Latest News from SPARC
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Internalizing “Open for Whom?”: Unpacking the Connection Between Equity & Open
Open AccessAs this year’s Open Access Week kicks off, we at SPARC continue to grapple with the question at the heart of this year's theme: “Open for Whom?”. The questions of who is included and whose interests are prioritized must be central to our work in advancing open knowledge.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
Opening Up Reach of Libraries with Controlled Digital Lending
Open AccessOn a recent webinar, SPARC and the Internet Archive explored the concept of controlled digital lending as a strategy to expand library collections & increase accessibility. CDL offers a new model to make printed works available in digital form while protecting copyrighted material.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Caitlin Carter of Johns Hopkins Selected as SPARC VPO for Negotiations
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to welcome Caitlin Carter, Scholarly Communication and Open Access Policy Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, to our team as a visiting program officer focusing on negotiations.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Rachel Harding: Working with an Open Notebook Makes Me a Better Scientist
Open Access · Open DataRachel Harding is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto committed to using open research practices in her work to advance the understanding of Huntington's disease. Rachel joined the SPARC Steering Committee this year as its second early career researcher representative.
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
White House Releases Draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan
Open DataThe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released their long-awaited draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan which outlines the Administration’s concrete action plan for implementing the President’s Management Agenda priority to leverage data as a National Strategic Asset.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”
Open AccessThe theme for International Open Access Week 2019 will be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge" and focus on deepening our conversations about being inclusive by design and turning those conversations into action.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Investing in Open Scholarly Infrastructure: a Community Opportunity
Open Access · Open DataSPARC is excited to support the launch of a new effort, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), designed to increase the availability and sustainability of open knowledge infrastructure.
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Monday, March 25, 2019
Standing Up To Be A Force Of Change: Q&A with Joe Lucia of Temple University
Open AccessTemple University has joined the growing list of institutions to cancel their “Big Deal” journal subscription bundles with Elsevier. Here’s what Library Dean Joe Lucia has to say about the recent decision not to renew its bundled contract and the university’s approach going forward.
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