Latest News from SPARC
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
A Great Development on the GREAT Act
Open Access · Open DataThe U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act.
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Friday, October 11, 2019
SPARC Receives Grant from Arcadia Trust
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $75,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
SPARC Statement on BASIC Research Act
Open AccessFollowing is a statement by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, on the introduction of the BASIC Research Act.
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Open Access Movement
Open Access2017 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
Virginia Steel Elected Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee
Washington, D.C. – Virginia Steel, the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian at UCLA, has been elected to the position of Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee. Steel has served as member of the Committee, which provides strategic advice and guidance to the SPARC staff, since ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
Prominent Funding Organizations Team Up to Launch Open Research Funders Group
Open AccessEight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Librarians Working Inside Out: An Open Access Week Interview
Open AccessI visited with Joseph at SPARC’s Washington, D.C., office for a wide-ranging conversation about past progress, the state of open access today, the road ahead, and how open access could change the role of academic librarians. Our discussion has been condensed and edited.
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Doubts About Data: 2016 Survey of Faculty Attitudes onTechnology
Open AccessMost faculty members say data-driven assessments and accountability efforts aren’t helping them improve the quality of teaching and learning at their colleges and universities, according to the 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology.
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