Latest News from SPARC
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Lauren Kane Explores New Possibilities with Open and Partnerships at Helm of BioOne
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Thursday, October 6, 2022
Open for Antiracism Faculty Training Program Shows Promising Results
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Friday, September 30, 2022
Statement by Library Futures and SPARC on Wiley E-Textbook Withdrawal
In late August, Wiley Publishing Company abruptly withdrew 1,379 multidisciplinary titles from Proquest. Library Futures and SPARC strongly condemn this action by Wiley, which seriously hinders students’ access to equitable, affordable course materials.
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Subscribe-to-Open Community of Practice Statement on the OSTP ‘Nelson Memo’
Open AccessThe Subscribe to Open (S2O) Community of Practice is an informal collective of over forty pro-open publishers, libraries, consortia, funders, service providers, and other stakeholders committed to providing equitable and economically sustainable OA publishing. The S2O Community of Practice welcomes
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Monday, September 12, 2022
Welcome to the Open Education Leadership Program 2022-2023 Fellows!
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Thursday, September 8, 2022
Briana O’Neal Hired as Open Education Conference Manager
SPARC welcomes Briana O’Neal as our new Open Education Conference Manager. In this new role she is responsible for coordinating logistics of the annual Open Education Conference as well as supporting its board of directors and community.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
April Hathcock Elected Chair of SPARC Steering Committee
Washington, D.C. – April Hathcock, Director of Scholarly Communications and Information Policy at New York University Libraries, has been elected to the position of Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee.
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Thursday, September 1, 2022
Climate Change Urgency Prompts Efforts to Partner with Open Community
Open Access · Open DataSolving the world’s biggest problems requires collaboration. As the devastating impact of climate change intensifies, there is a growing recognition that researchers working on the issue from diverse angles need to quickly and freely share knowledge in order to make progress.
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