The Diamond Open Access Policy Forum launched on 29 October 2025, with over 370 participants worldwide attending. Vanessa chaired the event, as SPARC Europe leads this Forum as part of the … Read More
The European Rights Retention Community of Practice (CoP) is an online collaborative space for working to advance rights retention strategies (RRS). Founded in December 2024 by SPARC Europe under the KR21 … Read More
A new proposal for EU legislation, the “European Research Area Act”, is under development and aims to allow researchers, scientific knowledge and technology to circulate freely. The Commission invited evidence to … Read More
New Project Retain Report: Phase Two Findings and Insights The second phase of Project Retain marks a significant step forward in understanding how institutional rights retention policies are evolving across Europe. … Read More
SPARC Europe’s Strategy 2025-2028 The vision Our vision is that European education and research are open by default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and for society as a … Read More
We are really pleased to announce that the Arcadia Fund has extended its support of the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) Programme for a further five years. This continued funding will allow … Read More
The Retain project, which SPARC Europe leads within the Knowledge Rights 21 programme, has just published a position paper on authors’ rights retention, Retaining rights in research outputs to enable the … Read More
A follow-up to SPARC Europe’s Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of Knowledge has recently been approved by the advocacy programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21). KR21 works to bring about changes in … Read More
This helper includes key resources on rights retention for institutions and researchers: including examples of rights retention policies, support documents and guidelines and a key reading list. SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AND GUIDELINES … Read More
