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Friday, May 23, 2014
SPARC “Roadshow” Kicks Off With Five-Campus California Tour
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC has officially launched one of our most exciting and anticipated education programs of the year: a campus roadshow that will bring SPARC staff to campuses across North America to educate and energize librarians, students, faculty and others to advance Open Access, Open Education and Open ...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
SPARC Statement on House Committee markup of FIRST
Open AccessFollowing is a statement by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC), on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology markup of H.R. 4186, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act.
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Join SPARC Open Access Week Planning Webcast
Open AccessYou can join the webcast using the following URL: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=99435. If you haven't already, please register below so we have an accurate list of participants and can follow up with additional information. Join us on Monday, May 19th, at 2:30pm EDT (7:30pm BST) ...
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Monday, May 19, 2014
2014 Open Access Week Planning Kickoff
Open AccessOn Monday, May 19th, SPARC hosted a one-hour webcast to help kickoff planning for this year's International Open Access Week. The webcast featured a panel of experts who have organized successful Open Access Week events in years past. Each described their approach to celebrating the week, gave ...
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Launch of the Open Policy Network
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationAs an organization working on open access policy for more than a decade, we’ve seen the movement grow in so many positive ways — most notably, the number and diversity of organizations who are actively collaborating in this space. Today, I’m very pleased to announce SPARC’s participation in the ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
SPARC joins major international associations in support of immediate open access to research
Open AccessToday, SPARC, along with five international partner organizations, released a statement underscoring the importance of immediate, free access to the research of research. The full statement is below. To add your organization's support, please visit this site. Major international ...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
2014 Open Access Week Theme to be “Generation Open”
Open AccessNote: SPARC will host a kickoff webcast for Open Access Week planning on Monday, May 19, at 2:30pm EDT. Click here to register. For Immediate Release May 8, 2014 Contact: Nick Shockey 202-296-2296 nick [at] arl [dot] org 2014 International Open Access Week to Be Held In ...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
WHO commits to open access by joining Europe PubMed Central
Open AccessThe World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will become a member of the open access repository Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC), joining 25 other life sciences and biomedical research funders. The announcement is in preparation for the launch of the WHO open access policy on 1 ...
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