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Hot off the press: SPARC Europe 2021 Annual Report

 

What came out of this challenging year allowed us to look into the future with hope. In the world of distance and enforced lack of contact, communities tightened and grew stronger around the shared goal of openness.

We are pleased to share the 2021 Annual Report with you. It offers a look back into the past twelve months of our work and actions we took to make Open the default in Europe. 

This Annual Report is organised around the six strategic goals, showing projects and events that SPARC Europe engaged in over the past year to achieve the ambitious objectives outlined at the outset of 2021 in our strategy.

Some highlights of what you will find in the report include:

  • A sample of our efforts to influence and shape key international and national European Open Access and Open Science policy

  • Our work for CoNOSC: a key high-level European OS national policymaker group

  • A look at reports we produced ourselves and cooperated on with other organizations, including The OA Diamonds Journals Study downloaded more than 11.000 times

  • Exciting developments in network building with bustling communities of the Open Access Books Network (OABN) and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL)

  • A review of SCOSS's growth in 2021, reaching over 3.5 million EUR in total pledges
     

Read the report here.


FAIRsFAIR project concludes at the end of February 2022. 

SPARC Europe has been a proud partner in the FAIRsFAIR project for the past three years. With the project soon coming to an end, we’re interested in your feedback on one of the last policy outputs:

Draft FAIR Data Policy Checklist just launched. Let FAIRsFAIR know what you think

FAIRsFAIR's landscape assessment found that data policies that are clear and easy to understand can positively influence researchers in making their data FAIR. Based on the instruments used during our policy support programme, FAIRsFAIR's developed an easy to use FAIR data policy checklist to support policy-makers at all levels in ensuring their policies align with the FAIR Principles and provide clarity on exactly what is expected of researchers. The checklist is based on FAIRsFAIR policy enhancement recommendations and will help users assess whether specific elements of their data policies are FAIR-enabling. 

Together with FAIRsFAIR we invite you to give feedback on the draft FAIR Data Policy Checklist. We are particularly keen to receive your views on whether the assessment statements are appropriate and if you feel there are policy elements that are missing. 

Comments can be added directly to the google doc
The draft will be open for consultation until February 14, 2022.


Join us! FAIRsFAIR webinar on Monitoring EOSC readiness: FAIR data policies

FAIRsFAIR invites you to a workshop in which experts will share recent work undertaken by the EOSC Association to monitor activities and define key performance indicators relating to FAIR data policies. Vanessa will facilitate the session where experts will discuss the critical aims of an EOSC survey on policy monitoring currently being carried out with Member States and introduce solutions being developed by EOSC Future and FAIRsFAIR to support comparable policy monitoring moving forward. The session will take place on 17 February from 11.00-13.00 CET.

Register here.
 

FAIRsFAIR also had an online final event, which took place over three days at the end of January 2022. Project partners and stakeholders met in a series of concluding meetings. Among them, we wanted to highlight the following two where SPARC Europe had more of an active role:

In a Public Meeting on 26 January, Vanessa Proudman and Pierre Mounier had a fireside conversation on sustaining FAIR infrastructure. They talked about why this was essential for many EOSC projects, how to maintain it, including speaking about the SCOSS model. The duo also discussed how important it was to monitor costs to inform prospective funders in the future. 

On 27 January, the last day of the final event, project partners gathered in a 2-hour Sustainability workshop. During this meeting, they looked at the key outputs of FAIRsFAIR in gather-town. They paid particular attention to six project outputs with no sustainable solutions for going forward. They discussed their feasibility for living beyond the project and their environments in break-out rooms. Experts look forward to continuing these discussions in the future.

Past events

Fall 2021 CNI meeting
SCOSS was invited as a speaker to the prestigious Fall 2021 CNI meeting in early December 2021; one of the two key annual events for the Coalition for Networked Information members. We presented the SCOSS 2022-2024 strategy for the first time.

Watch the recording here.

FORCE 11
During the FORCE2021 conference, Agata Morka in her Lightning Talk Let’s govern together! The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS): community in action for Open Science talked about the SCOSS governance model.

See the poster here.

Everything you always wanted to know about the SCOSS 3rd pledging round webinar
The first in a series of SCOSS regional webinars focused on the 3rd pledging cycle. It spoke toLatin America and took place on January 25. Representatives of arXiv, Redalyc/AmeliCA, and DSpace presented their service and the audience had a chance to ask them questions. We had simultaneous translation into Spanish for the event to be more inclusive. We look forward to doing this more in future.

Watch the recording here.

Upcoming events

OSEC 2022
This Paris Open Science European Conference – a major international event – will take place virtually on 4-5 February 2022. France is organising this conference event in the context of the French Presidency of the European Union.
The conference's main topics will touch on the transformation of the research and innovation ecosystem in Europe. The event will pay special attention to transparency in health research, the necessary transformation of research evaluation, the future of scientific publishing, and the opening up of code and software produced in a scientific context.

See the full programme here.
Register here.

Workshop on Diamond Open Access
The Diamond OA workshop, organized online by Science Europe in collaboration with cOAlition S, OPERAS and ANR, will take place on 2 February 2022. The event is sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
The workshop will result in the adoption of an ‘Action Plan for Diamond Open Access’. Following the workshop, the action plan will be presented by Lidia Borrell-Damián (Science Europe) and Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S) at the Open Science European Conference (mentioned above). SPARC Europe will lead a sub-workshop at the event.

CoNOSC meeting
Members of the Council for National Open Science Coordination (CoNOSC) will meet on 3 February 2022. SPARC Europe will facilitate the meeting. National OS policymakers will hear about developments in national OS policies from its newest members, see the results of the member consultation, and CoNOSC will take a deep-dive into the behind the scenes of the policymaking process amongst a wide range of European countries.

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