The OASPA Board of Directors comprises 11 members who serve for a term of 3 years. This September three of the current OASPA Board Members reach the end of their term of service. In keeping with our annual election process, OASPA member organisations were invited to nominate a representative for consideration as a candidate. We… Read full article >
Growth of OASPA members book output: We see different patterns between books and journals
Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output – both books and journals. We are delighted to once again 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 books findings. This… Read full article >
Webinar – Researcher Focus 1: Researcher Needs, Common Values and Practices
As well as the recording above, please scroll down in this post for responses to some of the unanswered questions from attendees. Date: June 29, 2021 Time: 3 – 4.15 pm UK (2 – 3.15 pm UTC) Other timezones: 7.00 am Pacific Time, 9.00 am Central Time, 10.00 am Eastern… Read full article >
OASPA endorses Make Data Count: join our webinar to find out more
There is increasing interest by many different actors and organisations in ‘open data publishing’ and what this actually entails. Scholarly publishers, alongside repositories, bibliometrics experts, infrastructure providers, libraries and others, have an important role to play in contributing to and supporting the infrastructure for research data publishing so that the data underlying publications can be… Read full article >
Developing a Healthy and Diverse OA Market
For OASPA, having a healthy and diverse publishing market is integral to our mission. We want to promote the development of diverse systems, business models and policies that support OA publishing and encourage a healthy and diverse market for pure OA publishing in the longer term. In order to shape our goals in this area, we… Read full article >