OASPA’s fourth ‘Equity in Open Access’ workshop took place in June and was the final in our workshop series. In this workshop participants focussed on two broad topics: (1) perceptions and prestige in open access (OA) publishing and (2) pathways to funding for sustainable and inclusive OA-publishing without researcher-facing charges. Workshop participants were mainly librarians… Read full article >
Webinar – Scholarly communication’s response to the climate crisis and the role of open science
Date: Wednesday 13 September 2023 Time: 2pm UK (BST) / 1 pm UTC / 3 pm CEST Other time zones: 6.00 am Pacific Time | 8.00 am Central Time | 9.00 am Eastern Time | 10.00 am Brasilia Time | 3.00 pm Central European Time | 2.00 pm West Africa Time | 3.00 pm South… Read full article >
OASPA response to NASA RFI 2023
This is OASPA’s response to the Request for Information on the Public Access plan released by NASA on 18 May 2023. We are grateful for the opportunity to provide some thoughts, and we welcome any questions or comments. Background and introduction OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) represents a diverse community of organizations engaged… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #4 – Part 1: money flows & trust signals in ‘OA for all’
OASPA has been working on a series of workshops convening stakeholders around the subject of how to increase equity in open access (OA). For workshop facilitation and reporting from these sessions we owe huge thanks to Information Power. Our workshops have brought together mainly publishers and librarians, but we have also been able to include… Read full article >
Webinar – Shaping the Future of Scholarly Communication: The Role of Preprint Peer Review
As well as the recording above, please find the panelists’ slides and responses to attendee questions. Date: Thursday 27 July 2023 Time: 4.00 pm UK (BST) / 3.00 pm UTC / 5 pm CEST Other timezones: 8.00 am Pacific Time | 10.00 am Central Time | 11.00 am Eastern Time | 12.00 pm Brasilia… Read full article >