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Up one level- SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to closer collaboration
- SPARC Europe and DRIVER to cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories.
- European Commission launches open access pilot
- 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.
- Springer Purchase BioMedCentral
- Springer has announced that it is to buy pioneering OA publisher BMC
- New Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Launched
- 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.
- Final UK Research Council to Adopt Open Access Mandate
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announces plan to adopt OA mandate
- Welsh Repository Network (WRN) launch
- Project to create a network of twelve repositories across Wales