6. Join the SPARC Europe Board
7. SPARC Europe welcomes the new UK Open Access policy
8. 15 principles of transparency for scholarly publishing
9. Announcing the launch of the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020
10. SPARC Europe in two new EU projects - FOSTER and PASTEUR4OA
11. Briefing Papers: OA in the humanities and in the social sciences
12. We welcome three new members to the SPARC Europe Board
13. The UK House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Report on Open Access
14. What are you doing for Open Access week this year (2013)?
15. Webcast Invitation
16. The latest advances in the promotion and implementation of OA policies in Italy
17. SPARC Europe Board Election 2013 - Call for Nominations
18. SPARC Europe Open Session at the Pre-LIBER conference
19. SPARC Europe's Second Response to the Members of the BIS Select Committee
20. Registry of Research Data Repositories launched - re3data.org
21. Advocacy: How to hasten open access
22. Interviews about Key Open Access Policy Initiatives
23. I Love OA petition
24. Analysis of funder Open Access policies around the world
25. SPARC Europe responds to the UK House of Lords Select Committee for Science & Technology inquiry into the UK Government's policy on Open Access and its implementation by RCUK
26. SPARC Europe response to the UK Government Department of Business, Innovation & Skills Committee inquiry into the UK Government's Open Access policy
27. Polish Ministry of Administration & Digitization - great debate on open public resources!
28. Open Access news from France including the Minister of Higher Education and Research
29. 29th Seminar of Higher Education Library Cooperative
30. Croatian Open Access Declaration, the “Hamster” portal, and open access theology journals
31. UK Business, Innovation and Skills Committee announces inquiry into Open Access
32. 6th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar: Libraries As Drivers for Change, Brussels, 26-27 November 2012
33. ANNOUNCEMENT - Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
34. PRESS RELEASE - New agreement concluded regarding management of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
35. Open Access Week @ AIMS
36. Lars Bjørnshauge challenged attendees to push for real change at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference
37. UK House of Lords enquiry on Open Access
38. Open Education Week
39. Interview with Alma Swan in Research Europe
40. Sign the petition - protect EU research funding from cuts
41. What it takes for the stakeholders involved to facilitate the full potential of open access to unfold!
42. PPT by Lars Bjørnshauge: Is participation really the problem? If so, participation in what?
43. R2RC Partners with PhD Comics for Open Access Week Video
44. Ireland has announced a National Open Access Policy
45. Developing quality test for new open access journals
46. Open Access to Publications and Research Integrity: Keys to Research Excellence in Europe and Globally - Press Release
47. The European Science Foundation’s EMRC calls for the adoption of open access in biomedical sciences
48. Visibility: building online scholarly presence
49. Alma Swan - Open Access and you – a relationship with promise
50. Open Access to Excellence in Research
51. R2RC European Open Access Week Webcast
52. CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications
53. Lars Bjørnshauge in the UKSG eNews
54. Meeting with the Commissioner for Research & Innovation
55. Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online
56. Speakers announced for IFLA session on Open Access
57. Now online: the Powerpoint of last week's Webcast on Article level metrics
58. SPARC Europe response to EC Communication and Recommendation
59. UK's Research Councils publish new stronger policy on Open Access
60. SPARC Europe's response to the Finch Report
61. Election to SPARC Europe Board
62. SPARC Innovator: The World Bank
63. Now online: Presentations from SPARC Europe Session at the LIBER conference
64. SPARC Europe Members Meeting in Tartu
65. SPARC Europe's response to the inaccuracies in the article by the Daily Mail's City Editor on 18 June
66. COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”
67. The Budapest Open Access Initiative at 10 - Recommendations for the next ten years
68. Webcast Invitation: Article level metrics with Jennifer Lin
69. New website for SPARC Europe
70. PETITION
71. Press Release 17 May 2012 - Pushing the Frontier on Text Mining
72. Pushing the Frontier on Text Mining: A conversation with Heather Piwowar
73. Lars Bjørnshauge Appointed Interim Director SPARC Europe
74. Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
75. The new OpenAIRE Quarterly Publication is out
76. Bioline International, an open access e-publishing platform, is seeking new members and supporters
77. The New European Team is in Place
78. Experts Meeting on the UNESCO Open Access Strategy
79. Sharing knowledge: EC-funded projects on scientific information in the digital age
80. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting in Barcelona
81. Sixth SPARC Europe Award goes to eIFL.net
82. The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
83. A new series of Webcasts for SPARC Europe members 2011
84. First Annual European Student Summit on Open Access
85. SPARC Europe response to EC Green Paper on a common strategic framework for EU
86. SPARC Europe at Public Hearing on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Data
87. Get prepared for Open Access Week 2011
88. Interview Series
89. UKB Statement: Concern about Elsevier’s Open Access Policy
90. OpenAccess.se Statement approved by the Steering committee for OpenAccess.se on 23 May 2011
91. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2011
92. Call for Nominations
93. UNESCO Netherlands Expert Meeting on Open Access
94. OAI7 - Innovations in Scholarly Communication
95. UNESCO-NL Expert Meeting on Open Access
96. Submitted to Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
97. PKP Europe Network
98. OAI7 Registration is open
99. The First OAPEN Conference
100. Research-Education-Public Data in Athens
101. SOAP Symposium, Berlin
102. Research-Education-Public Data
103. INVITATION: SOAP Symposium
104. Knowledge Exchange Briefing paper
105. 7 reasons why you should register now
106. SPARC Europe joins the DARTEurope Board
107. LIBER is seeking for a Project Officer
108. Promotional video for OAI7 by Dr Paul Ayris
109. First results of the SOAP Project presented at COASP
110. Major Chinese libraries united against unreasonable price increases by some international publishers
111. OAI7 Call for Ideas
112. SPARC Europe goes to Greece
113. SPARC Europe goes to Denmark
114. SPARC Europe goes to Slovenia
115. SPARC Europe goes to Switzerland
116. SPARC Europe now tweets!
117. Policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe
118. SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 Call for Proposals
119. A Summary of SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2010
120. Fifth SPARC Europe Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications goes to CERN
121. SPARC Europe Annual Meeting 2010
122. SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
123. COASP: 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
124. SPARC Europe announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fifth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
125. SPARC Europe announces new Director
126. License to Publish: promoting Open Access and authors' rights in the Nordic social sciences and humanities
127. COASP: 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers
128. Wetenschappelijke publicaties openbaar
129. Welcome to IIU Press and Research Centre and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, our new members
130. A Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity
131. Public Library of Science Continues to Innovate
132. Fourth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications awarded to the Directory of Open Access Journals
133. Significant New Deposit Mandates Announced
134. OA would save the Netherlands 133 million Euros per year
135. Centre for Research Communications (CRC) Launched
136. SPARC Europe announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications
137. Welsh Repository Network (WRN) launch
138. SURF announces 2009 to be Open Access Year
139. OAI6 Registration is now Open
140. Economic Study of OA Shows Benefits Outweigh Costs
141. EPSRC to Adopt Open Access Mandate
142. New Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Launched
143. Springer Purchase BioMedCentral
144. European Commission launches open access pilot
145. SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to closer collaboration
146. Third SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications awarded to Leo Waaijers
147. Second SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications goes to SHERPA
148. European Commission Issues 'Communication' on Open Access
149. European Research Community Call on European Union to Adopt Open Access
150. Fifth UK Research Council Issues Open Access Mandate
151. European Commission Publishes Synthesis of Responses to Scientific Publications Study
152. Fourth UK Research Council Adopts Open Access Mandate
153. UK Funding Bodies Mandate Open Access
154. European Commission Publishes Study Into Scientific Publications
155. Leading European Library Organization Firmly Supports Research Councils UK New Open Access Policy
156. UK Research Councils Publish Draft Open Access Policy
157. Launch of the Directory of Open Access Repositories Announced
158. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Issue Access Policy
159. UK Science and Technology Committee Publish Report
160. Berlin Declaration Lauched
161. Merger Announced Between Springer and Kluwer
162. SPARC Europe Hires Director and Formally Launches Organisation Based at Oxford University
163. SPARC and SPARC Europe Support Budapest Open Access Initiative

SPARC Europe roadshow programme on OA publishing in the Humanities

If you are in the UK, and you have authors who want to know more about Open Access publishing, SPARC Europe has organised a roadshow for humanities scholars. See the programme here.

SPARC Europe to host Open Humanities Roadshow in the UK

A series of events will take place across the UK during the autumn of 2014 to provide an opportunity for researchers to learn about new publishing channels in the humanities.

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