The document outlines SPARC Europe's new strategy to reflect developments in open scholarship. The strategy's scope covers open access to publications, open peer review, open data, open educational resources, research evaluation, and research integrity. The vision is to make more research accessible to all and strive to make open the default in Europe. The mission is to provide leadership to enable more access to Europe's research. The goals are to support pan-European open scholarship agendas, provide long-term leadership across Europe, reinforce open scholarship work through increased collaboration, and encourage new norms making open the default.

1. SPARC Europe´s Strategy
The new strategy to reflect the changing landscape and the drive
towards Open Scholarship (publications, data, software, educational
resources etc)
• Member and SPARC Europe Board input have fed into the
development of the strategy.
• In addition, we have also conducted studies into current international
developments in Open Access and Open Scholarship.
• We have also listened to funders, policy makers and library
stakeholder opinions across Europe on areas for further development
in the areas of Open Access and Open Scholarship.

2. The Scope
• Open Scholarship in Europe:
– Open Access to Publications
– Open Peer Review,
– Open Data
– Open Educational Resources
– Research Evaluation
– Research Integrity

3. The Vision
Driving to make more research accessible
to all, and striving to make Open the default in
Europe:
For the benefit of the academic community,
education, industry, innovation and for society.

4. The mission
Our mission is to provide leadership to
Europe’s
research community to enable more
access to Europe’s research for all.

5. Target Groups
• Primary target groups
– Europe’s research policy makers at the EC,
European Council, national research funders
– Europe’s research communities including
research administrators and senior university
management, associations of universities
– The European academic library community
• Secondary target groups:
– European and global organizations working for
Open Scholarship

6. Goals
• To support pan-European and national
Open Scholarship agendas in the areas of
– OA to publications,
– Open Data,
– Open Software, OER,
– research evaluation and
– research integrity,

7. Goals
To provide leadership across Europe
for Open Scholarship in the longer
term leveraging strong contacts with
policy makers, funders and Europe’s
research institutions.

8. Goals
• To reinforce Open Scholarship work across
Europe for a more unified approach through
increased collaboration with organisations ,
projects and initiatives such as
– the Open Science Policy Platform, Science
Europe, EUA, LIBER, EIFL, Knowledge Exchange
and others by
– seeking synergies, and acting as a connector,
facilitator and broker to Open Scholarship
organisations to create change.

9. Goals
To encourage new norms and
practice for cultural change in
academia in the area of Scholarly
Communication –
making Open the default.