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Sharing knowledge is a fundamental human right.

SPARC is a global advocacy organization working to make research and education open and equitable by design—for everyone.

Why Open Matters

€10B

Annual cost to European economy of not having FAIR research data

$17M

Funding provided by US Congress for open textbooks

160M

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No hesitancy at Indiana University to share vaccine research as...

Researchers at Indiana University had been in the process of studying how a childhood vaccine for...
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NYU Uses Open Data to Accelerate COVID-19 Research and Freely...

When researchers at New York University want to use open science practices, they turn to H. Austin...
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University of Toronto Researchers Accelerate Embrace of Open...

Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference...

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