Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output. This year, we are delighted to have worked with Delta Think who have helped us by taking on the analysis, structuring and presentation of the data we collected, and in this guest blog post they highlight our findings. This post is by Dan Pollock, Chief… Read full article >
Rate of growth for CC BY articles in fully-OA journals continues for OASPA members
Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2018_CC0 A total of 1,392,051 articles were published with the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA during the period 2000-2018, with 261,621 of those being published in 2018. OASPA members were invited to share their… Read full article >
OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady growth in CC BY article numbers for fully-OA journals
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
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, are well placed to lead the way in standardising attribution and open licensing practices. OASPA provides here a basic guide to practices… Read full article >
Panelists Discuss Attribution In OASPA Webinar
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 that goes hand-in-hand with licensing. Catriona MacCallum (PLOS) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. Leyla Williams, Events and… Read full article >