Our strategy
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
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PALOMERA provides new ground-breaking resources in OA book policy
The PALOMERA project is wrapping up after two years of in-depth work on Open Access books policy in Europe. SPARC Europe is proud to have participated in this project. PALOMERA has … Read More
Just released — new insights into OE in European Libraries of Higher Education 2022
We are pleased to announce the publication of our report, Open Education in European Libraries of Higher Education: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on OER. The report presents the findings of the … Read More
Report: Survey results provide insights into Open Education among European Higher Education Libraries
Today, SPARC Europe is releasing “Open Education in European Libraries of Higher Education” — an in-depth report on the findings from a recent survey that was designed to help glean insights … Read More
10 ways libraries can support the implementation of Plan S
We are happy to share a document with the library community that suggests ways in which the Plan S Implementation Task Force can benefit from academic and national libraries when planning … Read More
Our Open / FAIR Data Work
Taking action to make Data Open or FAIR Our efforts around Open / FAIR Data centre on arming policy-makers with the information they need, providing much-needed guidance on multiple fronts – … Read More
The Open Data Citation Advantage
SPARC Europe just published a briefing paper on how open data is proving to have a positive effect on research impact in certain disciplines so far. Download the .
SPARC Europe key resources
A selection of our policy and advocacy resources to share and re-use Annual Report SPARC Europe 2025 Annual Report SPARC Europe 2024 Annual Report Facilitating knowledge exchange Council of National Open … Read More
How Open Are You?
This page requires a modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer 9+). How Open is Your Research? A Checklist for Institutions This checklist is designed to enable research … Read More
