Spring 2015
  5. New SPARC Europe Briefing Paper: Better ways to evaluate research and researchers
  1. Breaking news: A TDM exemption for non-commercial and commercial use in Europe
  2. Electronic Publication: Intended and Unintended Consequences
  3. Over 20 new Open Access advocacy resources from Pasteur4OA
  4. Showcasing Europe's Open Access champions
  5. For a European copyright that supports text and data mining for research and innovation
  6. Get to know SPARC Europe's recent services
  7. Times they are a changing for SPARC Europe
  8. Join SPARC Europe at OAI9: Sessions on policy, monitoring, and an OA Q & A
  9. Easier access to Big Data through The Hague Declaration
  10. New life breathed into ROARMAP by Pasteur4OA
  11. Pasteur4OA: Learning about Open Access Policies Worldwide
  12. Join the community compiling the Open Access Tagging Project alerting service
  13. New SPARC Europe service: The SPARC Europe Open Access Diary
  14. Re-use and adapt SPARC Europe slides for your OA advocacy
  15. What SPARC Europe has done recently to advance scholarly communications
  16. Pasteur4OA newsletter on line
  17. How Open is Your Research?
  18. New Open Access Citation Advantage Service online
  19. Welcoming 2 new Board Members to SPARC Europe
  20. 3 OA-policies recently updated to emphasize or facilitate Gold Open Access
  21. Counting the Costs of Open Access in the UK
  22. SPARC Europe to host Open Humanities Roadshow in the UK
  23. Publishers’ Content-Mining Policies and What Libraries Can Do
  24. What is the best licensing framework for scholarly material?
  25. SPARC Europe publishes new flyer
  26. 7 institutional benefits to implementing an Open Access policy
  27. Join the SPARC Europe Board
  28. SPARC Europe welcomes the new UK Open Access policy
  29. 15 principles of transparency for scholarly publishing
  30. Announcing the launch of the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020
  31. SPARC Europe in two new EU projects - FOSTER and PASTEUR4OA
  32. Briefing Papers: OA in the humanities and in the social sciences
  33. We welcome three new members to the SPARC Europe Board
  34. The UK House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Report on Open Access
  35. What are you doing for Open Access week this year (2013)?
  36. Webcast Invitation
  37. SPARC Europe Board Election 2013 - Call for Nominations
  38. SPARC Europe Open Session at the Pre-LIBER conference
  39. SPARC Europe's Second Response to the Members of the BIS Select Committee
  40. Registry of Research Data Repositories launched - re3data.org
  41. Advocacy: How to hasten open access
  42. Interviews about Key Open Access Policy Initiatives
  43. Analysis of funder Open Access policies around the world
  44. SPARC Europe responds to the UK House of Lords Select Committee for Science & Technology inquiry into the UK Government's policy on Open Access and its implementation by RCUK
  45. SPARC Europe response to the UK Government Department of Business, Innovation & Skills Committee inquiry into the UK Government's Open Access policy
  46. Polish Ministry of Administration & Digitization - great debate on open public resources!
  47. Open Access news from France including the Minister of Higher Education and Research
  48. 29th Seminar of Higher Education Library Cooperative
  49. Croatian Open Access Declaration, the “Hamster” portal, and open access theology journals
  50. UK Business, Innovation and Skills Committee announces inquiry into Open Access
  51. 6th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar: Libraries As Drivers for Change, Brussels, 26-27 November 2012
  52. ANNOUNCEMENT - Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  53. PRESS RELEASE - New agreement concluded regarding management of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  54. Open Access Week @ AIMS
  55. Lars Bjørnshauge challenged attendees to push for real change at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference
  56. UK House of Lords enquiry on Open Access
  57. Open Education Week
  58. Interview with Alma Swan in Research Europe
  59. Sign the petition - protect EU research funding from cuts
  60. What it takes for the stakeholders involved to facilitate the full potential of open access to unfold!
  61. PPT by Lars Bjørnshauge: Is participation really the problem? If so, participation in what?
  62. R2RC Partners with PhD Comics for Open Access Week Video
  63. Ireland has announced a National Open Access Policy
  64. Developing quality test for new open access journals
  65. Open Access to Publications and Research Integrity: Keys to Research Excellence in Europe and Globally - Press Release
  66. The European Science Foundation’s EMRC calls for the adoption of open access in biomedical sciences
  67. Visibility: building online scholarly presence
  68. Alma Swan - Open Access and you – a relationship with promise
  69. Open Access to Excellence in Research
  70. R2RC European Open Access Week Webcast
  71. CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications
  72. Lars Bjørnshauge in the UKSG eNews
  73. Meeting with the Commissioner for Research & Innovation
  74. Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online
  75. Speakers announced for IFLA session on Open Access
  76. Now online: the Powerpoint of last week's Webcast on Article level metrics
  77. SPARC Europe response to EC Communication and Recommendation
  78. UK's Research Councils publish new stronger policy on Open Access
  79. SPARC Europe's response to the Finch Report
  80. Election to SPARC Europe Board
  81. SPARC Innovator: The World Bank
  82. Now online: Presentations from SPARC Europe Session at the LIBER conference
  83. SPARC Europe Members Meeting in Tartu
  84. SPARC Europe's response to the inaccuracies in the article by the Daily Mail's City Editor on 18 June
  85. COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”
  86. The Budapest Open Access Initiative at 10 - Recommendations for the next ten years
  87. Webcast Invitation: Article level metrics with Jennifer Lin
  88. New website for SPARC Europe
  89. PETITION
  90. Press Release 17 May 2012 - Pushing the Frontier on Text Mining
  91. Pushing the Frontier on Text Mining: A conversation with Heather Piwowar
  92. Lars Bjørnshauge Appointed Interim Director SPARC Europe
  93. Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
  94. The new OpenAIRE Quarterly Publication is out
  95. Bioline International, an open access e-publishing platform, is seeking new members and supporters
  96. The New European Team is in Place
  97. Experts Meeting on the UNESCO Open Access Strategy
  98. Sharing knowledge: EC-funded projects on scientific information in the digital age
  99. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting in Barcelona
  100. Sixth SPARC Europe Award goes to eIFL.net
  101. The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
  102. A new series of Webcasts for SPARC Europe members 2011
  103. First Annual European Student Summit on Open Access
  104. SPARC Europe response to EC Green Paper on a common strategic framework for EU
  105. SPARC Europe at Public Hearing on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Data
  106. Get prepared for Open Access Week 2011
  107. Interview Series
  108. UKB Statement: Concern about Elsevier’s Open Access Policy
  109. OpenAccess.se Statement approved by the Steering committee for OpenAccess.se on 23 May 2011
  110. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2011
  111. Call for Nominations
  112. UNESCO Netherlands Expert Meeting on Open Access
  113. OAI7 - Innovations in Scholarly Communication
  114. UNESCO-NL Expert Meeting on Open Access
  115. Submitted to Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
  116. PKP Europe Network
  117. OAI7 Registration is open
  118. The First OAPEN Conference
  119. Research-Education-Public Data in Athens
  120. SOAP Symposium, Berlin
  121. Research-Education-Public Data
  122. INVITATION: SOAP Symposium
  123. Knowledge Exchange Briefing paper
  124. 7 reasons why you should register now
  125. SPARC Europe joins the DARTEurope Board
  126. LIBER is seeking for a Project Officer
  127. Promotional video for OAI7 by Dr Paul Ayris
  128. First results of the SOAP Project presented at COASP
  129. Major Chinese libraries united against unreasonable price increases by some international publishers
  130. OAI7 Call for Ideas
  131. SPARC Europe goes to Greece
  132. SPARC Europe goes to Denmark
  133. SPARC Europe goes to Slovenia
  134. SPARC Europe goes to Switzerland
  135. SPARC Europe now tweets!
  136. Policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe
  137. SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 Call for Proposals
  138. A Summary of SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2010
  139. Fifth SPARC Europe Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications goes to CERN
  140. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2010
  141. SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
  142. COASP: 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
  143. SPARC Europe announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fifth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
  144. SPARC Europe announces new Director
  145. License to Publish: promoting Open Access and authors' rights in the Nordic social sciences and humanities
  146. COASP: 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers
  147. Wetenschappelijke publicaties openbaar
  148. Welcome to IIU Press and Research Centre and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, our new members
  149. A Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity
  150. Public Library of Science Continues to Innovate
  151. Fourth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications awarded to the Directory of Open Access Journals
  152. Significant New Deposit Mandates Announced
  153. OA would save the Netherlands 133 million Euros per year
  154. Centre for Research Communications (CRC) Launched
  155. SPARC Europe announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
  156. Welsh Repository Network (WRN) launch
  157. SURF announces 2009 to be Open Access Year
  158. OAI6 Registration is now Open
  159. Economic Study of OA Shows Benefits Outweigh Costs
  160. EPSRC to Adopt Open Access Mandate
  161. New Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Launched
  162. Springer Purchase BioMedCentral
  163. European Commission launches open access pilot
  164. SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to closer collaboration
  165. Third SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications awarded to Leo Waaijers
  166. Second SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications goes to SHERPA
  167. European Commission Issues 'Communication' on Open Access
  168. European Research Community Call on European Union to Adopt Open Access
  169. Fifth UK Research Council Issues Open Access Mandate
  170. European Commission Publishes Synthesis of Responses to Scientific Publications Study
  171. Fourth UK Research Council Adopts Open Access Mandate
  172. UK Funding Bodies Mandate Open Access
  173. European Commission Publishes Study Into Scientific Publications
  174. Leading European Library Organization Firmly Supports Research Councils UK New Open Access Policy
  175. UK Research Councils Publish Draft Open Access Policy
  176. Launch of the Directory of Open Access Repositories Announced
  177. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Issue Access Policy
  178. UK Science and Technology Committee Publish Report
  179. Berlin Declaration Lauched
  180. Merger Announced Between Springer and Kluwer
  181. SPARC Europe Hires Director and Formally Launches Organisation Based at Oxford University
  182. SPARC and SPARC Europe Support Budapest Open Access Initiative

New Business Plan Toolkit for OA Journals

busSPARC Europe commissioned this toolkit to help those thinking of starting an OA journal. A business plan toolkit for OA journals addresses how to describe the business venture, the market context, how to address governance and ownership, develop operational, marketing and financial plans and look at risk assessment. Read it here.

SPARC Europe publishes new high-level strategic plan for 2020

SPARC Europe outlines its new vision, mission and value proposition. In addition, it describes its key goals for the coming years as well as high level activities.
Click here for more info

OA services indispensable to the successful implementation of OA policies

KE_LogoKnowledge Exchange has just published a report on how critical an OA service infrastructure is to implement OA policy – including SHERPA services, DOAJ, ORCID, to name a few. It recommends 4 priority actions for such a sustainable and stable infrastructure to take place. For more, see the report.

Breaking news: A TDM exemption for non-commercial and commercial use in Europe

Excellent news for Text and Data Mining users: The EU’s European Commission publicised today that they will be working on an exemption for TDM for non-commercial and commercial use. This is a broader exemption than the one adopted in the UK and, if adopted as legislation, this would mean a major boost for research and innovation in Europe. This is part of their vision to modernise European copyright rules.

SPARC Europe and many other organizations have been working for this, and it is so good to see that our efforts have made an impact!
We made recommendations to the European Commission and the European Parliament on changing European copyright law to ensure easy access to data for text and data miners: See our Briefing Paper on TDM here.

New SPARC Europe Briefing Paper: Better ways to evaluate research and researchers

iStock_000014530753_FullSPARC Europe’s new briefing paper addresses the issue of research evaluation, which is at the core of scholarly communication. It looks at alternative metrics for the more effective assessment of research.

Download it here.

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