Latest News from SPARC
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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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Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Sarah Lamdan, Expert on Library Vendors’ Surveillance Activities, Joins SPARC as Senior Fellow
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC is pleased to welcome Sarah Lamdan as a Senior Fellow. Lamdan will work closely with the SPARC team to support members in better understanding vendors’ growing surveillance activities, in tracking new developments related to surveillance, and in taking steps to address these threats.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
On a Mission to Make Federal Data Sets More Useful and Accessible
Open DataAlthough government agencies manage massive amounts of information, there is little known about exactly how it is used and by whom: Turns out, there is little data on federal data.
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