Updated Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe
In the past six months, many changes have occurred in the policy landscape across Europe. These changes are now reflected in our updated Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe report, executed by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC).

Download the report.

The Data Management Engagement Award
In the ongoing effort to encourage cultural change amongst researchers to embrace improved data management, SPARC Europe, The University of Cambridge and Jisc have launched a new competition. It aims to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM).

Find out more about the award.

SPARC Europe welcomes four new board members
Our members have spoken and SPARC Europe now has four newly elected board members who will be officially assuming their new positions 1 January 2018.  They promise to bring greater geographic and gender balance to our board. They are:

• Ms. Marlène Delhaye, Head of the Open Access Unit and Head of the E-Resources Service, Aix Marseille University Academic Libraries, France
• Mr. Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Head, Research Unit, Library, University of Barcelona, Spain
• Anna Walek, PhD, Director, Gdansk University of Technology Library, Poland
• Assistant Prof. Jadranka Stojanovski, Dept of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia

The Times Higher Education Supplement interviews Director of SPARC Europe
Our efforts to spread word of the SCOSS initiative caught the attention of The Times Higher Education, which invited SPARC Europe’s director, Vanessa Proudman, to be interviewed for a feature.

Read the piece.

We wish everyone a Very Happy New Year!