OASPA is pleased to announce the fourth webinar in our new Open Scholarship Webinar Series*, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access publishing: Implementing a consortial funding model for open access publishing Date: Thursday 4th April 2019 Time: 3.30pm – 4.30pm BST… Read full article >
The OA Switchboard
On December 6th 2018, a group of stakeholders representing research funding organizations, academic libraries, scholarly publishers, and open infrastructure providers met in London to discuss a proposal for addressing the growing set of challenges in the implementation of institutional and funder policies supporting open access publication. The result of this initial stakeholder meeting was broad… Read full article >
OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October. A coordinated approach… Read full article >
OASPA Webinar in support of Academic-Led Publishing Day
OASPA is pleased to announce the third webinar in our new series, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access publishing. The next webinar will be The Academy takes on publishing: OASPA Webinar in support of Academic-Led Publishing Day. Date: Thursday 7th February 2019 Time:… Read full article >
UK-based position at OASPA
Events & Communications Coordinator The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, is seeking a proactive self-starter to join this rapidly developing organisation and to provide a supporting role for communications both externally and within our membership, as well as to assist with running our online events and annual conference. This full time position offers a… Read full article >