This helper includes key resources on rights retention for institutions and researchers: including examples of rights retention policies, support documents and guidelines and a key reading list. EXAMPLES OF RIGHTS RETENTION … Read More
This year’s theme will be — Come together! Enabling Collaboration and Inclusivity in Research Libraries. The event will bring together up to 150 attendees for one and a half days of … Read More
Themes for the conferences have always been some aspect of scholarly/scientific publishing and communication, with “open” as an important aspect. The Munin audience has partly been librarians working on OA and … Read More
Vacancy: Open Science and Education Communication and Engagement Leader SPARC Europe is one of Europe’s key and long-standing voices advocating for unfettered open access to research and education — for the … Read More
The DIAMAS project has just launched a survey which is of high relevance to the future of Open Access! DIAMAS supports Open Access Diamond and institutional publishing by setting new standards, … Read More
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
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
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
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