SPARC Projects
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Community-Owned Infrastructure
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationTo help inform our members and the broader community regain and maintain community ownership over data and data infrastructure.
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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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International Open Access Week
Open AccessInternational Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2024) is an opportunity for advocates to engage their communities to teach them about the benefits of Open Access, share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and help inspire wider participation in making open the new norm in research.
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Open Education Leadership Program
Open EducationSPARC's intensive two-semester professional development program to empower leaders for open education.
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Right to Research Coalition
Open AccessThe Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) is an international alliance of more than 90 undergraduate and graduate student organizations in over 100 countries around the world, that work to promote openness in research through advocacy and education.
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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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SPARC Innovator Award
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe 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.
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Privacy and Surveillance Community of Practice
The Privacy and Surveillance Community of Practice is an initiative of SPARC to support libraries in better understanding emerging privacy risks and in taking action to mitigate these threats.
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Negotiations Community of Practice
The Negotiations Community of Practice works to meaningfully address information asymmetries between libraries and vendors, to support libraries in negotiating better deals and unbundling from big deal packages, and to better align collections spending with library values.
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SPARC Research Data Sharing Policy Initiative
Open DataThe SPARC Research Data Sharing Policy Initiative is developing a channel for productive, ongoing collaboration among funders and stakeholders to shape academy friendly research data sharing policies for research data across and between disciplines as they are being developed and implemented.
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