Latest News from SPARC
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Vice President Biden Calls for Open Access, Open Data, & New Research Incentives for Cancer Research
Open Access · Open DataLaunched by the Administration in January of this year, the $1 billion Cancer Moonshot initiative aims to achieve ten years worth of progress in cancer research in half that time. Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to ...
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Monday, April 18, 2016
SPARC & Johns Hopkins University Libraries Launch Resource Analyzing US Federal Data Sharing Policies
Open DataSPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Libraries, is pleased to release a new resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal funder research data sharing policies. This free tool, launched today at ...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
In Science, Inspiration Can Come From Unlikely Places
Open Access · Open DataA mom reached out to a scientist with a novel idea for an experiment. Years later, her hunch has blossomed into a published scientific study.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Why Is It So Expensive to Read Academic Research?
Open AccessThe serials pricing crisis has been busting academic libraries’ budgets—and creating ever-widening information gaps between rich and poor countries—since the 1970s, when subscription prices to academic journals first started rising faster than the rate of inflation.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Philanthropic Organizations Convened to Discuss Open Access Expansion
Open AccessIn October 2015, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) convened a meeting to catalyze dialogue about opportunities for philanthropic organizations to expand their understanding and implementation of open access.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Science of the Tax-Dollar Double Dip
Open AccessMuch research is federally funded, but if you want to see what you paid for, that’s going to cost you—again.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free.
Open AccessResearchers sign over the copyright and provide their work, often taxpayer-funded, free to publishers who get other researchers to review the papers — also free. The publishers sell journal subscriptions — some titles cost more than $5,000 a year — back to universities and the federal...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
Taking the online medicine
Open AccessOld-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
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