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
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
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
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 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
Imagine a world where thousands of peer-reviewed journals, books, datasets, and other research output are no longer available online, a world without persistent identifiers, registries, and standards for data exchange, where … Read More
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
A new SPARC Europe report focuses on the state of Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) across European higher education institutions in 2023. Supported by the European Network of … Read More
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