Popular Resources
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Open Investment Statements and Principles
Open AccessThe Strategic Priorities Working Group of SPARC's Negotiation Community of Practice has created a repository of existing open investment statements, rubrics, and principles to help the community learn from one another’s experiences and practices.
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Strategies for Effectively Engaging Stakeholders in Negotiations
The Campus Planning and Partnerships Working Group of the SPARC Negotiation Community of Practice offers this curated selection of sharable resources that libraries can use to help initiate and guide local conversations.
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Recommendations for Providing Alternative Access After a Big Deal Cancellation
This resource explores the provision of alternative means of access as part of SPARC’s efforts to help member libraries save money and secure better deals in negotiations with publishers.
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2021 Update to the SPARC Landscape Analysis & Roadmap for Action
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC'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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Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC 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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Data Analysis for Negotiation
Open AccessThe Data Analysis Working Group of SPARC's Negotiation Community of Practice has collaboratively developed the resources linked below to support libraries in better leveraging data in negotiations with publishers.
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Automatic Textbook Billing Contract Library
Open EducationExplore the fine print of legal agreements between institutions and major vendors for automatic textbook billing programs.
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SPARC Member Badges
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC offers a set of badges that member libraries and organizations are welcome to add to their websites.
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Controlled Digital Lending
Open Access · Open EducationRooted in the fair use right of US Copyright Act, Controlled Digital Lending is the digital equivalent of traditional physical library lending—a library can digitize a book it owns and lend out a secured digital version to one user at a time, in place of the physical item.
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