Latest News from SPARC
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Framing Infrastructure Decisions with Shared Open Values
Open AccessThe IUPUI University Library has long been a champion of advancing Open. Last year, staff members decided to agree on what principles that would guide its investment in open scholarship and infrastructure moving forward.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Strong Community Response to Free Scholarly Article Access to Fight COVID-19
Open Access · Open DataImmediate, free open access to research results is vital to accelerating the global research community’s progress towards COVID-19 testing, treatments and vaccines. The NIH CORD-19 Dataset is advancing this work.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Inside the Collaborative Effort in Massachusetts to Advance OER
Open EducationMassachusetts offers an inspiring example of statewide collaboration on OER to benefit students. SPARC takes an inside look at how the state’s OER initiative developed and what it plans for the future.
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Monday, May 11, 2020
In Pursuit of Open Science, Open Access is Not Enough
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Friday, May 8, 2020
Open COVID Pledge Aims to Break Down Barriers to Innovation
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe Open COVID Pledge was launched in April 2020 to encourage organizations to make their patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against COVID-19.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Scholarly Publishers Join Forces to Fast-Track COVID-19 Studies
Open AccessWith the massive outpouring of research related to Covid-19, a group of scientific publishers and scholarly communications organisations has joined forces to help ensure these studies are reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible.
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Monday, May 4, 2020
Cengage/McGraw-Hill Merger Called Off
Open EducationTextbook publishing giants Cengage and McGraw-Hill have called off their planned merger amid widespread opposition and antitrust concerns.
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