A Plan S for Academic Books: Voices from the Community
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
Tag: licensing
New in-depth OA look at copyright and licensing practices among journal publishers
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
Licensing Framework
What is the best licensing framework for scholarly material? Briefing Sent out to SPARC Europe supporters on 15 August 2014 You will have noticed of late some activity around the issue … Read More
SPARC Europe documents
SPARC Europe papers SPARC Europe publishes briefing papers, position papers, opinion pieces and talking points to support the Open Access and Open Science communities on specific topics. We have published the following papers … Read More
Publishers taking OA action
Recommendations for publishers Promote the benefits of Open Access to your authors and readers Experiment with new journal titles and new forms of Open Access publishing Register your journal in the … Read More
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
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