Funding to Knowledge Rights 21 Programme extended
We are really pleased to announce that the Arcadia Fund has extended its support of the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) Programme for a further five years. This continued funding will allow … Read More
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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
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
Rights Retention Project Retain II launches
A follow-up to SPARC Europe’s Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of Knowledge has recently been approved by the advocacy programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21). KR21 works to bring about changes in … Read More
Towards a Common Framework for Monitoring Open Science
SPARC Europe is pleased to announce that it will coordinate a new initiative with the Université de Lorraine. The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) strives to provide a common, global framework … Read More
Connecting the worlds of Open Science and Open Education to increase capacity for an Open Europe
With 20 years of action in the Open space, SPARC Europe is embarking on a year-long process to create a broader open agenda by connecting Open Science and Open Education. Making … 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