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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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OER State Policy Playbook
Open EducationPolicy recommendations for state-level policymakers in the United States.
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Declaring Independence
Open AccessDeclaring Independence is an interactive, practical resource that editors can use to determine if open access is a realistic and desirable option for their journals. It contains a diagnostic to help editors understand issues pertaining to title ownership, flipping a journal vs. launching an...
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Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum
Open AccessSPARC provides a full set of resources to help you learn more about your rights as an author, and the tools that are available to help you effectively manage your copyrights.
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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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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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Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services
Open AccessCOAR and SPARC have developed seven good practice principles for scholarly communication services to ensure transparency, openness, and alignment with the aims of scholarship.
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Tracking and Understanding US Federal Article and Data-Sharing Requirements
Open Access · Open DataSPARC and Johns Hopkins University have partnered to create a web-based resource to help clarify the requirements for federal agency data management and public access plans.
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Alternative Publishing Models to Support Open Access
Open AccessSPARC actively supports investigating and experimenting with all of these methods, and to that end, provides planning resources, best practice guides, white papers, and financial and strategic planning consulting support for open-access initiatives.
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BOAI15: Toward the Internet of the Mind
Open AccessOn February 14, 2002, a small text of fewer than a thousand words quietly appeared on the Web: titled the “Budapest Open Access Initiative” (BOAI), it gave a public face to discussions between sixteen participants that had taken place on December 1 and 2, 2001 in Budapest, at the invitation of...
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