Latest News from SPARC
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Monday, August 4, 2014
US Department of Energy frees up access to research
Open Access · Open DataThe US Department of Energy (DOE) has revealed today how papers from research it funds will become free to read, making it the first federal agency to respond to new standards for open access and data-sharing ordered by the White House 18 months ago.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
SPARC responds to the Department of Energy’s Public Access Plan
Open Access · Open DataFor Immediate Release Contact: Ranit Schmelzer, 202.538.1065 [email protected] SPARC Statement on the Department of Energy’s Plan for Increasing Public Access to the Results of Federally-Funded Research Washington, DC – Following is a statement by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Open Access: effective measures to put UK research online under threat?
Open AccessThe universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Open Access papers ‘gain more traffic and citations’
Open AccessOpen Access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
SPARC responds to RFI issued by the Dept. of Education
Open EducationSPARC believes that Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a new model for disseminating knowledge that takes full advantage of the digital environment. OER are distributed freely online under an open license that grants blanket permission for full reuse rights to the public. Users are free to sha
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
EIFL Champions Open Access for Libraries in Developing and Transition Countries
Open AccessFor its work in putting libraries from Africa to Asia and Europe at the center of the movement to democratize access to information, and increasing the visibility of scholarly research, SPARC has recognized EIFL with its July 2014 Innovator Award
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
SPARC and the World Bank to co-host kickoff event for 2014 International Open Access Week
Open AccessOn Monday, October 20th, from 3:00 to 4:00pm EDT, SPARC and the World Bank will co-host the official kickoff event for International Open Access Week 2014 with a reception to follow. The event will be held at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC with a live webcast for online ...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
College Textbooks Don’t Need to Break the Bank: 10 Tips to Save You Money
Open EducationThis piece originally appeared on The Huffington Post. With the summer now halfway over, students and their parents are looking ahead to college in the fall. In addition to budgeting for rising tuition costs, students are facing ever-increasing costs for their textbooks. Over the past ...
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