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
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
Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of knowledge. Europe has seen a significant growth in activity to establish and advance open access (OA) policies over the last decade. However, copyright has been … Read More
SCOSS home SCOSS | Second Funding Cycle Three Open Science infrastructure services have been vetted by SCOSS and selected for our second funding cycle: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) … Read More
A report that reveals the Open Access and Open Science policies, incentives and practices of European funders is being released today. Based on a survey conducted in late spring, the report … Read More
A week-and-a-half ago, cOAlition S released an update of principles along with revised guidance on the implementation of Plan S, an initiative that launched in September 2018 and intends to make … Read More
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
This week, SPARC Europe, in consultation with ALLEA, The European Foundation Centre (EFC) and Science Europe, sent surveys to almost 200 funding bodies throughout Europe. The initiative is intended to garner … Read More
Taking concrete steps to make Open Access the default Continuing the push to make Open the default demands a multi-dimensional approach that takes into consideration the various stakeholders, from policy-makers to … Read More