Latest News from SPARC
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Friday, November 14, 2025
International Open Access Week 2025 Highlights from Discussion on Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”
Open AccessInternational Open Access Week 2025 sparked global conversations and collaborations around reclaiming community control of scholarly knowledge and infrastructure, highlighting growing momentum for sustainable, non-commercial open access models.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies
Open AccessThis resource provides researchers with guidance and options at different points in the research lifecycle that they might consider as they are navigating federal agency public access requirements and publisher policies.
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Monday, October 20, 2025
Reasserting Community Control Over Who Owns Our Knowledge
Open AccessInternational Open Access Week 2025 brings together global conversations and events exploring how communities can reclaim control over scholarly knowledge, research infrastructure, and open access in an era of commercialization and AI-driven change.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
SPARC Responds to Senate’s “Ten Times Faster” Science Initiative
Open AccessThe American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking recommendations on mechanisms to help achieve ASAP’s main objectives. SPARC's full response to the RFI, including detailed appendices addressing each pillar, is available here.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
The American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP)
Open AccessThe sponsors of the American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP), a bipartisan Senate initiative that aims to make American science "ten times faster" by 2030, issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking recommendations on mechanisms to help achieve ASAP’s main objectives. SPARC's full response...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Theme for Open Access Week 2025 Asks “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”
Open AccessThe theme of International Open Access Week for 2025 asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce.
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Monday, May 5, 2025
SPARC Webcast: OA, Attribution, and Addressing Faculty AI Concerns
Open AccessAs AI adoption accelerates, authors have growing concerns over maintaining control of their own work that may reduce their willingness to share their research openly. Publisher licensing deals with AI companies and instances of these same companies using scholarly content without permission ...
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