Sunday, January 3, 2016

Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum

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Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum

SPARC provides a full set of resources to help you learn more about your rights as an author, and the tools that are available to help you effectively manage your copyrights.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

OA 101 Round 2: Visibility & Impact, Problematizing “Predatory” Publishing, and Authors Rights

SPARC is excited to announce a second round of our Open Access 101 series, building on the significant response from the community to the first series hosted last year.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

OA 101: Who Owns Scholarly Work? Copyright and Open Access

Speaker: Dave Hansen, Executive Director, Author’s Alliance Who owns the copyright in scholarly work has been one of the most confusing, yet most important, legal questions in the move toward open access. While the answer might seem like it should be obvious (“authors!”), the reality is...

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

SPARC, Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access

Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s...

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Monday, October 19, 2015

SPARC Launches Open Access Evaluation Tool

SPARC Launches Open Access Evaluation Tool

New Website Quantitatively Documents Journals' Degrees of Openness

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

SPARC Backs Bill to Make College Textbooks More Affordable

SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to broaden access to academic knowledge, today applauded the introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015, which would reduce the cost of college textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Public Access Plan to Use PMC Platform for Articles

Yesterday, during the annual meeting of the NIH PubMed Central (PMC) National Advisory Committee, NIH staff noted that they were working to include Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-funded articles into the PMC database. It turns out that very quietly, in early March,

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Next Up for Agency Public Access Plans: NOAA

Next Up for Agency Public Access Plans: NOAA Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its plan to...

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Monday, April 6, 2015

NIST Releases Public Access Plan: Agency will Partner with NIH to use PMC Platform

NIST Releases Public Access Plan: Agency will Partner with NIH to use PMC Platform Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its...

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