The DIAMAS project is developing a financial self-assessment tool for institutional publishers and service providers (IPSPs). It has been developed by WP5, which SPARC Europe leads. We look forward to launching … Read More
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
The OpCit project has for many years kept a list of studies up to date on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles. SPARC Europe then updated it in 2015 here: List … Read More
This page requires a modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer 9+). How Open is Your Research? A Checklist for Institutions This checklist is designed to enable research … Read More
As part of its Open Scholars Programme, SPARC Europe looks forward to bringing together Open Data Champions from across Europe in the coming months. Who are the researchers who see making their data open … Read More
SPARC Europe has won a Liber Innovation Award (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries). Vanessa Proudman received the award for the paper: Open Access depends on … Read More
Creating the cultural change to embrace and implement Open Access is a tough nut to crack. Open Access champions from senior management and from the research community can help change the … Read More