Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards With SPARC

Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards With SPARC

The Directory of Open Access Journal DOAJ has introduces its new standards to help community and to address quality concern. These standards have been published by SPARC.

     

To explore the DOAJ standards follow the link

http://sparc.arl.org/blog/doaj-introduces-new-standards

COAR -SPARC Conference 2015

 

                   

Joint COAR-SPARC Conference 2015

Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship

April 15-16, 2015

Porto, Portugal

     

For more details about the conference follow the link

http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference

Open Education Week March 2015

Open Education Week

Event Date:   Monday March 9, 2015 to Friday March 13, 2015

Event Location: Worldwide

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. SPARC encourages campuses to participate in this annual international event by organizing events, sharing resources, and taking action to help celebrate the benefits of free and open sharing in education

www.openeducationweek.org
#openeducationwk

The cost of complying with OA

The Cost of Complying with OA: Survey

The study, commissioned by SPARC Europe and London Higher, aims to explore both the financial and administrative implications to researchers and administrative staff of complying with funder OA policies.

Expected outputs include indicative costs to institutions of making articles OA through gold and green routes; and the estimated cost to UK HE institutions of complying with RCUK and HEFCE policies.

The research is being undertaken by Research Consulting. 

You can read more information about the research on the Research Consulting blog.  The Survey can be found here.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.  SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC focuses on taking action in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – to build on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. 

It has been promoting the issues of Open Access, Open Education and Open data. SPARC has its Open Access Newsletter and forum.

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SPARC Open Access Newsletter and Forum