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 >
OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October. A coordinated approach… Read full article >
OASPA Members Show Further Growth of Fully OA Journals Using a CC-BY License in 2015 Data
Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2015_CC0 A total of 707,798 articles were published with the CC-BY license in open access-only journals by members of OASPA during the period shown above, with 160,955 of those being published in 2015. OASPA members were invited to share their… Read full article >
Invitation to OASPA members to shape use cases for attribution and re-use
Providing appropriate and accurate attribution for works that inform and inspire scholarship is core to Open Access. And, as the prevalence of particularly Creative Commons licenses grows, publishers have a valuable role to play in supporting our authors and readers in effectively navigating the complexities of whom to attribute, when, and how. OASPA has therefore… Read full article >
Nature Publishing Group Joins OASPA
OASPA is pleased to welcome Nature Publishing Group as a member of the Association. Last month NPG announced that Nature Communications will go open-access only, offering the CC BY 4.0 license by default. NPG also offers an open access option for 73 of their journals, with 38% of research articles published by NPG last year immediately open… Read full article >