We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 10th anniversary of our annual conference, the Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP). The conference will take place on September 17th-19th, 2018, at the University of Vienna, Austria. To register, please head to our Registrations and Accommodation page. As in previous years we… Read full article >
OASPA welcomes diverse new set of members
OASPA has been busier than ever recently, with staff experiencing increasing numbers of membership applications every month. With 2018 now in full swing, we’re pleased to announce that a number of new members have joined our organisation since the autumn of last year. In the Small Professional Publisher category, we’re delighted to welcome four new… Read full article >
OASPA Endorses the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
OASPA is pleased to announce our formal endorsement of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Developed in 2012 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, DORA is a cross-disciplinary global initiative seeking to improve the ways in which scholarly research outputs are evaluated. OASPA is delighted to join… Read full article >
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Introduction The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organisations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organisations have collaborated to identify… Read full article >
New Year, New Form: Steering applicants through OASPA’s criteria
One of the goals of OASPA is to promote good ethics and best practices for Open Access publishers of all shapes and sizes when disseminating scholarly communications. Applicants are judged against a set of OASPA Membership Criteria and all new applications undergo review by a Membership Committee to determine whether the applicant is following recognised… Read full article >