SPARC2 - News & Media

SPARC provides comments on OSTP Memorandum on Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Articles

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:37:48 UT

UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:06:41 UT

Open-access scientific publishing

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:11:06 UT

The Economist, May 10, 2013

Education democratization

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:03:02 UT

The Daily Californian, Editorial, May 13, 2013
CAMPUS ISSUES: The university needs to ensure academic research is openly accessible to members of the general public regardless of status.

California Open Access Bill Clears Committee

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:12:14 UT

Library Journal, Meredith Schwartz, May 9, 2013

California Weighs Its Own Open Access Plan

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:21:52 UT

Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed

New York considers state-level public access legislation

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:24:01 UT

Illinois considers state-level public access policy

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:14:15 UT

Call to Action: Support the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:29:46 UT

New SPARC Community Resource on Article-Level Metrics

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:10:11 UT

By Greg Tananbaum

Today, SPARC released a new community resource delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used.

PeerJ launches PeerJ PrePrints -- a 'preprint server' for the biological and medical sciences

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:26:42 UT

April 3, 2013.

Creative Commons and the Openness of Open Access

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:25:53 UT

The New England Journal of Medicine, February 28, 2013.

Licence restrictions: A fool's errand

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:24:46 UT

Nature, March 27, 2013.

FASTR Act opens doors for reseach

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:22:20 UT

Collegiate Times, April 4, 2013

Knowledge Exchange Releases SPARC-sponsored Report on Strategies for Sustaining Open Access Resources

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:48:42 UT

By Raym Crow

Knowledge Exchange* has released “The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources,” the third report in its multiphase “Sustainability of Open Access Resources” initiative. The report, which was funded by SPARC, examines the practical planning issues relevant to the economic sustainability of infrastructure services that support the growth of the open-access dissemination of scholarly and scientific research.