Latest News from SPARC
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Timeliness of Open Education Comes into Focus at OpenEd24
Open EducationMembers of the open education community gathered in Providence, Rhode Island, and online October 8-10 to celebrate past progress, share current trends, and look at how to best forge ahead together in the future.
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Monday, November 4, 2024
“Community over Commercialization” Theme Galvanizes Action for Second Year
Open AccessFor a second year in a row, “Community over Commercialization” proved to be a powerful galvanizing theme for International Open Access Week, held on October 21-27, 2024.
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Reclaiming Control: Privacy, Platforms, AI, & Governance in the Public Interest
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationWe have the opportunity to accelerate progress toward systems of sharing knowledge that are open by default and equitable by design, and to do so, we must engage with the rapid changes to the digital environment that intersect with knowledge sharing systems.
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Deepening Our Efforts to Prioritize Community over Commercialization
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
SPARC Releases Second Vendor Privacy Report Urging Action to Address Concerns with SpringerLink Data Privacy Practices
Open AccessSPARC's second vendor privacy analysis, Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s SpringerLink, documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards.
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Arcadia Provides SPARC With Key Support Through 2030
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a 6-year grant from Arcadia that will extend SPARC’s work on policies and practices that ensure immediate, equitable, and free sharing of research articles and data, and to maximize the equity gains enabled by open access to research.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Authors Alliance and SPARC Supporting Legal Pathways to Open Access for Scholarly Works
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Introducing Danny Anderson, President Emeritus, Trinity University and Special Advisor to HELIOS Open
Danny Anderson joins HELIOS Open as Special Advisor and Executive Council Chair, leading a group of presidents and provosts invested in guiding HELIOS Open’s work to support incentives reform to explicitly reward open science and scholarship.
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