SCOSS 6th pledging awardees announced
Now in its sixth year, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is excited to announce the four new Open Science infrastructure partners that will join the SCOSS Family. … Read More
Open Access
PALOMERA provides new ground-breaking resources in OA book policy
The PALOMERA project is wrapping up after two years of in-depth work on Open Access books policy in Europe. SPARC Europe is proud to have participated in this project. PALOMERA has … Read More
Positioning Rights Retention in Europe
The Retain project, which SPARC Europe leads within the Knowledge Rights 21 programme, has just published a position paper on authors’ rights retention, Retaining rights in research outputs to enable the … Read More
A financial sustainability health check for institutional publishers and service providers
Institutional publishing is central to the ecosystem of Diamond OA publishing. To maintain this growing ecosystem, it is vital to gain continued insights into the financial health of the operations of … Read More
The facets of Diamond OA across Europe
The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organisations and networks involved in … Read More
New report on the sustainability of Diamond OA in Europe
A new report from the DIAMAS work package that SPARC Europe leads looks at understanding how institutional publishing is sustained today. Institutional publishers and service providers are diverse due to their … Read More
How to self-assess the financial health of OA publishing? Help develop it
The DIAMAS project is developing a financial self-assessment tool for institutional publishers and service providers (IPSPs). It has been developed by WP5, which SPARC Europe leads. We look forward to launching … Read More
SPARC Europe publishes Annual Report. Highlights of 2023
It has been a busy year for SPARC Europe. Key highlights from the year include: Continuing to support over 20 national OS policymakers by facilitating CoNOSC: sharing knowledge on research assessment, … Read More
Where are we with repositories in Europe today?
Open Science is becoming the default in Europe and researchers are getting unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other new research methods. … Read More