The OASPA Board of Directors comprises 11 members who serve for a term of 3 years. This September four 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 >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #3: Making waves in APC & waiver practice
If you’ve been following OASPA’s work on increasing equity in open access then you may know that we’ve already convened conversations spanning >50 stakeholders from 27 different countries. OASPA is grateful to this breadth of participation across sessions #1 and #2 of our ongoing ‘Equity in Open Access’ workshop series. What can we do to… Read full article >
Launch of New Open Access Toolkit to Empower Scholarly Publishers and Researchers
OASPA and DOAJ are co-founders of The Open Access Journals Toolkit and this blog post is jointly published today here and on the DOAJ blog The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) release today a new Open Access Journals Toolkit. The launch of the Toolkit marks a significant… Read full article >
An Interview with Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press on joining OASPA
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press has recently become a member of OASPA in the small professional publisher category, further enriching the growing community of members. To gain more insight into their recent affiliation with OASPA and to learn more about their institution, we conducted an interview with Professor Tiziana Lippiello, the Rector of… Read full article >
Call for poster lightning talk proposals for the 2023 OASPA Online Conference
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 2023 online conference will encourage participants to work towards making equitable open scholarship a reality and will address many timely… Read full article >