Latest News from SPARC
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Caitlin Carter of Johns Hopkins Selected as SPARC VPO for Negotiations
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to welcome Caitlin Carter, Scholarly Communication and Open Access Policy Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, to our team as a visiting program officer focusing on negotiations.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Expanding the Scope: Illustrating the Impact of OER
Open EducationSPARC's recent webcast discussed how OER can achieve the important benefits of open pedagogy, accessibility, sustainability, equity, and inclusion—moving the conversation beyond affordability alone.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
SPARC Urges Department of Justice to Block Merger Between Cengage and McGraw-Hill
Open EducationSPARC submitted a detailed filing to the U.S. Department of Justice urging federal antitrust enforcers to block the proposed merger between college textbook publishing giants Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education.
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
SPARC Welcomes 2019-2020 Open Education Leadership Fellows
Open EducationSPARC is thrilled to welcome our third cohort to the Open Education Leadership Program. The cohort is comprised of 27 fellows from a diverse group of institutions spanning 17 states and provinces.
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Monday, July 29, 2019
Q&A: Cengage/McGraw-Hill Merger
Open EducationAs opposition mounts against a merger between the second and third largest textbook publishers, SPARC provides answers to common questions and an update on what we are doing to stop it.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Rachel Harding: Working with an Open Notebook Makes Me a Better Scientist
Open Access · Open DataRachel Harding is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto committed to using open research practices in her work to advance the understanding of Huntington's disease. Rachel joined the SPARC Steering Committee this year as its second early career researcher representative.
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
SPARC: Putting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion First
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationTo achieve SPARC’s vision for Open, the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) must be built into the core of the system we seek to foster, and they must be deliberately supported at the center of our own work.
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
White House Releases Draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan
Open DataThe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released their long-awaited draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan which outlines the Administration’s concrete action plan for implementing the President’s Management Agenda priority to leverage data as a National Strategic Asset.
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