OASPA is delighted to announce
<https://www.oaspa.org/news/the-open-access-journals-toolkit-new-languages-new-editorial-board-members-new-horizons/>
that
the OA Journals Toolkit is now available in Arabic, Portuguese & Spanish as
well as English and French.

The Open Access Journals Toolkit <https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/> is
an independent, open and multilingual resource for anyone involved in
journal publishing. Now 2 years old, it was launched in June 2023 by OASPA
and DOAJ, together with an international board of editors. New translations
of the full content are available in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish - a
total of five versions. 

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Fellow Open Café-ers –

Those who followed with interest our discussion a few months ago about SPARC’s relationship with the New Venture Fund (of which it existed as a component part<https://newventurefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NVF-2020-Public-Disclosure-Copy-1.pdf> for the past decade) and Arabella Advisors<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/us/politics/democrats-dark-money-donors.html> (of which NVF is a “partner and client<https://www.arabellaadvisors.com/blog/exploring-the-new-venture-funds-past-present-and-future/>”) may be interested to know that SPARC has just announced<https://sparcopen.org/news/2025/sparc-to-become-independent-nonprofit-organization-on-june-1/?ref=the-geyser.com> it is becoming an independent nonprofit organization for the first time since it spun off from the Association of Research Libraries in 2014<https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ARL-SPARC-member-message-17june2014.pdf>. 

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The community „Safeguarding Research & Culture” (https://safeguar.de/) also documents the datasets they safeguard to make them easy to find, download, share (https://sciop.net/datasets/).

Von: OpenCafe-l <[log in to unmask]> Im Auftrag von Alice Meadows
Gesendet: Montag, 2. Juni 2025 00:08
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Betreff: Re: [OPENCAFE-L] Navigation to rescued data?

Hi Danny

The Data Rescue Project is doing some good work on this: 

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Dear all,

Apologies for cross posting. I am wondering how libraries are pointing
users to 'rescued' data. I am aware of many, many efforts to rescue
material that is being 'disappeared'.

Harvard Law School has a huge collection from data.gov
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

But is there an effort out there to list where material has ended up? I
haven't heard of anything, but I might be missing something very obvious. 

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