Latest News from SPARC
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Introducing InclusiveAccess.org
Open EducationInclusiveAccess.org is a community-driven initiative to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
SPARC Releases 2021 Update to Landscape Analysis & Roadmap for Action
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC's 2021 Update to its comprehensive Landscape Analysis and accompanying Roadmap for Action, which provides an in-depth look at developments in the academic publishing market in the past year and their implications for higher education institutions.
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Monday, September 20, 2021
SPARC Releases Results of Survey on the Impact of COVID
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe SPARC COVID Impact Survey was undertaken to better understand academic libraries’ pandemic-related budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Funders Group Hires New Fellow to Craft Best Practices for Equity in Grantmaking Process
SPARC welcomes Eunice Mercado-Lara as the new Open & Equitable Civic Science Fellow for the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG).
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Monday, September 13, 2021
Welcome to the Open Education Leadership Program 2021-2022 Fellows!
Open EducationSPARC is pleased to welcome the class of 2021-2022 to the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program!
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
COAR & SPARC Welcome Tina Baich as Visiting Program Officer for Repository Network in the United States
Equitable Infrastructure · Open Access · Open Data...we are delighted to announce that Tina Baich will be taking on the position as Visiting Program Officer for US Repository Network beginning on September 1, 2021.
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Higher Education Reckons With Concerns Over Online Proctoring and Harm to Students
Open EducationWhen students’ homes became their classrooms during the pandemic, a dilemma arose about how to fairly monitor their academic progress.
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
2021 Open Access Week Theme to be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”
The 2021 Open Access Week Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 25-31, will be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”
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