This helper includes key resources on rights retention for institutions and researchers: including examples of rights retention policies, support documents and guidelines and a key reading list. EXAMPLES OF RIGHTS RETENTION … Read More
The DIAMAS project has just launched a survey which is of high relevance to the future of Open Access! DIAMAS supports Open Access Diamond and institutional publishing by setting new standards, … Read More
Did you know that over 60 European higher education institutions have policies covering the copyright of research publications and almost 45 institutions either have or will soon have rights retention policies … Read More
At SPARC Europe, we are keen to better understand the topic of copyright for Open Access at research institutions across Europe. We are therefore calling for European academic institutions to complete … Read More
SPARC Europe is pleased to announce that we are among a consortium of organisations just awarded a COAlition S / Science Europe project to conduct a study to explore Diamond (non-APC) … Read More
International coalition joins together to halt potentially harmful copyright reform Efforts target key lawmakers BACKGROUND | ISSUE BRIEFS & POSITION PAPERS | THE OPEN LETTER | CONTACT BACKGROUND SPARC Europe … Read More
SPARC Europe just published a briefing paper on how open data is proving to have a positive effect on research impact in certain disciplines so far. Download the .
The OpCit project has for many years kept a list of studies up to date on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles. SPARC Europe then updated it in 2015 here: List … Read More
A selection of our policy and advocacy resources to share and re-use Annual Report SPARC Europe 2023 Annual Report Facilitating knowledge exchange Council of National Open Science Coordinators (CoNOSC) Open Access Books Network … Read More