A coalition of library and research community representatives, comprised of EBLIDA, DCC, IFLA and SPARC Europe, recently submitted our position and proposed amendments to the Directive 2003/98/EC on the reuse of … Read More
Earlier this week, the European Parliament voted on its proposed amendments to the draft directive of the controversial Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. At this point, following this … Read More
/News Release/ The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, an initiative aimed at stabilising a vital infrastructure of freely available open science (OS) services, has just gained a key new … Read More
This week, a promising new initiative aimed at greatly accelerating the migration to a fully Open Access research environment in Europe was announced: Plan S. Backed by 11 national funding organisations … Read More
Six months past an initial funding appeal, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has surpassed a key half-million Euro milestone having received pledges for funding totaling 680,700 Euros. … Read More
SPARC Europe is pleased to announce that we are undertaking a new research initiative that will shed light on the various patterns of rewards and incentives being employed by funding organisations … Read More
On 28 June 2018, the first meeting of the European Open Education Librarian Network convened. Participants from Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK met to discuss a … Read More
Cambridge University together with SPARC Europe and Jisc are pleased to announce the winners of the first ever Data Management Engagement Award, a competition formed to spark new ideas for how … Read More
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the development of Open Data policies in Europe. But the content and nature of these varies greatly, as evidenced in our … Read More