Economic and Social Returns on Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded...
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provided support for a feasibility study, to outline one possible approach to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research...
View ArticleComplying with the NIH Public Access Policy - Copyright Considerations and...
This White Paper is written primarily for policymaking staff in universities and other institutional recipients of NIH support responsible for ensuring compliance with the Public Access Policy.
View ArticleOpen Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access...
This SPARC / Science Commons white paper discusses both the motivation and the process for establishing a binding institutional policy that automatically grants a copyright license from each faculty...
View ArticleLibrary Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report...
This report presents the finding of a project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further...
View ArticleThe Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
This paper examines institutional repositories and describes their potential role and exploring their impact on major stakeholders in the scholarly communication process.
View ArticleOpen Access: Unlocking the Value of Scientific Research
A SPARC white paper by Richard Johnson.
View ArticleAuthor Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the...
The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in...
View ArticleSponsorships for Nonprofit Scholarly & Scientific Journals: A Guide to...
This guide describes how nonprofit publishers can evaluate whether a corporate sponsorship program might be appropriate for their journal and, if appropriate, develop a sponsorship program as a...
View ArticleGuide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to...
An Open Society Institute report written by Raym Crow.
View ArticlePublishing Cooperatives: An Alternative for Society Publishers - A SPARC...
This SPARC discussion paper proposes a federation of discipline-specific publishing cooperatives as an alternative operating model for society publishers. Publishing cooperatives would be owned,...
View ArticleThe Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?
In 2012, the Committee for Economic Development released the report, "The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?" which concluded that federal Open Access policies...
View ArticleIncome models for Open Access: An overview of current practice
“How do we pay for Open Access?” is a key question faced by publishers, authors, and libraries as awareness and interest in free, immediate, online access to scholarly research increases. SPARC...
View ArticleCampus-based Open-access Publishing Funds
An open-access fund is a pool of money set aside by an institution to support publication models that enable free, immediate, online distribution of, and access to, scholarly research. SPARC supports...
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Beyond the Boycott: Q&A with Timothy Gowers
Next steps in the Open Access battle: Shining a light on journal pricing
View ArticleThe Open Access Movement Grows Up: Taking Stock of a Revolution
PLOS BiologyIt's been just over a decade since the concept of Open Access (OA) first captured the attention of the scientific and scholarly research community, bringing with it the promise and...
View ArticleCampus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues
Campus-based publishing partnerships offer the academy greater control over the intellectual products that it helps create. To fully realize this potential, such partnerships will need to evolve from...
View ArticleComplying with the NIH Public Access Policy - Copyright Considerations and...
This White Paper is written primarily for policymaking staff in universities and other institutional recipients of NIH support responsible for ensuring compliance with the Public Access Policy.
View ArticleLibrary Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report...
This report presents the finding of a project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further...
View ArticleCampus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues
Campus-based publishing partnerships offer the academy greater control over the intellectual products that it helps create. To fully realize this potential, such partnerships will need to evolve from...
View ArticleLibrary Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report...
This report presents the finding of a project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further...
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