OASPA is a founder and committee member of the Think. Check. Submit. initiative, which is helping researchers choose journals they can trust. The findings from Think. Check. Submit.’s recent survey, discussed in this press release, reveal the need for this work and will help guide development of the initiative in 2019. 19 December 2018 –… Read full article >
Panelists Discuss Open Science in OASPA Webinar
Dr Danny Kingsley (Cambridge University Libraries), Professor Christopher Jackson (Imperial College London), and Professor Eva Méndez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform) recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss open science. Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center web-hosted the webinar. Leyla Williams, Events… Read full article >
Ten Years of OASPA: Our Review of COASP 2018
The first day of our Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) at the University of Vienna back on September 17th this year dawned bright and clear, marking the beginning of three beautiful sunny days and a series of rich, paced discussions on open access publishing with countless superb speakers for our 10th… Read full article >
OASPA Member Spotlight: African Minds
OASPA’s membership is our global community of open access scholarly publishers and related organisations. In the third of a series of interviews highlighting the diversity, activities, and different approaches of our members to open access publishing, OASPA’s Events and Communications Coordinator, Leyla Williams, talked to François van Schalkwyk, Editor and Trustee for OASPA member African Minds. How… Read full article >
Spotlight on the OASPA Board: Xenia van Edig
OASPA Board Members are appointed via an annual election process and serve for a term of three years, playing a vital role in OASPA’s work to support and represent the interests of Open Access journal and book publishers globally. In the seventh of a series of posts highlighting the important contributions of the Board, OASPA’s… Read full article >