Latest News from SPARC
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Friday, October 11, 2019
SPARC Receives Grant from Arcadia Trust
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $75,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Caitlin Carter of Johns Hopkins Selected as SPARC VPO for Negotiations
Open AccessSPARC is pleased to welcome Caitlin Carter, Scholarly Communication and Open Access Policy Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, to our team as a visiting program officer focusing on negotiations.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Rachel Harding: Working with an Open Notebook Makes Me a Better Scientist
Open Access · Open DataRachel Harding is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto committed to using open research practices in her work to advance the understanding of Huntington's disease. Rachel joined the SPARC Steering Committee this year as its second early career researcher representative.
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Friday, June 28, 2019
AmeliCA
Open Access · Open DataSPARC honors AmeliCA with its June 2019 Innovator Award as a shining example of what works with Open Access.
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
SPARC: Putting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion First
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationTo achieve SPARC’s vision for Open, the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) must be built into the core of the system we seek to foster, and they must be deliberately supported at the center of our own work.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”
Open AccessThe theme for International Open Access Week 2019 will be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge" and focus on deepening our conversations about being inclusive by design and turning those conversations into action.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Big Deal Knowledge Base
Open AccessSPARC's Big Deal Knowledge Base puts libraries on a more level playing field with vendors by detailing what thousands of peer institutions have paid for journal subscription packages.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
ACRL/SPARC Forum: Collective Reinvestment in Open Infrastructure
Open Access · Open DataLibraries are increasingly considering scaling back their subscriptions or cancelling big deals altogether. Yet, the question of how and where to reinvest the resources that become available is both far from settled and increasingly pressing. As we start to move away from the subscription ...
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