Latest News from SPARC
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Friday, December 6, 2019
Making it easier to be open: Johns Hopkins engineers innovative platform for repositories
Open AccessPASS is fundamentally an attempt to leverage existing incentives and reduce friction so people that participate in open publishing. With PASS, researchers can eventually also simultaneously deposit into their institutional platform, society platform or pre-print server.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
SPARC Releases Roadmap for Higher Education Institutions to Counter Industry’s Growing Control Over Academic Data and Analytics
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC's new Roadmap for Action recommends individual and collective actions for institutions to ensure control of their data and data infrastructure.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
A Great Development on the GREAT Act
Open Access · Open DataThe U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act.
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Internalizing “Open for Whom?”: Unpacking the Connection Between Equity & Open
Open AccessAs this year’s Open Access Week kicks off, we at SPARC continue to grapple with the question at the heart of this year's theme: “Open for Whom?”. The questions of who is included and whose interests are prioritized must be central to our work in advancing open knowledge.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
Opening Up Reach of Libraries with Controlled Digital Lending
Open AccessOn a recent webinar, SPARC and the Internet Archive explored the concept of controlled digital lending as a strategy to expand library collections & increase accessibility. CDL offers a new model to make printed works available in digital form while protecting copyrighted material.
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Friday, October 11, 2019
SPARC Receives Grant from Arcadia Trust
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $75,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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Monday, September 30, 2019
SPARC Releases Connect OER Annual Report for 2018-2019
Open EducationThe data from our 2018-2019 report encompasses 132 institutions spanning 44 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces who participate in Connect OER. The data underlying this report was collected through the Connect OER platform between July 2017 and August 2019.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
A Look at Community Colleges Leading the Way on OER
Open EducationCommunity colleges have been at the heart of the open educational resources (OER) movement from the very beginning. We highlight some of the outstanding work happening at community colleges in the SPARC network.
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