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OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady growth in CC BY article numbers for fully-OA journals

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Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2017_CC0 A total of 1,128,721 articles were published with the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA during the period 2000-2017, with 219,627 of those being published in 2017 alone. OASPA members were invited to share… Read full article >

Best practices in licensing and attribution: What you need to know

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In recent months, the open access community has called for greater consistency in licensing and attribution practices for academic research. As scholarly publishing experts discussed in recent OASPA webinars on licensing and attribution, publishers are well placed to lead the way in standardising attribution and open licensing practices. OASPA provides here a basic guide to… Read full article >

Panelists Discuss Attribution In OASPA Webinar

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Cameron Neylon (Curtin University) Michael Carroll (American University), and Ernesto Priego (City University London) recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss attribution in open access publishing — an important, timely issue for publishers that goes hand-in-hand with licensing. Catriona MacCallum (PLOS) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. Leyla Williams, Events… Read full article >

Licensing Insights: OASPA’s Twitter Chat with Timothy Vollmer

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On April 27, OASPA hosted a Twitter chat with Timothy Vollmer, Public Policy Manager at Creative Commons, on licensing. The open access community and members of the public were invited to ask Timothy any questions they had on the topic, and what followed was a wide-ranging discussion in which publishers, librarians, and advocacy organisations debated the… Read full article >