Key OA benefits Researchers and their institutions benefit from having the widest possible audience Researchers provide their articles to publishers for free, because their compensation comes in the form of recognition … Read More
SPARC Europe’s strategic plan 2021-2024 (english | français | español) The scope SPARC Europe promotes and works for Open Science/Open Scholarship and Open Education in Europe. We focus on policy development … Read More
Research provides the foundation of modern society. Research leads to breakthroughs, and communicating the results of research is what allows us to turn breakthroughs into better lives—to provide new treatments for … Read More
SPARC Europe recently commissioned an opinion piece by Max Planck’s Ralf Schimmer on: . He claims, among other things, that there are sufficient resources in the current publishing system to make … Read More
SPARC Europe commissioned this toolkit to help those thinking of starting an OA journal. A business plan toolkit for OA journals addresses how to describe the business venture, the market context, how … Read More
Intelligence on university-based Open Access publishing commissioned by SPARC Europe in the Spring of 2015. Download it here