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Monday, November 29, 2021

SPARC Statement on UNESCO Ratification of Open Science Recommendation

Open Access   ·   Open Data

SPARC welcomes the unanimous ratification of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science during its 41st General Conference.  This action represents an enormous step forward towards creating a global knowledge sharing ecosystem that is both open and equitable by design.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

SPARC Releases 2021 Update to Landscape Analysis & Roadmap for Action

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

SPARC's 2021 Update to its comprehensive Landscape Analysis and accompanying Roadmap for Action, which provides an in-depth look at developments in the academic publishing market in the past year and their implications for higher education institutions.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

2021 Update to the SPARC Landscape Analysis & Roadmap for Action

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

SPARC's 2021 Update to its comprehensive Landscape Analysis and accompanying Roadmap for Action, which provides an in-depth look at developments in the academic publishing market in the past year and their implications for higher education institutions.

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Monday, September 20, 2021

SPARC Releases Results of Survey on the Impact of COVID

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

The SPARC COVID Impact Survey was undertaken to better understand academic libraries’ pandemic-related budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives.

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Friday, September 17, 2021

CORONA Project Demonstrates Value of Sharing Knowledge to Save Lives

Open Data

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Monday, September 13, 2021

Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Season 2 Debut

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast

Open Access   ·   Open Data   ·   Open Education

SPARC has partnered with the Knowledge Equity Lab to launch a new podcast called Unsettling Knowledge Inequities, which will explore issues related to the politics of knowledge production, exchange, and circulation as well as the structural, global power dynamics that shape it.

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

COAR & SPARC Welcome Tina Baich as Visiting Program Officer for Repository Network in the United States

Equitable Infrastructure   ·   Open Access   ·   Open Data

...we are delighted to announce that Tina Baich will be taking on the position as Visiting Program Officer for US Repository Network beginning on September 1, 2021.

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