Latest News from SPARC
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Internalizing “Open for Whom?”: Unpacking the Connection Between Equity & Open
Open AccessAs this year’s Open Access Week kicks off, we at SPARC continue to grapple with the question at the heart of this year's theme: “Open for Whom?”. The questions of who is included and whose interests are prioritized must be central to our work in advancing open knowledge.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
Opening Up Reach of Libraries with Controlled Digital Lending
Open AccessOn a recent webinar, SPARC and the Internet Archive explored the concept of controlled digital lending as a strategy to expand library collections & increase accessibility. CDL offers a new model to make printed works available in digital form while protecting copyrighted material.
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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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