OASPA Conference

OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2021

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. The conference takes place online during the week beginning Monday 20 September 2021. Please share this information and the registration link (https://oaspa2021.eventbrite.co.uk/) with colleagues who may be interested.

The 2021 online conference will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication. These include, and are not limited to

equity in knowledge and health
preprint impacts
21st-century knowledge sharing systems
libraries and pathways to transformation
publishing skills and open research
the intended and unintended impacts of researcher incentives and policies on OA

OASPA 2021 will also offer a forum for collective reflection on the ongoing impact of the pandemic and our endeavours to ensure scholarship is open and accessible to all. The event will include panels, keynotes, an extended opening discussion and lightning poster talks. The preliminary program will be available soon.

Registration fees

OASPA wishes to make the 2021 online conference as inclusive as possible. Therefore, the conference is free for

scholar/scientist publisher members of OASPA (Individuals or small groups of scientists/scholars that publish usually a single scholarly journal in their field of study.
(The publication process is often largely subsidised by volunteer effort).
Individuals who are not connected to an organization able to fund them.

If you fall into either category, please contact OASPA at info@oaspa.org for a waiver code.
Group booking discounts are available for multiple bookings from the same organization – see below.

Your registration fee is based on the size of the organization you belong to and whether or not you are a member of OASPA.
(Large organizations are those with revenue over €5,000,000).

Large non-member organization registration – €350.00
Large member organization registration – €275.00
Small non-member organization registration – €150.00
Small member organization registration – €100.00
Academic organization registration (incl. small publishers based at academic organizations) €50.00

Group registration

Organisations registering three full-rate individuals may register further (unlimited) individuals for €50.00 (€25.00 for academic organizations). Please contact info@oaspa.org for a discount code.

Full information will be made available on this page as it becomes available or you can sign up here for updates on registration details and program news.

All enquiries regarding the conference can be directed to info@oaspa.org

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors for enabling us to make the conference as accessible as possible and supporting OASPA in fulfilling its mission. Remaining sponsorship opportunities can be found here.

We are also grateful to our 2021 Conference Committee who are listed below.

2021 OASPA Conference Committee

Juan Pablo Alperin (ScholCommLab/Public Knowledge Project)

Arianna Becerril García (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico)

Leslie Chan (Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough)

Ella Chen (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Jennifer Gibson (eLife)

Raoul Kamadjeu (Pan African Medical Journal)

Tasha Mellins-Cohen (Mellins-Cohen Consulting)

Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)

Lara Speicher (UCL Press)

Graham Stone (Jisc)