SPARC Europe highlights of 2022
We are very excited to announce the publication of our 2022 Annual Report. Last year was an eventful year for SPARC Europe, and we were pleased to reconnect with our network … Read More
Tag: sustainability
A Plan S for Academic Books: Voices from the Community
cOAlition S will issue its policy on Open Access (OA) monographs and chapters in late 2021. As part of a strategy to gather opinions and OA book policy priorities from the … Read More
Insights into the sustainability choices of ten key OS infrastructure
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
New interview series on the sustainability journeys of key Open infrastructure
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
10 Key Interviews
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
Sustaining European Open Science Infrastructure
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
Scoping the OA and OS Infrastructure landscape in Europe
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
The French Open Science Committee makes record-breaking SCOSS pledge
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
DOAB and OAPEN, PKP and OpenCitations latest services to earn SCOSS recommendation
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