During the autumn of 2020, SPARC Europe published a series of interviews with ten leaders of OS infrastructure to shed light on the choices and challenges scholarly communication infrastructure have when … Read More
A healthy Open infrastructure is essential to Open Science. Yet, there’s much to learn about the disparate services and resources that collectively comprise this infrastructure if we are to secure it. … Read More
Research and scholarship is underpinned by a variety of tools, technologies and services ranging from for-profit commercial solutions and offerings from vendors to community-owned, open technologies and infrastructure. We often … Read More
SPARC Europe aims to enable an OS infrastructure to emerge and thrive by making concerted efforts to explore how we as a community can better sustain it. For the past few years, … Read More
Calling all European Open Access and Open Science/Scholarship services/resources: SPARC Europe needs your help in mapping and establishing a core understanding of Europe’s current field of Open resources, many of which … Read More
SCOSS reached another major milestone this week with the announcement by France’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation that The French Open Science Committee has decided to grant €450,000 to … Read More
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), of which SPARC Europe is a founding member, is launching its second funding cycle; three vetted “vital open infrastructure” services are being … Read More
SCOSS home SCOSS | Second Funding Cycle Three Open Science infrastructure services have been vetted by SCOSS and selected for our second funding cycle: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) … Read More
Six months past an initial funding appeal, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has surpassed a key half-million Euro milestone having received pledges for funding totaling 680,700 Euros. … Read More