There is increasing interest by many different actors and organisations in ‘open data publishing’ and what this actually entails. Scholarly publishers, alongside repositories, bibliometrics experts, infrastructure providers, libraries and others, have an important role to play in contributing to and supporting the infrastructure for research data publishing so that the data underlying publications can be… Read full article >
OASPA and the Initiative for Open Citations
One of the goals of OASPA is to support the transition to a world in which open access becomes the predominant mode of publication. As we have charted in the annual statistics on the growth of open content published using various Creative Commons licenses, steady progress is being made (see for example the most recent… Read full article >
Reviewing OASPA Membership Applications: OASPA’s Continued Commitment to Best Practices in Open Access Publishing
OASPA represents a broad spectrum of open-access and other relevant organisations, and we are proud to have established a community of collaborative and energetic organisations and individuals to discuss and explore business models, tools and standards in open access. Since our launch in 2008, OASPA has rigorously assessed the applications of all those looking to… Read full article >
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Introduction The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort… Read full article >
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Introduction The Committee on Publication Ethics, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and the World Association of Medical Editors are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number of membership applications from both legitimate and non-legitimate publishers and journals. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to… Read full article >