Open Access challenges
Challenges to be dealt with The need for researchers to maximise the dissemination and impact of their research; The need for readers to have access to the full corpus of relevant research … Read More
Tag: libraries
Our members
Our members provide us with focus and direction while ensuring that there is broad support for our strategy and initiatives. Austria University of Vienna (Universität Wien), Vienna University Library and Archive … Read More
What you can do for Open Access
Open Access brings opportunities to various stakeholders Libraries Libraries form the ultimate locus for pushing out the case for Open Access and address to universities, funders, research institutes and publishers. Librarians often … Read More
Our strategy
SPARC Europe’s strategic plan 2021-2024 (english | français | español) The scope SPARC Europe promotes and works for Open Science/Open Scholarship and Open Education in Europe. We focus on policy development … 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
Sustaining OA services for the future
Last week, SPARC Europe convened a meeting with a number of high-level stakeholders from the international funding, research and library communities to discuss how to sustain some of the world’s important OA … Read More
Bringing Europe’s Open Data Champions together
As part of its Open Scholars Programme, SPARC Europe looks forward to bringing together Open Data Champions from across Europe in the coming months. Who are the researchers who see making their data open … 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