This guest post is by Aradhana Mistry, Publishing Systems Coordinator, BMJ The majority of publishers who produce full-text online journal articles produce their content in XML, a language that allows encoding of documents in a human- and machine-readable format. The XML format used is usually the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS), which is a standard… Read full article >
Webinar: Open Book Metadata: Speaker key takeaways, attendee questions answered and webinar chat resources
Following our recent Open Book Metadata webinar, we asked our speakers to respond to the unanswered questions posed by attendees via the webinar Q&A channel. You can find those questions and answers below as well as speaker key takeaways and an edited curated list of resources and comments shared via webinar chat. This may be… Read full article >
Webinar: Open Book Metadata
As well as the recording above, please see this post for speakers’ key takeaways, answers to attendee questions and a curated resource and comment list from the webinar chat channel. Presenters’ slides: Micah Altman, Dominique Babini, Mel Bach, Christina Drummond and Jennifer Kemp We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore the… Read full article >
Guest post – Update: COVID-19 Rapid Reviewers Collaboration
C19RR – what we learned in 2020 and what we aim to do in 2021 This post is by Sarah Greaves, Independent Consultant & Phil Hurst, Publisher, The Royal Society We’ve all seen huge change in 2020 especially in publishing, and one initiative many of us have been involved with is the COVID-19 Rapid Reviewers… Read full article >
OASPA members’ output continues to grow, as does the use of CC BY licenses
Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output. This year, we are delighted to have worked with Delta Think who have helped us by taking on the analysis, structuring and presentation of the data we collected, and in this guest blog post they highlight our findings. This post is by Dan Pollock, Chief… Read full article >