We are pleased to announce that the 10th anniversary of our annual conference, the Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), will take place on September 17th-19th, 2018, at the University of Vienna, Austria. Further announcements will be made as soon as possible via email (you can sign up to our mailing list here) and on this page when registrations… Read full article >
Spotlight on the OASPA Board: Mark Patterson
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 first of a series of posts highlighting the important contributions of the Board, OASPA’s… Read full article >
Books and the OA effect: One publisher’s perspective
This is a guest post by Ros Pyne, Head of Policy and Development, Open Research at Springer Nature. The author would like to thank Mithu Lucraft, Agata Morka and Christina Emery for their contributions to the original report. Of the hundreds of members of OASPA focussed on disseminating research through open access journal articles, few also publish… Read full article >
Open Access Week 2017: Open in order to…
This week is International Open Access Week, which runs from October 23rd-29th and aims to raise the visibility of open scholarship and accelerate research through events and campaigns. This year, the theme for International Open Access Week is ‘Open in order to…’. As described by SPARC on the Open Access Week website, this year’s initiative invites the Open Access community to answer the question of what concrete benefits… Read full article >
2 Out of 3 ‘Aint Bad. When Will Open Research Education Make it Through to Those Generating the Research?
This is a guest post by Mark Hahnel, Founder and CEO, Figshare, which forms part of The State of Open Data 2017 report, released today by Digital Science. ‘Academics want to be famous!’ Not in the traditional sense perhaps – academia has more than its fair share of introverts – but to progress their career, or win… Read full article >