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 Time, 11.00 am Brasilia Time, 4.00 pm Central European Time, 3.00 pm West Africa Time, 4.00 pm South Africa Standard Time, 7.30 pm India Standard… 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 >
Call for contributions for the 2021 OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. The 2021 online conference will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication. These include equity in… Read full article >
Guest post: The Fully OA agreement – an essential component of a diverse open access world
This is a guest post by the OASPA Fully OA Journal Publishers Interest Group. The views of this group do not represent the views of the OASPA membership as a whole. Much of the recent effort to transition scholarly publishing to open access1 (OA) has focused on ‘Transformative Agreements’2 that incentivize change among subscription or… Read full article >