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Experts Meeting on the UNESCO Open Access Strategy
29 November, 2011 - Open Access Forum 2011
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Sharing knowledge: EC-funded projects on scientific information in the digital age
20 November, 2011 - Conclusions of a strategic workshop, Brussels, 14-15 February 2011 Rapporteur, Caroline Sutton
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Lars Bjørnshauge Appointed Interim Director SPARC Europe
24 October, 2011 - Lars Bjørnshauge has been appointed to the role of Interim Director for SPARC Europe
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SPARC Europe Annual Meeting in Barcelona
31 August, 2011 - Presentations are now available!
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Sixth SPARC Europe Award
30 June, 2011 - EIFL Open Access Program wins the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
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The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
17 June, 2011 - The presentation of the LERU Roadmap towards Open Access
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OpenAccess.se Statement approved by the Steering committee for OpenAccess.se on 23 May 2011
16 June, 2011 - OpenAccess.se shows concern about Elsevier’s Open Access Policy
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SPARC Europe at Public Hearing on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Data
29 May, 2011 - SPARC Europe presents Statement on Open Access at EC Public Hearing on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Data
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SPARC Europe response to EC Green Paper on a common strategic framework for EU
24 May, 2011 - SPARC Europe has submitted a written response to the EC Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation funding.
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First Annual European Student Summit on Open Access
09 May, 2011 - On May 20th & 21st, the Right to Research Coalition will host the first annual European Student Summit on Open Access at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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A new series of Webcasts for SPARC Europe members
06 May, 2011 - At June 7th we organize the first edition of SPARC Europe Webcast Series for our members: OpenAIRE - what libraries need to know.
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Public response on behalf of SPARC, SPARC Europe and COAR regarding publishers self-deposit policies
15 April, 2011 - Public response on behalf of SPARC, SPARC Europe and COAR regarding publishers self-deposit policies.
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SPARC Europe Annual Meeting
17 March, 2011 - SPARC Europe will hold its 2011 annual meeting on 29 June in Barcelona
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Call for Nominations
10 March, 2011 - Call for Nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
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UNESCO Netherlands Expert Meeting on Open Access
10 March, 2011 - A Global Perspective on Open Access, Amsterdam, 20 January 2011
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Submitted to Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
03 March, 2011 - eIFL and SPARC Europe response to the public consultation on Research Infrastructure Development Plan 2011-2020
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PKP Europe Network
23 February, 2011 - for the benefit of individual and library OA publishers
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OAI7 Registration is open
09 February, 2011 - 7th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
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The First OAPEN Conference
18 January, 2011 - The future of academic publishing is Open Access
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International conference on Open Access
01 December, 2010 - Research-Education-Public Data
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INVITATION: SOAP Symposium
24 November, 2010 - Facts in Open Access Publishing, Berlin, 13 January 2011
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Knowledge Exchange Briefing paper
24 November, 2010 - The Impact of Open Access outside European Universities
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7 reasons why you should register now
20 October, 2010 - SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting
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SPARC Europe joins the DARTEurope Board
13 October, 2010 - Research libraries and library consortia working together to improve global access to European research theses
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LIBER is seeking for a Project Officer
29 September, 2010 - to work in cooperation with SPARC Europe
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Promotional video for OAI7 by Dr Paul Ayris
23 September, 2010 - Watch the OAI7 intro video
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First results of the SOAP Project presented at COASP
08 September, 2010 - SOAP Project results presented at COASP
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Major Chinese libraries united against unreasonable price increases by some international publishers
08 September, 2010 - Chinese libraries against high prices of international STM journals
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OAI7 Call for Ideas
20 August, 2010 - June 2011 Geneva
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SPARC Europe goes to Greece
13 August, 2010 - Meet us
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SPARC Europe goes to Denmark
13 August, 2010 - Meet us
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SPARC Europe goes to Switzerland
13 August, 2010 - Chairing OAI7
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SPARC Europe goes to Slovenia
13 August, 2010 - Meet us
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By means of communication
13 August, 2010 - We'd like you to know that we are also updating our website bit by bit as to bring in any relevant information that refers to European projects and other initiatives on Open Access and Scholarly Communications.
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SPARC Europe now tweets!
13 August, 2010 - You can follow us at SPARC_EU
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SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair
21 July, 2010 - SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting Call for Proposals
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Summary of SPARC Annual Meeting
15 July, 2010 - SPARC Europe Annual Meeting with Springer and MESUR
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A Strategy for Europe: work plan for 2011 and strategic plan for the 2011-2015 period
08 July, 2010 - SPARC Europe Annual Meeting
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SPARC Europe Fifth Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications
02 July, 2010 - Awards 2010
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SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2010
24 June, 2010 - (combined with LIBER Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication)
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SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
23 June, 2010 - SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics.
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COASP 2010
23 June, 2010 - 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
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SPARC Europe Call-for-Nominations for the Fifth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
29 April, 2010 - Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications
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SPARC Europe announces new Director
14 April, 2010 - Press Release, SPARC Europe appoints new Director
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License to Publish: promoting Open Access and authors' rights in the Nordic social sciences and humanities
18 March, 2010 - A project to promote the principles of OA among scholars in the Nordic social sciences and arts and humanities
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SPARC Europe Recruiting New Executive Director
18 January, 2010 - SPARC Europe announces applications open for the position of Executive Director to take the organisation forward.
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First Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers
07 October, 2009 - COASP 2009, Lund, Sweden, 14-16 September 2009. The multimedia recordings are now publicly available online!
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Wetenschappelijke publicaties openbaar
23 September, 2009 - Bas Savenije, Director General of the National Library of the Netherlands, reports to the Dutch press on Open Access to Scientific Publications
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Welcome to Our New Members
18 September, 2009 - Two new members join SPARC Europe
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A Compact for Open-Access Publication
18 September, 2009 - Five Leading US Universities Commit to Supporting Open Access Journals
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Public Library of Science Continues to Innovate
18 September, 2009 - The Public Library of Science has added article-level metrics to all of its journals
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The Directory of Open Access Journals Receives the SPARC Europe Fourth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2009
02 July, 2009 - DOAJ has been presented with the 2009 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
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Significant New Deposit Mandates Announced
17 June, 2009 - New mandates requiring researchers to make their papers available in open access have been announced in Belgium, Norway, and the UK
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OA would save the Netherlands 133 million Euros per year
11 June, 2009 - SURF foundation study shows the major economic benefits that would follow a move to open access
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Centre for Research Communications (CRC) Launched
09 June, 2009 - New Centre for research and development in open access communications at announced at the University of Nottingham
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SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
18 March, 2009 - Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications, 17 March 2009
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Welsh Repository Network (WRN) launch
01 March, 2009 - Project to create a network of twelve repositories across Wales
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SURF Announce 2009 to be Open Access Year
01 March, 2009 - Dutch higher education sector has declared 2009 to be ‘Open Access Year’.
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OAI6 - Innovations in Scholarly Communication
11 February, 2009 - Registration is now open for participation to the next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), to be held at the University of Geneva from 17 to 19 June 2009.
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Economic Study of OA Shows Benefits Outweigh Costs
28 January, 2009 - New study by John Houghton and co-authors shows that the UK would both reduce costs and see economic benefits if there was a shift from subscription to open access
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Final UK Research Council to Adopt Open Access Mandate
28 January, 2009 - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announces plan to adopt OA mandate
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New Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Launched
14 October, 2008 - As part of Open Access Day the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, announced its official launch on 14 October 2008. The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally trough an exchange of information, setting of industry standards, advancing business and publishing models, advocating for gold OA journals publishing, education and the promotion of innovation. OASPA has the strong support of SPARC Europe.
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Springer Purchase BioMedCentral
07 October, 2008 - Springer has announced that it is to buy pioneering OA publisher BMC
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European Commission launches open access pilot
27 August, 2008 - EC pilot to give OA to results from approximatley 20% of FP7 projects - especially in health, energy, environment, social sciences and information and communication technologies.
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SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to closer collaboration
07 July, 2008 - SPARC Europe and DRIVER to cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories.
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SPARC Europe Third Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
22 April, 2008 - Leo Waaijers Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2008
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SHERPA Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2007
18 April, 2007 - SHERPA honoured in recognition of their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access
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European Commission Issues 'Communication' on Open Access
21 February, 2007 - The EC promises to include publishing costs in research grants and promote open access infrastructure development.
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European Research Community Call on European Union to Adopt Open Access
20 February, 2007 - EC Commissioner of research presented with 17,500-signatory petition for open access
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Fifth UK Research Council Issues Open Access Mandate
30 October, 2006 - Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council to require self-archiving from its grantees
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European Commission Publishes Synthesis of Responses to Scientific Publications Study
10 October, 2006 - Majority of stakeholders respond positively to call for open access to publicly-funded research
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Fourth UK Research Council Adopts Open Access Mandate
21 August, 2006 - Natural Environment Research Council to require self-archiving from its grantees
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UK Funding Bodies Mandate Open Access
11 July, 2006 - Three Research Councils issue self-archiving mandates
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European Commission Publishes Study Into Scientific Publications
31 January, 2006 - Study identifies key failing of current market to meet researchers' needs
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Leading European Library Organization Firmly Supports Research Councils UK New Open Access Policy
14 July, 2005 - Policy that requires UK-funded research be deposited in openly accessible archives will strengthen increased investment in research.
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UK Research Councils Publish Draft Open Access Policy
29 June, 2005 - Policy would make provision of open access a condition of grant
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Launch of the Directory of Open Access Repositories Announced
14 February, 2005 - New resource will provide authoritative listing of open access repositories
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Issue Access Policy
03 February, 2005 - US funding agency falls short of open access mandate
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UK Science and Technology Committee Publish Report
20 July, 2004 - Committee of the UK House of Commons concludes that 'the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory'
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Berlin Declaration Lauched
22 October, 2003 - German funding agencies coume out in support of Open Access
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Merger Announced Between Springer and Kluwer
07 July, 2003 - New firm will be second largest commercial scholarly publisher
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SPARC Europe Hires Director and Formally Launches Organisation Based at Oxford University
20 August, 2002 - Advocacy initiatives and local projects already underway; LIBER to act as umbrella organisation for pan-European membership
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SPARC and SPARC Europe Support Budapest Open Access Initiative
14 February, 2002 - Call to to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet
Carmen Morlon commented 30 September, 2010
COASP video recordings now available at http://river-valley.tv/conferences/oaspa-2010/
Carmen Morlon commented 23 September, 2010
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=a53f790bd14e
Carmen Morlon commented 20 October, 2010
Registration rates for the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting will increase on 25 October. The hotel reservation deadline is also 25 October.
So, here are 7 reasons why we think you should REGISTER NOW at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/dr10!
Carmen Morlon commented 13 August, 2010
Wim van der Stelt presentation is now available.
Carmen Morlon commented 20 August, 2010
Johan Bollen presentation is now available
Carmen Morlon commented 29 September, 2010
http://river-valley.tv/conferences/oaspa-2010/
Carmen Morlon commented 03 March, 2011
OAPEN and SPARC Europe by Astrid van Wesenbeeck now available here.