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Monday, November 29, 2021
SPARC Statement on UNESCO Ratification of Open Science Recommendation
Open Access · Open DataSPARC welcomes the unanimous ratification of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science during its 41st General Conference. This action represents an enormous step forward towards creating a global knowledge sharing ecosystem that is both open and equitable by design.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Trampling on Green in a Rush for Gold
Open AccessA review of the data and methodology underlying a recent Springer Nature white paper on purported benefits of hybrid open access raise serious concerns about the veracity of its conclusion as well as the ultimate goal of the document.
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Monday, November 15, 2021
Promising Plans for Latest Round of Federal Open Textbook Grant Awards
Open EducationThis summer, the U.S. Department of Education awarded the latest round of grants through its Open Textbook Pilot program, funding nine new projects at colleges and universities across the country.
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Thursday, November 11, 2021
2021 Open Access Week Highlights Individual and Collective Action Needed to Achieve Equity
Open AccessFrom blog posts to podcasts and panel discussions, people around the world were inspired during International Open Access Week 2021 to reflect on efforts to build structural equity into the knowledge production process.
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Friday, October 29, 2021
Equity is at Heart of Subscribe to Open Model
For years, advocates of Open Access have wrestled with how to disseminate scholarly research in an equitable and financially sustainable way
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Opening Knowledge and Building Structural Equity: This Week & Beyond
Open AccessThis year’s International Open Access Week theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the individual and collective action required in our approach, decisions, actions, and investments in knowledge sharing to ensure that equity is foundational.
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Celebrating 30 Years of arXiv and Its Lasting Legacy on Scientific Advancement
The idea of sharing preprints – the preliminary versions of scientific manuscripts before peer-review and publication in an academic journal—over the internet was a new concept in 1991 when Paul Ginsparg launched the preprint server arXiv.
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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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