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SPARC Europe represents the interests of research and educational institutions across Europe. Your support is vital in bringing positive change to scholarly communications. Your annual membership fee funds a variety of projects and initiatives that are important in ensuring that the view of libraries across Europe are communicated effectively to publishers and policy makers.
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Joining SPARC Europe is a first step in helping bring improvements towards a better system of access to academic and research information. You can also do more by advocating change within your own organisation. We are always happy to help - please contact us for more information, or refer to the advocacy guides below.
- Create Change
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A comprehensive resource for scholarly communications advocacy
- Create Change Brochures
- Create Change in French [Powerpoint]
- Create Change in Greek [PDF]
- Create Change in Italian [PDF] - Introduction to SPARC Europe in Italian
- Create Change in English [PDF]
- Declaring Independence
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A 2001 booklet designed as a tool for scholars and journal editors to address the crisis in scientific scholarly communication and begin to explore alternatives to commercial journals.
- Gaining Independence
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A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture.
A publication of SPARC dedicated to helping transform the scholarly communications marketplace and process. SPARC intends this manual to help universities, libraries, societies, and others implement alternatives to commercially-published scholarly and scientific information.
- Scholarly Communication Discussion Guides
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A series from the Association of Research Libraries of introductions to some of the most important issues in scholarly communications, including peer-review and author rights.