Declarations and Statements
- Berlin Declaration
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- The Hague Declaration
- Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles
- OASPA Offers Support on the Implementation of Plan S
Best practice guides
- Implementing a data policy: a how-to guide for publishers
- Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA and WAME are available in English here, French here, Spanish here, Portuguese here, and Korean here.
- Basic guide to best practices in licensing and attribution in open access publishing – OASPA
- Licensing FAQ – OASPA
- OASPA posts on licensing in Open Access Publishing
- OASPA posts on attribution in Open Access Publishing
- OASPA posts on Creative Commons licensing
Open Access Publishing Websites
- OASPA
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Open Access Directory
- Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
- Open Journals Systems (OJS)
Author Resources
- AuthorAid
- OA Books Toolkit
- HowOpenIsIt? The Open Access Spectrum guide – issued by PLOS, SPARC and OASPA
- Think. Check. Submit. – helping researchers to make informed publication choices
Open Access Publishing Books
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- The Access Principle – John Willinsky
- Open Access – Peter Suber
- Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future – Martin Paul Eve
Resources by Region
- Open Access publishing in Europe:
OASPA posts on Open Access news and initiatives in the European Union
- Open Access publishing in the Global South:
OASPA posts on Open Access publishing news, initiatives, and events in the Global South
Other Resources on Open Access Publishing
- Checklist for open access publishers on implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
- Covid-19 Rapid Review Collaboration Initiative information hub
- An exploratory study into an intermediary service organisation handling author fees on behalf of academic libraries – Anuar Shafiei, MBA
- OASPA posts on peer review in Open Access publishing