The SPARC Innovator Award is an initiative that recognizes an individual, institution, or group that exemplifies SPARC principles by working to challenge the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public. SPARC Innovators are featured on the SPARC Web site semi-annually.
- February 2020 | OpenStax
- June 2019 | AmeliCA
- January 2019 | Robert-Jan Smits
- June 2018 | OCSDnet
- January 2018 | BCCampus
- June 2017 | University of Pennsylvania’s Data Refuge Project
- January 2017 | ASAPbio
- June 2016 | RIO Journal
- January 2016 | David Wiley
- July 2015 | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- February 2015 | The Open Access Button: David Carroll & Joseph McArthur
- July 2014 | Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
- January 2014 | John Willinsky
- July 2013 | The Creators of DORA: The Declaration on Research Assessment
- January 2013 | Health Research Alliance
- July 2012 | The World Bank
- January 2012 | Michael Nielsen
- July 2011 | PLOS ONE
- January 2011 | Ventura R. Perez
- June 2010 | Authors of the Panton Principles – A Call for Open Data in Science
- January 2010 | Optical Society of America
- July 2009 | Mike Rossner
- January 2009 | R. Preston McAfee
- June 2008 | Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Addendum: Stanford University School of Education passes open access policy in wake of Harvard’s action - December 2007 | Agents of Change OF CHANGE – Student Activists for Open Access
- June 2007 | Ted & Carl Bergstrom
- December 2006 | Melissa Hagemann
- July 2006 | University of California
- April 2006 | Herbert Van de Sompel