Latest News from SPARC
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
SPARC Roadmap for Action
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe Roadmap for Action is intended to inform discussions on ensuring academic institutions control their data and data infrastructure.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Community-Owned Infrastructure
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationTo help inform our members and the broader community regain and maintain community ownership over data and data infrastructure.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
A Great Development on the GREAT Act
Open Access · Open DataThe U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act.
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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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Thursday, June 6, 2019
White House Releases Draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan
Open DataThe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released their long-awaited draft Federal Data Strategy Action Plan which outlines the Administration’s concrete action plan for implementing the President’s Management Agenda priority to leverage data as a National Strategic Asset.
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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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