OASPA has been going through a very busy time on the membership front and we are delighted to welcome a record number of new members who have joined OASPA during the last twelve months. We are encouraged to see such keen interest in open scholarship and to have such a diverse array of organisations contributing… Read full article >
OASPA welcomes diverse new set of members in 2020
We are very pleased to welcome a number of new members who have joined OASPA during the last twelve months. OASPA promotes best practice and ethical standards in open access and applies rigorous criteria and in-depth review to all membership applications. In the Small Professional Publisher category, we’re delighted to welcome four new members. AboutScience… 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 >
Results of OASPA Board of Directors Election 2019
Members of the OASPA Board of Directors serve for a term of 3 years and this September three of the current OASPA Board Members reach the end of their term of service. In keeping with our annual election process, OASPA member organisations were invited to nominate a representative for consideration as a candidate this year…. 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 >