COVID-19 and Open Science
Open Science in the era of the Coronavirus The Coronavirus crisis has undoubtedly shone a light on just how critical the implications of Open can be to society. While researchers world-over … Read More
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SPARC Europe gets behind IOI, a new effort to help secure Open infrastructure
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a new global initiative that, like SCOSS, aims to help secure the diverse constellation of services that collectively comprise Open infrastructure, recently launched. SPARC Europe, among … Read More
New SPARC Europe Board Members from 2018
New SPARC Europe Board Members for 2018 speak about their priorities Ms Marlène Delhaye, Head of the Open Access Unit and Head of the E-Resources Service, Aix Marseille University Academic Libraries, France … Read More
Towards large-scale transition to Open Access
SPARC Europe recently commissioned an opinion piece by Max Planck’s Ralf Schimmer on: . He claims, among other things, that there are sufficient resources in the current publishing system to make … Read More
SPARC Europe wins LIBER Innovation Award
SPARC Europe has won a Liber Innovation Award (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries). Vanessa Proudman received the award for the paper: Open Access depends on … Read More
Europe’s Open Access Champions launches
Creating the cultural change to embrace and implement Open Access is a tough nut to crack. Open Access champions from senior management and from the research community can help change the … Read More
Better ways to evaluate research and researchers: Briefing
SPARC Europe’s new briefing paper addresses the issue of research evaluation, which is at the core of scholarly communication. It looks at alternative metrics for the more effective assessment of research. … Read More
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