Digital transformation continues to reshape higher education, expanding access to research, teaching, and learning resources through open approaches. These include Open Access, Open Science, Open Education, Open Infrastructure, Open Innovation,…
« We are thrilled to announce the publication of our 2025 Annual Report.
This year, we made significant progress toward our new strategic goals, in addition to following through on…
« The DIAMAS final conference celebrated the 9 project outputs that have been integrated into the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) in…
« March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to…
« (…) As we reflect on SPARC Europe’s highlights in 2024 and the conclusion of our 2021-2024 Strategy, what stands out most prominently is the increasing engagement of the communities we…
« A new strategy will guide SPARC Europe’s work over the next four years. The vision behind our strategy continues to be that European education and research be open by default…
« The PALOMERA project wraps up after two years of in-depth work on Open Access books policy in Europe. SPARC Europe is proud to have participated in…
« Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the…
« In January 2023, OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR unveiled a joint strategy to strengthen the European repository network. This aim is to further strengthen…
« This is the 2023 edition of the SPARC Europe Open Education Survey amongst Higher Education institutions in Europe, in consultation with the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). The…
