By invitation, SPARC Europe recently attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access. Participants reflected on the current diamond OA publishing system and how to develop and sustain a solid scholar-led … 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
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
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 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
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
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