Latest News from SPARC
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Deepening Our Efforts to Prioritize Community over Commercialization
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
SPARC Releases Second Vendor Privacy Report Urging Action to Address Concerns with SpringerLink Data Privacy Practices
Open AccessSPARC's second vendor privacy analysis, Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s SpringerLink, documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Open Access 101 Series
Open AccessSPARC collaborated with the the team behind the Scholarly Communication Notebook (Josh Bolick, Maria Bonn, and Will Cross) to host a four-part series meant to provide an entry point to OA work in libraries as well as a refresher for those already doing this work.
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Arcadia Provides SPARC With Key Support Through 2030
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a 6-year grant from Arcadia that will extend SPARC’s work on policies and practices that ensure immediate, equitable, and free sharing of research articles and data, and to maximize the equity gains enabled by open access to research.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
OA 101 Session 4: Faculty FAQs: Answering Common Questions from Scholars
Open AccessThis session will present common recurring questions related to OA and discuss potential responses. Ahead of OA Week, this fourth OA 101 event will seek to help prepare librarians to anticipate concerns, objections, and trouble areas in order to be even better prepared with helpful answers—or ...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
NIH RFI: Draft Public Access Policy & Guidance
Open AccessSPARC submitted comments on NIH's draft public access policy and guidance implementing the 2022 OSTP Memo.
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Monday, August 5, 2024
Advancing Justice, from Open Access to Reparations for Ukraine
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
COAPI Community Annual Meeting
Open AccessDuring the Annual Meeting we will: * Thank departing and welcome new Steering Committee members * Review activities of the past year * Hear from Working Groups * Solicit suggestions from members and friends Meeting Agenda Linked Here Click Here to Register
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