Our strategy
SPARC Europe’s Strategy 2025-2028 The vision Our vision is that European education and research are open by default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and for society as a … Read More
SPARC Europe’s Strategy 2025-2028 The vision Our vision is that European education and research are open by default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and for society as a … Read More
Taking action to make Data Open or FAIR Our efforts around Open / FAIR Data centre on arming policy-makers with the information they need, providing much-needed guidance on multiple fronts – … Read More
Taking concrete steps to make Open Access the default Continuing the push to make Open the default demands a multi-dimensional approach that takes into consideration the various stakeholders, from policy-makers to … Read More
We are looking for Open Data influencers At SPARC Europe we believe that changing policy and cultural change go hand in hand to make ‘Open’ the default. As part of that, SPARC … Read More
SPARC Europe just published a briefing paper on how open data is proving to have a positive effect on research impact in certain disciplines so far. Download the .
Study Atchison A & Bull J (2015) Will OA get me cited? An analysis of the efficacy of Open Access publishing in Political Science. PS: Political Science & Politics, (forthcoming). Disciplinary … Read More
SPARC Europe papers SPARC Europe publishes briefing papers, position papers, opinion pieces and talking points to support the Open Access and Open Science communities on specific topics. We have published the following papers … Read More
A selection of our policy and advocacy resources to share and re-use Annual Report SPARC Europe 2023 Annual Report Facilitating knowledge exchange Council of National Open Science Coordinators (CoNOSC) Open Access Books Network … Read More