Following on from the recent webinar entitled Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review, we asked our speakers to summarise their talks by offering a few key takeaways, which you can find below. We also asked speakers to respond to the many questions that were posed by attendees via the webinar… Read full article >
Call for contributions for the 2020 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 2020 online conference will address open access at a time of global challenge, taking on the demands and opportunities… Read full article >
Webinar: Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review
As well as the recording above, please see this post for webinar speakers’ key takeaways and answers to attendee questions. Slides can be found here. We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore recent steps to increase efficiency and speed in the publication of COVID-19 research. Date: Wednesday 24th June 2020 Time: 3.00… Read full article >
OA Switchboard initiative: progress report May 2020
Open Access (OA) output is growing year-on-year and increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming ever more diverse, some with or without individual publication fees, some through agreements with publishers. Meanwhile, funders and institutions are expanding their requirements about how various research outputs should be published. With all of these developments,… Read full article >
OASPA Open Letter to UKRI
It is an enormous challenge for OASPA, as an organisation with nearly 150 members, to give a group response that can address specific points within the policy consultation, such as the level of challenge in complying, financial implications, or when the policy should take effect, for example. Our members represent a wide diversity of open… Read full article >