“You feel better, more fair, inclusive and transparent with more relevant assessment. It brings you back to society and out of your ivory tower.” This month, SPARC Europe, the San Francisco … Read More
SPARC Europe’s new strategy continues to strive to make Open research and education the default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and society as a whole. We will dedicate … Read More
cOAlition S will issue its policy on Open Access (OA) monographs and chapters in late 2021. As part of a strategy to gather opinions and OA book policy priorities from the … Read More
During the autumn of 2020, SPARC Europe published a series of interviews with ten leaders of OS infrastructure to shed light on the choices and challenges scholarly communication infrastructure have when … Read More
“We see a diverse, interconnected, open, professional and viable, OS infrastructure ecosystem in Europe on solid ground; one that is worth investing in. At the same time, this ecosystem — still … Read More
Today, SPARC Europe is releasing an anticipated new report: Open Access: An Analysis of Publisher Copyright and Licensing Policies in Europe, 2020. This analysis, which presents the results of a research … Read More
A healthy Open infrastructure is essential to Open Science. Yet, there’s much to learn about the disparate services and resources that collectively comprise this infrastructure if we are to secure it. … Read More
SPARC Europe is looking for an Open Education Community Manager community manager who will help build European library capacity when supporting those who create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute Open Education … Read More
SPARC Europe is poised to embark on a new, two-and-a-half-year programme to grow Open Education capacity among libraries of higher education in Europe. The project will allow us to gain a … Read More