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Friday, October 29, 2021
Equity is at Heart of Subscribe to Open Model
For years, advocates of Open Access have wrestled with how to disseminate scholarly research in an equitable and financially sustainable way
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Opening Knowledge and Building Structural Equity: This Week & Beyond
Open AccessThis year’s International Open Access Week theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the individual and collective action required in our approach, decisions, actions, and investments in knowledge sharing to ensure that equity is foundational.
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Celebrating 30 Years of arXiv and Its Lasting Legacy on Scientific Advancement
The idea of sharing preprints – the preliminary versions of scientific manuscripts before peer-review and publication in an academic journal—over the internet was a new concept in 1991 when Paul Ginsparg launched the preprint server arXiv.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Funders Group Hires New Fellow to Craft Best Practices for Equity in Grantmaking Process
SPARC welcomes Eunice Mercado-Lara as the new Open & Equitable Civic Science Fellow for the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG).
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Higher Education Reckons With Concerns Over Online Proctoring and Harm to Students
Open EducationWhen students’ homes became their classrooms during the pandemic, a dilemma arose about how to fairly monitor their academic progress.
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
2021 Open Access Week Theme to be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”
The 2021 Open Access Week Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 25-31, will be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
On a Mission to Make Federal Data Sets More Useful and Accessible
Open DataAlthough government agencies manage massive amounts of information, there is little known about exactly how it is used and by whom: Turns out, there is little data on federal data.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Civil Engineering Journal Incentivizes Authors to Provide Reproducible Results
The need to share reproducible research results is centrally important to the research enterprise.
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