OASPA’s fourth ‘Equity in Open Access’ workshop took place in June and was the final in our workshop series. In this workshop participants focussed on two broad topics: (1) perceptions and prestige in open access (OA) publishing and (2) pathways to funding for sustainable and inclusive OA-publishing without researcher-facing charges. Workshop participants were mainly librarians… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #4 – Part 1: money flows & trust signals in ‘OA for all’
OASPA has been working on a series of workshops convening stakeholders around the subject of how to increase equity in open access (OA). For workshop facilitation and reporting from these sessions we owe huge thanks to Information Power. Our workshops have brought together mainly publishers and librarians, but we have also been able to include… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #3: Making waves in APC & waiver practice
If you’ve been following OASPA’s work on increasing equity in open access then you may know that we’ve already convened conversations spanning >50 stakeholders from 27 different countries. OASPA is grateful to this breadth of participation across sessions #1 and #2 of our ongoing ‘Equity in Open Access’ workshop series. What can we do to… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #2: Why do professors pick paywalls?
Following workshop #1, OASPA’s second ‘Equity in OA’ workshop was held on 28 March 2023. The report from workshop #2 was published last week by Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle of Information Power. Researchers’ preferences for publishing behind paywalls was a recurring topic in workshop conversations, and our reflections on ‘Equity in OA’ workshop #2… Read full article >
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #1: the APC debate, reflections and rainbows
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 >