Lyrasis recently joined OASPA as member in the Infrastructure & Services (Non-Commercial) category. Lyrasis joins a growing list of almost 220 OASPA members. We asked Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives, a few questions so we could learn more about Lyrasis and the decision to become an OASPA member. Q…. Read full article >
Guest post – COPIM and community-led infrastructures for open access books: where are we now and what’s next?
This guest post is by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and COPIM Since November 2019, the COPIM project has been building community-led systems and infrastructures to support and develop open access (OA) book publishing. We’ve focused particularly on how to enable smaller and medium-sized presses to thrive in an open access world, following… Read full article >
Introducing The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE)
The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) at theplace.discourse.group is a new online public forum created for organisations who wish to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing. It has been co-developed by four organisations – Crossref, DOAJ, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). When OASPA recently asked our Scholar… Read full article >
We’re hiring! New opportunity for a Business Operations Manager at OASPA
We are looking for a Business Operations Manager to join the OASPA staff team! OASPA is a not-for-profit membership organisation comprising a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship. OASPA’s work to run mission-supporting activities is led by a small but dedicated and enthusiastic staff team, overseen by a Board of Directors. We’re looking… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #1: the APC debate, reflections and rainbows
On March 7th, 2023, 28 stakeholders from a variety of world regions came together for OASPA’s first ‘Equity in OA’ workshop to discuss issues of exclusivity and inequity within open access. The workshop was facilitated by Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle of Information Power. We are pleased to share this report carrying a summary of… Read full article >