Earlier this year OASPA announced the introduction of the new Supporter membership category. With this new category, OASPA membership was expanded to non-publisher organisations and individuals to broaden open scholarship discussion with additional perspectives. We introduced the Supporter category for organisations and individuals who are supportive of OASPA’s mission and goals, but do not fit… Read full article >

A revised version of the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing has been released by four key scholarly publishing organizations today. These guiding principles are intended as a foundation for best practice in scholarly publishing to help existing and new journals reach the best possible standards.  The fourth edition of the Principles… Read full article >

  The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organisations that have collaborated to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications. This is the fourth version of a work in… Read full article >

We recently welcomed Elsevier  as an OASPA member in the Publisher category. Elsevier joins almost 200 OASPA members.  We asked  Laura Hassink, Managing Director for STM Journals, a few questions so we could learn more about Elsevier and its connection to open scholarship and the decision to become an OASPA member.   Tell us a… Read full article >