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
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
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
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