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View article: Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success Research Report Version 1.0
Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success Research Report Version 1.0 Open
Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing value chain by offering a greater range of pre-publication and editorial support services. Given the rapid evolution of these services, there i…
View article: SPARC Landscape Analysis and Roadmap for Action 2021 Update
SPARC Landscape Analysis and Roadmap for Action 2021 Update Open
The past year has seen more deals that led to more concentration, loss of diversity, and ultimately to the academic community’s lessening control over its own destiny. However, there are also positive signs: a large merger failed, Invest i…
View article: SPARC Roadmap for Action: Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure
SPARC Roadmap for Action: Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure Open
SPARC’s Roadmap for Action builds on our previously released Landscape Analysis, providing a set of individual and collective actions that institutions can consider taking to help ensure control of their data and data infrastructure. Recog…
View article: Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access
Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access Open
Key points OA business models must be sustainable over the long term, and article processing charge payments do not work for all; Subscribe to Open (S2O) is proposed, and being tested, as an alternative model. The S2O model motivates subsc…
View article: SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions
SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions Open
This landscape analysis was produced by SPARC in response to the growing trend of commercial acquisition of critical infrastructure in our institutions. It is intended to provide a comprehensive look at the current players in this arena, t…