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 >
Panelists Discuss New Developments in Open Access Monographs for OASPA and Knowledge Exchange Webinar
Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN), Lucy Montgomery (Knowledge Unlatched Research), and Christina Emery (Springer Nature) recently joined OASPA and Knowledge Exchange for a webinar to discuss new developments in Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Jeroen Sondervan (Knowledge Exchange) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. Leyla Williams, Events and Communications… Read full article >
OASPA and Knowledge Exchange Webinar: New Developments in Open Access Monographs
OASPA and Knowledge Exchange Webinar: New Developments in Open Access Monographs Date: Thursday 14th December, 2017 Time: 1pm GMT Other timezones: 7am CT; 8am EST; 10am BRT; 2pm CET/WAT; 3pm EET/SAST; 9pm AWST This webinar is open to the public. To register for the webinar, please click here. ‘New Developments in… Read full article >