SPARC Europe is heading to #OER26! 🌍
This year's theme – Openness Reimagined – invites us to reflect on what openness must become. Our Senior #OpenEducation Expert Paola Corti takes the stage with a contribution co-authored by Vanessa Proudman & Paul Stacey on connecting policy, coordination & community to transform Europe's open education landscape.
Find us there! 👋
#ConnectingTheOpens #SPARCEurope #OpenAccess #ENOEL #OpenScience
This joint statement is issued by six major European organisations – ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, LIBER, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe – representing thousands of European universities, research-performing organisations, libraries, scholarly infrastructures, and academies of sciences and humanities. In light of the consultation on the European Research Area (ERA) Act, it reflects on the current state of Open Science (OS). While significant policy progress has been made through the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), European Council Conclusions in 2022 and 2023, national OS policies, and more, substantial challenges remain. Financial, linguistic, and geographic inequalities continue to limit equitable participation in and access to Open Science. This joint statement outlines what key remaining barriers require a coordinated approach. The ERA Act represents an important opportunity to accelerate progress through targeted legislative measures, but legislation alone will not be sufficient. Achieving Open Science will require the mobilisation of a diverse ecosystem of actors and complementary tools, including policy alignment, incentives, infrastructure, and community-led initiatives.
Did you miss the exceptional #cccoer session on "Resilience and Open Education:
Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime"
Well, we've got you covered!
Watch the replay here: https://bit.ly/4k5WOA0
A collaboration between @CCCOER a node of @oeglobal #ENOEL and #SPARCEurope
Join us for a personal and thought-provoking session featuring Dr. Tetiana Kolesnykova, Director of the Scientific Library with the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (Ukraine), with live translation by Mira Buist-Zhuk, Academic Information Specialist with the University of Groni
Did you miss the exceptional #cccoer session on "Resilience and Open Education:
Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime"
Well, we've got you covered!
Watch the replay here: https://bit.ly/4k5WOA0
A collaboration between @CCCOER a node of @oeglobal #ENOEL and #SPARCEurope
Join us for a personal and thought-provoking session featuring Dr. Tetiana Kolesnykova, Director of the Scientific Library with the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (Ukraine), with live translation by Mira Buist-Zhuk, Academic Information Specialist with the University of Groni
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Included are organisations such as #OEGlobal #CCCOER #OERAfrica #CreativeCommons #ISKME #ICDE #SPARC #SPARCEurope #WikimediaFoundation #Merlot #SkillsCommons #UniversitatdeBarcelona #eLC #IdahoStateBoardofEducation #UniversityofLeeds
Collectively, NOO stands at the forefront of open education, bringing together diverse organizations (and their communities) and visionary leaders committed to a world of accessible knowledge.
View presentations 👉 https://bit.ly/NOOActions
#SPARCEurope (@sparc_eu) just released a very useful guide to university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies. (Disclosure: It links to several of my own works.)
https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-access/copyright/project-retain/rights-retention-helper/
1/ I just spoke at a #SPARCEurope event on university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcuqhqjIoH9f-NlDZE0LLT5yO0FZCVzUI#/registration
All of us were asked to share relevant links, and here are the ones I shared (7 pieces I've written or co-written on rights retention):
#Academia #Universities
@academicchatter
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"Rights Retention. Be the next mover! How to implement a policy supporting rights retention and open licensing in your institution" is a webinar organized by SPARC Europe in the framework of the Retain project as part of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme. This session aims to empower institutions with the knowledge to craft frameworks for authors’ rights retention, facilitating legal Open Access (OA) publishing. The webinar offers a rare opportunity to compare and contrast rights retention (RR) and open licensing (OL) policies from different countries, shedding light on diverse approaches and their implications. It will present findings and recommendations from the long-awaited SPARC Europe’s report, "Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe." This session will help you grasp the evolving dynamics of European RR and OL policies and learn first-hand from European experts, sharing their experiences, challenges, and success stories in a discussion panel. Whether you are currently shaping RR and OL policies or are new to the field, this webinar is a chance to participate in a thought-provoking dialogue that could redefine your institution's approach to rights retention and open licensing for more OA.
Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8084051
#SPARCEurope recommends that "research and higher education institutions should augment their existing policies with elements calling for rights retention to support immediate Open Access to all types of research scholarly outputs".
49 European research institutions participating in a survey reported to have a rights retention policy in place or in development.
This report investigates the current landscape of non-legislative policy practices affecting researchers and authors in the authors' rights and licensing domain. It is an outcome of research conducted by Project Retain led by SPARC Europe, as part of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme. The report concludes with a set of recommendations for institutional policymakers, funders and legislators, and publishers. It is accompanied by the study dataset. This project was funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
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Interfas
OpenAIRE
Open Education Global
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