The OASPA Board is delighted to welcome eLife as a full member of OASPA now with voting privileges. This open access publication, launched in 2012, is a joint initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust.
“Along with a growing number of public and private research funders worldwide, these three organizations recognise that the communication of research results is as fundamental a component of the research process as the experiments themselves”, says Mark Patterson, Managing Executive Editor for eLife. “Disseminating new findings as widely and effectively as possible maximises the value of research investments and the establishment of eLife provides a new, open-access venue for the most important advances — from basic biological research through to applied, translational and clinical studies.”
From a new publication to a publisher that started business more over two centuries ago, OASPA are pleased to also have Taylor & Francis on board as a full voting member. Taylor & Francis includes the well-known Routledge brand and has a network of offices around the world. Through T&F Open they now publish a range of fully Open Access titles and Open Access hybrids.
OASPA is delighted to announce that 12 other new members have joined us in recent months. We are pleased to be working with the following organizations as we continue to strive for excellence in standards of open access scholarly publishing:
Publishers:
Living Reviews
Open Book Publishers
Portland Press
Other Organizations with Voting Rights:
California Digital Library
Greenhouse Associates, Inc.
OAPEN Foundation
OpenEdition
Associate Members:
CLOCKSS
Emerging Theatre Research
Institute of Historical Research
Quanta
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For the OASPA Board,
Caroline Sutton, President
It is pretty astounding that that charge over $2,000 for a paper are considered good friends of open access, while a journal like Judgment and Decision Making, which does not charge, is prevented from joining because its copyright terms are slightly different from the single license allowed by OASPA, and then only to be a little clearer about plagiarism not being encouraged.
I don’t know what these do with all that money. It does not cost that much to produce a journal.
I have no insight in why you were turned down, but I suspect it is because your copyright statement (http://www.webcitation.org/6EkcWiYtE) says something like ” The consent of the author is not needed for paper copies of articles to be made for classroom use” – this implies that for all other purposes, permission is needed. That is NOT open access. I’d suggest to switch to the Creative Commons Attribution license, which does require to give credit to authors/journal, so plagiarism should not be a concern.
Nobody said that this was the problem. I might remove that phrase, since it does seem to imply what you say, although I didn’t think it did.
I will probably do what you say, but it annoys me that I have run a fully open-access journal with no author charges for 6 years, before CC existed so far as I know, and I was rejected with no explanation except that I did not use that license. Like Grouch Marx. at this point I’m not sure I would want to be a member of a club that would allow me to join.