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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, October 5, 2021

Introducing InclusiveAccess.org

Open Education

InclusiveAccess.org is a community-driven initiative to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

SPARC Releases 2021 Update to Landscape Analysis & Roadmap for Action

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

SPARC's 2021 Update to its comprehensive Landscape Analysis and accompanying Roadmap for Action, which provides an in-depth look at developments in the academic publishing market in the past year and their implications for higher education institutions.

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Monday, September 20, 2021

SPARC Releases Results of Survey on the Impact of COVID

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

The SPARC COVID Impact Survey was undertaken to better understand academic libraries’ pandemic-related budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives.

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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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Monday, September 13, 2021

Welcome to the Open Education Leadership Program 2021-2022 Fellows!

Open Education

SPARC is pleased to welcome the class of 2021-2022 to the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program!

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

COAR & SPARC Welcome Tina Baich as Visiting Program Officer for Repository Network in the United States

Equitable Infrastructure   ·   Open Access   ·   Open Data

...we are delighted to announce that Tina Baich will be taking on the position as Visiting Program Officer for US Repository Network beginning on September 1, 2021.

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Friday, August 27, 2021

Higher Education Reckons With Concerns Over Online Proctoring and Harm to Students

Open Education

When students’ homes became their classrooms during the pandemic, a dilemma arose about how to fairly monitor their academic progress.

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