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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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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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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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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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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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Campus Open Access Funds
Open AccessSPARC supports experimentation with open-access funds across institutions of all shapes and sizes. By making it easier for their authors to publish in open-access journals, institutions with open-access funds foster experimentation with new and innovative publishing models across the research...
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HowOpenIsIt? A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals
Open AccessThis guide provides a means to identify the core components of Open Access and how they are implemented across the spectrum between “Open Access” and “Closed Access.”
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SPARC Policy Talking Points
To help ensure that our member libraries can stay up-to-date and help to educate their colleagues on campus on issues of importance, SPARC regularly provides comprehensive "talking point" documents for this purpose.
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Campus Open Access Policies
Open AccessIf you are considering a campus open-access policy or already have one in development, SPARC can help with resources to support data-driven, community-engaging, and successful open-access policy development at institutions everywhere.
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