SPARC® Europe

Welcome to SPARC® Europe, the alliance of European research libraries, library organizations, and research institutions. We advocate change in the scholarly communications market, support competition, and encourage new publishing models (in particular, open access models) that better serve the international researcher community.
Bodleian Library
Broad Street, Oxford

What's New:
The EC has published its Communication on Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation. (Also available in French and German.) The highlights include the commitment to include publishing costs in research projects and €50 million for work on infrastructures, in particular digital repositories, in 2007-2008. The Communication stopped short of a deposit mandate, but did say that 'specific guidelines [will be] issued, within specific programmes, on the publication of articles in open repositories'. This takes the EC one step closer to mandating deposit. (20/02/07)