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 >
Working to create equity in open access
The world of open access (OA) academic publishing is not a fair or inclusive space as recent conversations and older conversations show. OASPA recognises that OA at any cost is not acceptable, and is mindful of inequities introduced by the current (fully-OA and transitioning) publishing landscape; in removing the paywall to read we should not… Read full article >
Developing a Healthy and Diverse OA Market
For OASPA, having a healthy and diverse publishing market is integral to our mission. We want to promote the development of diverse systems, business models and policies that support OA publishing and encourage a healthy and diverse market for pure OA publishing in the longer term. In order to shape our goals in this area, we… Read full article >
Guest post: The Fully OA agreement – an essential component of a diverse open access world
This is a guest post by the OASPA Fully OA Journal Publishers Interest Group. The views of this group do not represent the views of the OASPA membership as a whole. Much of the recent effort to transition scholarly publishing to open access1 (OA) has focused on ‘Transformative Agreements’2 that incentivize change among subscription or… Read full article >
Workshop invitation: Innovative business models for open access book publishing in Europe
Workshop: Innovative business models for open access book publishing in Europe Wednesday 7th April, 14:00-16:00 CEST OASPA is supporting the work of the OPERAS-P project which is looking into innovative, non-bpc business models to create a sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing in Europe. Following the publication of a library landscape study, investigating the opportunities… Read full article >