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: policy making
Discover how European funders are approaching Open policy and practices in new report
A report that reveals the Open Access and Open Science policies, incentives and practices of European funders is being released today. Based on a survey conducted in late spring, the report … Read More
Briefing: SPARC Europe analysis of the revised Plan S
A week-and-a-half ago, cOAlition S released an update of principles along with revised guidance on the implementation of Plan S, an initiative that launched in September 2018 and intends to make … Read More
Open Science essential for new Horizon Europe funding programme
SPARC Europe is pleased with the endorsement, on April 17, by the European Parliament (EP) of the Political Partial Agreement on Horizon Europe, the next research and innovation framework programme. Back … Read More
A new Copyright Legislation for Europe. How will this impact Open Access?
On March 26, the European Parliament adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, after several years of development and negotiations marked by intense lobbying from all sides. With … Read More
To gather insights into Open rewards and incentives, survey targets 200 European funders
This week, SPARC Europe, in consultation with ALLEA, The European Foundation Centre (EFC) and Science Europe, sent surveys to almost 200 funding bodies throughout Europe. The initiative is intended to garner … Read More
Evaluate your RDM Offering
An introduction: the Evaluating RDM Tool For institutions that have implemented an RDM policy, a natural next step is to evaluate one’s efforts. To that end, SPARC Europe has created a … Read More
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