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 >
Survey reveals need for good guidance about trustworthy places to publish research
OASPA is a founder and committee member of the Think. Check. Submit. initiative, which is helping researchers choose journals they can trust. The findings from Think. Check. Submit.’s recent survey, discussed in this press release, reveal the need for this work and will help guide development of the initiative in 2019. 19 December 2018 –… Read full article >