Latest News from SPARC
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Monday, September 26, 2016
SPARC Applauds Senators Hatch and Bennet for Supporting OER in Career and Technical Education Innovation Bill
Open EducationSPARC issued the following statement commending Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Michael Bennett (D-CO) for including support for open educational resources (OER) in Section 3 of the Innovation for Tomorrow’s Workforce Act of 2016 (S. 3344).
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Monday, August 1, 2016
Academic publishing in transition
Open AccessHow higher ed is helping to bring about change in the age-old models of scholarly publishing.
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Supporting the Vice-President’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Open Access · Open DataEarlier today, Vice President Biden announced the launch of the Genomic Data Commons...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
EU’s Bold Open Science Recommendations Strike a Nerve
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
Theme of 2016 International Open Access Week to be “Open in Action”
Open AccessInternational Open Access Week has always been about action, and this year’s theme encourages all stakeholders to take concrete steps to make their own work more openly available and encourage others to do the same.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Hosted by SPARC, OpenCon 2016 to be held in Washington DC on November 12-14
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