SPARC Europe highlights of 2022
We are very excited to announce the publication of our 2022 Annual Report. Last year was an eventful year for SPARC Europe, and we were pleased to reconnect with our network … Read More
Tag: open access
Open Science Fair 2023
OS Fair 2023 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver … Read More
A joint strategy to strengthen the European Repository Network just launched
Open science is ushering in a new paradigm for research, one in which all researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and … Read More
Project Retain Preliminary Findings: Rights Retention, Licensing & Copyright
Did you know that over 60 European higher education institutions have policies covering the copyright of research publications and almost 45 institutions either have or will soon have rights retention policies … Read More
Going into fourth gear: SCOSS launches its 4th pledging round
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported three pledging rounds for Open Science Infrastructures (OSIs) helping them secure a sustainable future. … Read More
LIBER 2023 Annual Conference
The 2023 LIBER Annual Conference will take place from the 5th – to the 7th of July at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. … Read More
New Project. DIAMAS, building capacity for OA diamond publishing
The institutional OA diamond publishing sector can be challenged by fragmentation; its visibility can be limited, its service of varying quality, and its sustainability is not always secure. A new European … Read More
Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of knowledge.
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
New project for SPARC Europe to reform rights retention and open licensing policies in Europe
SPARC Europe has been selected to deliver the first project sponsored under the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) programme. KR21 seeks to strengthen access to knowledge in particular through libraries and archives. … Read More