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. 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
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. The next conference (2022) will be the seventeenth Munin … Read More
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
SPARC Europe is thrilled to be a part of the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) project which launched today. Stichting IFLA Foundation signed an agreement for a €3m Arcadia grant to launch … Read More
At the end of March 2021, the Open Access Books Network (OABN), of which SPARC Europe is one of the founding organizations, kicked off the series of workshops Voices from the … Read More
“For so many years researchers have been confused about what they can and can’t do with respect to copyright …We can make the life of the author easier!”: these were some … Read More
The OA Diamond Study: Q&A Webinar Why? To provide a forum where questions on the OA Diamond Journals Study’s recommendations can be asked and discussed To facilitate discussion on the OA … Read More
A newly-published report on the OA diamond journals shines light on a community-driven open access publishing model and provides recommendations that could help the model flourish. It is the first study … Read More